10 hours ago, Liberty City said:

As of right now, none, unfortunately. Wasted opportunity.

Michael Roark was the best casting the show had done in a very long time, and they totally squandered it. If he'd been cast as a Dimera and not a Horton, they would have kept him. I don't understand how this show fails to write for Horton legacy characters but can bring a Dimera back from the dead more times than I can count.

40 minutes ago, 1974mdp said:

Michael Roark was the best casting the show had done in a very long time, and they totally squandered it. If he'd been cast as a Dimera and not a Horton, they would have kept him. I don't understand how this show fails to write for Horton legacy characters but can bring a Dimera back from the dead more times than I can count.

From my point of view, I think it genuinely came down to Jeremy being a desire of Janet and Noel did not want to keep the character. That's what it came down to in my eyes.

Getting rid of Michael Roark is nuts. This will be followed by a huge cast purge of young actors in a few months.

Just cancel this show already.

Link to the Cwikly/Ford interviews from one year ago when their writing began airing. Note that they say they'll bring in Hortons.
https://boards.soapoperanetwork.com/topic/68710-days-cwiklyford-the-new-writing-team-interviews-with-spoilers/#findComment-2016493

Okay so what Hortons did they bring in, and which ones did they keep?

They brought in Hope, Will, and Ciara (and Ciara's children) for several episodes around the time of John Black's passing. They brought in several Hortons for the anniversary week in November -- some aired for only a couple of days.

Jennifer has been popping in from time to time all year. Jeremy aired for 6 months.

Lani & Eli, and their children Jules and Carver -- popped in at Christmas and recently returned, not sure how long they'll be here this round?

It seems that the only Horton they brought in to keep was Will's daughter Arianna, and then same character recast.

What permanent Hortons are on canvas now, in addition to Arianna? Julie, Shawn-D, JJ, Thomas, and Charlotte all live in Salem. Jennifer is a periodic visitor. I'm unclear whether Eli and his twins are staying? (sorry I'm behind on following everything).

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Some of us speculated that they might make Liam Selejko the son of Ivy Selejko and Mike Horton, which would have made Liam and Jeremy brothers. Selejko is such an unusual surname, that has to be intentional. It seemed obvious, yet there was no reveal and Jeremy is gone. If it were true, then Liam's son would be another Horton, too.

Ivy's brother(s) and father were criminals, in some sort of gang. When Liam's background was told to Abe, it was said that Liam came from some unfortunate circumstances (and didn't know how to read). Maybe he's the son of Ivy's brother Snake or Speed?

Bo enlisted the original Theo Carver (Abe's brother and Theo's uncle) to help him defeat the gang the Selejko family was in. The elder Theo could be considered by the Selejko family to be responsible for their downfall, so it would explain Liam bullying the younger Theo in high school. But none of that has arisen in any dialogue in the past six months.

How old is Liam? Well they are saying he bullied Theo in school. He's clearly close in age to Theo (just unclear how old Theo is now) . I suppose Liam could be older.

I think the Theo/Liam age span is clearer than whatever Gabi said on April 15 about her having known Theo since school.

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