Days: Un-SORASed (Read 1,697 times)

[mikey]

I've started up a new 'history project' over on my blog that I thought might be of interest to some folks here. I'm going back through the 50-year history of Days and, using yearly summaries, rewriting it so that no characters are ever rapidly aged, thus preserving the timeline. Here's how I explain it in the introduction:

A lot of what has made Days what it is has been the timing of certain castings, couplings, and events, and if, for example, you shift the beginning of Bo and Hope’s romance to the early 1990s, you don’t have the magic of Peter Reckell and Kristian Alfonso playing a young love story that was distinctly of its original era. What I’ve tried to work out is how you could preserve a Days of Our Lives that tracks very similarly to the one we know — familiar actors, same big tentpole events and general stories — but by utilizing characters whose natural ages fit the given timelines. To stay with the Bo/Hope example, then, Kristian Alfonso couldn’t have been playing a teenaged Hope Williams in 1983, but she could have been brought on as a different character with connections to the same people, who eventually had a great love story with Bo. What follows is, in essence, a rewriting of the entire history of Days, with these changes made so that no SORASing is never necessary.

Part 1 can be found here, and I'll be adding the next decade pretty soon.

[fluffysmom]

I saw this on your blog mikey. I look forward to reading this series.

[kathyj]

mikey - is this a drinking game?

[mikey]

Jan 27, 2016 19:23:17 GMT -5 kathyj said:

mikey - is this a drinking game?

No, because you'd die of alcohol poisoning!!!

[DancingDays]

mikey - this is such an amazing, complicated project that I can barely wrap my brain around it. You are a brave man to take it on. Good luck and godspeed.

[mikey]

Part 2 is up! I tackled the 1980s all in one burst, which means we get to deal with Hope, Melissa, Jen, and Julie having a grown-up grandson...

[kathyj]

mikey - what an interesting project! I am really enjoying looking back at what was and what might have been. The 70s and some of the 80s were my favorite years.

[mikey]

Part 3 covers 1990-95. This is where things start to get pretty messy -- like how do we deal with the Carrie/Sami rivalry when Sami should still be in grade school? The solution results in a beloved legacy character having a very different personality...