Swine (Read 763 times)

[susala]

Pigs! EJ and Stefano and their conversation about Taylor. OMG. First, Rafe2 raping Sami with their blessing. Now, Stef advising EJ to scratch the itch??? In otherwards, use Taylor to meet his needs, regardless of how it will effect her emotionally? And Nicole. What swine.

Then the scenes with Stephanie, Dario, Melanie, Daniel. Good grief. Who acts like this? The desire to have "revenge" on others, punching people out, Melanie telling Dario she promises to make his life miserable, Stephanie's catty gossiping, Daniel and his fists???
They seem to make being vindictive, manipulative and hurtful their whole purpose in life. Talk about ego-centric.

They are all nuts. And then we have the Brady/Titan takeover. And crazy Viv. Immoral Kate and evil Stefano. Are Maggie, Victor, Jennifer and the teens the only ones with any saving grace? I'm about ready to give up on the show.

As I already stated...who acts like this???

[Pallison]

I missed today's episode so will have to watch tonight....
EJ and Stefano have always been chauvinists to the highest degree and always will be...they have always been immoral, arrogant and always will be....nothing new there.....and unfortunately, there are men who feel the same way they do...I've run across a few in my life...not so much anymore though......the whole thing is very sad, very sad indeed......
Melanie is an idiot, a young immature idiot....and I'm sure there are alot of those everywhere.....I've known even bigger idiots than Melanie....
Stephanie is a nasty character, determined to make everyone as miserable as she is and the whole time thinking her poop doesn't stink....lots of those around too....as a matter of fact, my youngest grandson's stepmother is one of those.....aaaggghhh...!!!
And Daniel and his fists...we are back to men being men....let me add, not all men are like this, but way too many are......another sad state of affairs.....
I think the problem is we have to watch them all together on the same day, every day.....sometimes it just gets to be a little too much....I used to get angry about it all when I watched the show, now it just saddens me......

[susala]

Hmmm. This pops up as a new topic. I wonder why it doesn't say "new" like the others?

[Tom Horton]

^^ I'm not sure I understand the question? Do you mean that the little envelope icon that reads "new" isnt' showing up when view this thread on the main board page?

[susala]

Yes, the little blue "new" icon, when viewed on the New Topics page. Not a big deal, just curious.

[DancingDays]

^^^The "new" button shows when it's new to you. If you've already read it, it isn't new, so the button goes away.

[Tom Horton]

Thanks Susala for the response - the answer to your question is what DD said.

[susala]

Duh. I guess I've been watching too much days and stupid is catching. Thanks Kazz and DD for your responses.

[Kpatch]

Now that I've seen the episode, I've got to agree with susala. I found myself quite annoyed. There is no one to root for. Everyone is angry at everyone. The most romantic couple on the show these days is Maggie and Victor, and they're not on near enough. Oh, and Bo and Hope are getting good.

But Philip's days are dwindling and he's on maybe once in two weeks. Poor Faye is a plot point. All the other would-be couples are in the building stages and they are uninteresting. EJ/Taylor, Chad/Abby, Melanie/Dario, Daniel/Jennifer (okay they are mildly interesting). And don't get me started on Rafe2/Sami.

I've been watching Days for decades and nothing is going to make me stop watching, but I sure hope they do something soon to make viewing a more pleasurable experience.

[jaysdelina]

No one to root for?I guess it's really in how you look at it all?I'm rooting for Nicole to get some brains where Satan...I mean EJ's concerned and kick him to the curb.I'm rooting for Viv to get at least SOME comeuppance....Rooting for Taylor to quit bein' such a tramp,Rooting for Mel and Dario to keep kickin' eachother's butts cause quite frankly,I enjoy seeing her fired up....Hmmm....the rest,not so much,lol.OH!And I'm really rooting for Steph to take her broomstick out of Salem real soon! *grins*

[sportsgirl]

Has anyone here ever watched The Sopranos? It was believed by the mafia men that is was natural to have girlfriends while you were married...Tony Soprano had them all the time while Carmella lived her life with all the money they have.

The DiMera's are run somewhat like the Mafia, so it is natural that Stefano had tons of lovers & now EJ will have his.
So in essence the writers got it right in this case.

I don't like it but then again, it's not real.

[Kpatch]

Interesting observation, sportsgirl. You made me think about my favorite nighttime show, Mad Men. Most of the men at the ad agency are married and having affairs or flings. My favorite character is Don Draper and he's the worst of the bunch in terms of being unfaithful. If he were a real person, he would disgust me, but as a fictional character, I love him.

[DancingDays]

I agree kpatch. I sometimes feel that since we see these characters everyday and always with new shows they are more "real" than other shows. Once I remind myself that Stefano is just as real as Tony Soprano, or heck, Joey from Friends, I'm able to just enjoy him as a character.

[Tom Horton]

Just speaking for myself but the way Days writes characters now, I find them much less real than characters on other shows so for me it's more that the characters have no balance. They are either supposed to be super "good" and therefore judgemental and prissy or they are so bad they are downright gross. Don Draper is a jerk but he has tons of dimensions ... and it fits with the time period and circumstances. Likewise, if I'm watching a mob-based drama I have certain expectations that should not be part of a soap opera. If the Dimeras were written as merely ruthless in their business dealings and unfaithful to their wives but had a "code" of sorts and did truly value family in their actions as opposed to mere lip service, they would be a lot more interesting to me. If there were some known reason for Stephanie being a little witch or if she only acted that way in one aspect of her life but was shown as caring and selfless in another, I'd probably like her also. Same goes with lots of the other characters, if they had more "realistic/balanced" development and intereactions with one another, I think we might be disappointed in them from time to time (just like in real life) but there would be more good from at least most of them to balance it out. It would also help if we knew their motivation from time to time ... and not just some completely out of left field declaration from another character that Daniel Jonas is "such a good man" for example when there is nothing in his behavior to back it up.

[addictedtodool]

Good comments. I agree, everyone is just not happy in Salem these days. Could be that the triangles have just wrought so much misery, it will take decades to get over it And sadly enough the new characters brought in to spice things up are just not very interesting. Can I getJed back...he was at least easy to look at. I think Jed and Melanie would make a VERY good couple. Or make it interesting, bring Jeremy back and keep Stephanie. We could watch her go truly bomkers and taken away in a little white suit. It's the stupid idea that Melanie, all grown and mature enough to forgive her mom and Chloe and just about everyone else in Salem apparently, not to mention physically weak and emotionaly devastated after losing her baby would be chasing a stupid little twit like Dario all over town. It's dumb to the 10th degree.

On the other hand, Brady is miserable, but I want to watch him endlessly. Endlessly. I could probably do a whole week of Brady interacting with other people, no matter who they are right now. So for me, it's about the writing and it just plain sucks for so many of these characters,