38 minutes ago, TEdgeofNight said:

Yeah but I was looking for an actual answer.

She gave you an actual answer in the linked post.

True that no exact date has been given yet so I gave my answer based on Janet's last day of May 2 and how that figures in @JAS0N47 's estimated production schedule.
I, too, would like to know the exact date of when Maxam's co-EP episodes first start airing officially. But as I said, his influence seems to have already been there, per the focus on Stefano's ring. So the "official" date might not mean much? Of course, perhaps the focus on Stefano's ring was just a Janet/Paula/Jeanne thing. I found it interesting that it means something to Maxam.

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1 hour ago, ranger1rg said:

She gave you an actual answer in the linked post.

Correct. An answer saying “I don’t know the answer”.

Yep. I gave a reply but it was not an actual answer.
And yes, since I don't know the answer, it might have been better for me to say nothing.

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Well, I certainly hope Noel Maxam is able to pull these aimless stories together. DAYS is suffering from the same problem as BTG: there's nothing there that I would call a potboiler storyline (although, TBF, BTG is still more entertaining on a daily basis).

23 minutes ago, Khan said:

Well, I certainly hope Noel Maxam is able to pull these aimless stories together. DAYS is suffering from the same problem as BTG: there's nothing there that I would call a potboiler storyline (although, TBF, BTG is still more entertaining on a daily basis).

The thing is, at least BTG has the right people in the stories; they just suck at the stories, that is.

Days has nothing going on with characters that have outlasted their time on the show..

53 minutes ago, janea4old said:

Yep. I gave a reply but it was not an actual answer.
And yes, since I don't know the answer, it might have been better for me to say nothing.

I don't think you need to apologize for anything. You gave an approximate date. Someone who needs more can hit the Google.

24 minutes ago, Khan said:

Well, I certainly hope Noel Maxam is able to pull these aimless stories together. DAYS is suffering from the same problem as BTG: there's nothing there that I would call a potboiler storyline (although, TBF, BTG is still more entertaining on a daily basis).

I agree with that. It's all really aimless, with nothing that says "I have to watch tomorrow." It's kind of unreal as to how lacking it all is. This is streaming TV?

-- Please get Susan off my screen.

-- Please get Leo off my screen.

-- If this is the version of Dimitri we're going to get, please get him off my screen, too.

-- I'm so disgusted that this show gives us gay characters who are such ridiculous jokes.

We're in Mid-February and PC & JMF scripts starting airing in April 2025. They have done a TERRIBLE job. How are they still employed??? Watching today's episode is excruciating.

2 hours ago, Khan said:

Well, I certainly hope Noel Maxam is able to pull these aimless stories together.

I have a bit of hope that Noel Maxam can pull it out of the bag as an executive producer; I feel like Janet was named co-executive producer as a "Hey, we're getting rid of this abuser, and you're leaving us in X time, so why not go out as a co-executive producer?" and she didn't have the tools in her arsenal to really pull that title/role, whereas Maxam does, as he's been co-EP at DAYS before.

Regarding the writing and pairings, etc., I recall reading...somewhere...as one example, that Paula Cwikly was all in on Brady/Sarah and Xander/Gwen. All well and good.

But the trouble is, the audience doesn't seem to be. Other boards (sorry, SON! LOL! But I still love you!) used to have pages of discussion. Now, if there are five posts, it's note worthy. Add in that some have said that Days isn't always in the Top 10 at Peacock these days, and something has to give. I hope Noel Maxam can light a proverbial fire under things. Right now, everything and everyone seems so aimless. There are no stakes, no reason to tune in.

This is not to say I want Ron Carlivati back, but there must be a happy medium between the joke of an atmosphere under Ron and the boring slog the show has become with the current writing team.

Which bringss me to another issue (spoiler)...

And with the exits already mentioned, I would have actually kept Jeremy and allowed him to be reinvented (which, in a way, he seemed to be. This Jeremy didn't 'read' as horrible stalker/domestic abuser!). The show has so few male Hortons, and he could have been paired with someone.

I'll even be controversial and say this EJ has been treading water. Dan F. (I won't even try spelling his last name) seems like a cool guy, but EJ doesn't seem necessary as of now. I'd cut him, hell, most of the DiMeras, IMO. To me, they should have never become a main family.

Spoiler box ahead again for character mention...

But Jeremy Horton is, to me, just another symptom of the main issue: Hiring people without any real plan, wasting them as they linger with no real direction, then discarding the actors with some actual potential while keeping characters that are long past their 'sell by' date, so to speak.

Another example? Peter. Never a big fan of the character, 1.0 or 2.0, but he did have the history and potential. Instead, after decades away, he returns in a blink and miss moment and is then presumably killed. What was the damn point there?!

Do I have all the answers? No, obviously. But then, I'm not being paid to. These people behind the scenes, on the other hand, are. And they need to figure things out. Fast.

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