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Post by Kpatch on Mar 27, 2011 12:35:30 GMT -5
This appeared in the Thumbs Up & Down section of the March 29th Soap Opera Digest.
Thumbs Down: Days of Our Lives
There are a lot of good things going on on DAYS right now; unfortunately, it’s all happening too quickly. A mere two days passed between Chloe leaving baby Parker home alone with cookies burning in the oven to her getting prescribed postpartum meds to her trying to commit suicide. Chloe’s plight is relatable and heartbreaking; it deserves time to play out, especially because it’s giving Nadia Bjorlin a chance to shine with some emotional material.
Over in newlywed corner, EJ had finally given his heart to Nicole when he passed Taylor on the pier and instantly fell for her. It’s a romantic notion to believe in love at first sight, but this is a soap: We need to see the small beats aong the way to the larger story. Leaving them out denies the viewer the opportunity to become invested, which is just a waste.
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Do you agree? Disagree?
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Post by MrsM on Mar 27, 2011 12:58:01 GMT -5
Agreed with Chloe. Could care less about EJ and Taylor any way it plays out.
On a side note when I saw the title of this thread I thought it had something to do with Big Time Rush the boy band that has a show on Nickelodeon. I was wondering what the heck they had to do with days. Apparently we watch too much kids tv in my house. Lol.
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Post by Kpatch on Mar 27, 2011 14:19:11 GMT -5
LOL, Mrs. M. "Big Time Rush" is the title given by SOD.
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Post by sportsgirl on Mar 27, 2011 14:22:26 GMT -5
In some ways I agree but in others I don't... let's see as for the Chloe story. I actually thought it was fine as is... If it went slower we would have been angrier about the terrible things happening to Parker No one was truly watching out for the both of them.. yes, she was staying at Maggie's but when the bad things happened (cookies etc) no one was home.
The EJ/Taylor... EJ gave his heart??? Um no, he has no heart especially for Nicole.. He only gave his sexual needs & the idea of Nicole taking care of the kids, to get at Sami. Heart had nothing to do with it...The love he professes for Taylor is bogus. He lusts for her, and since there is no heart for Nikki, he could care less about either one when it comes to hurting their feelings.
But for going slow... nothing can be slower than the Rafe2/Sami story... I want this sped up quickly.. like STAT!!!
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Post by MrsM on Mar 27, 2011 14:33:36 GMT -5
But for going slow... nothing can be slower than the Rafe2/Sami story... I want this sped up quickly.. like STAT!!! Amen!!! |
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Post by addictedtodool on Mar 28, 2011 11:53:05 GMT -5
Romance takes time, misery should play out quickly. Unless your name is Corday ;D
Dragging out the death of babies, funerals and the like isn't my thing, I am glad Chloe gets to do something great with her acting skills, because her talents were so wasted on the drawn out who'd the daddy storyline. Seriously all they let her do was whine when she can do THIS? Guess that was really all about Carly after all. ;D
I am with you about the love at first sight. ALthough I think it's probably because EJ does anger and bitterness better than love and Taylor just doesn't have the right facial expressions for convince me she feels passion (or anything at all) for Elvis. Or anyone else for that matter. I think that the right characters can convince me and I would enjoy them. Chloe and Daniel yes..passion. That was pure animal attraction (and I do mean ANIMAL...snort) butTaylor and EJ can't even come up with some of that. Much less EJ calling it LOVE. It's obsession, remember? He needs a dictionary.
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Post by ghoulgirl on Mar 28, 2011 12:00:03 GMT -5
That is a huge problem on DOOL. They rush the good stories and drag out the crappy ones. LOL
Don't get me wrong, Galen could NOT be doing a better job. He is amazing and has great acting chops. I am impressed how is able to differentiate between the two characters so well! He is amazing, however, I wantt his storyline over ASAP! ASAP! I can't even say that enough.
Chloe's depression/suicide attempts should have been dragged out a little longer HOWEVER, I am happy to see she is on the mend and feeling better especially because JKJ is leaving and they are having some amazing scenes together lately. I really hate to see him go when things are getting this good between the two of them!
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Post by puddleduck on Mar 28, 2011 14:10:07 GMT -5
Sometimes I swear the writers are saying 'ok let's write a story about depression. Ok did that. Now let's write a story about death. Ok did that. Now lets.....' if that makes any sense. That is why plots should be character driven and not the other way around.
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Post by Kpatch on Mar 28, 2011 14:18:48 GMT -5
Not every idea should become a story. As a writer, I throw out more than I keep. I have the beginnings of stories strewn all over my hard drive. If they aren't good (my opinion of good), you will never read it here.
Good point ATD about Daniel and Chloe. While I never liked them as a couple, the show at least spent more than a second on their love at first sight. I accepted that they were overwhelmingly attracted to each other. Never felt the love between them, but the lust, yes. With TayJ, all I feel is that the writers are trying to force me to see something I don't. And I'm a bit resentful of it. Plus I'm resentful that it gets pushed front-and-center so often. Let me ease into the story and see if I care. Foisting it on me is going to cause the opposite reaction.
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Post by jaysdelina on Mar 28, 2011 14:36:14 GMT -5
TayJ reminds me alot of what they tried to do with Mate (Mel/Nathan).There was no build to their "love story"and we were supposed to believe that all of a sudden,they had this undeniable love and were pining away for ecahother.BULL!She loved Philip all along.We SAW it happen.The hate,the like,the love,it was all there and had almost a year build up before they were married.Then BAM!She all of a sudden can't stop thinking about Nathan,he about her,and he persues her for the next year....I DON"T THINK SO!
The PPD story was great,although I WOULD have drawn it out.The last few events happend too quickly for my tastes.
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Post by Kpatch on Mar 28, 2011 14:43:03 GMT -5
Delina, you bring up another good point. Melanie and Nathan's blinding passion happened so fast, that if you blinked, you missed it. And in retrospect, I am grateful I missed it. LOL.
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Post by mae00 on Mar 28, 2011 14:58:00 GMT -5
On a side note when I saw the title of this thread I thought it had something to do with Big Time Rush the boy band that has a show on Nickelodeon. I was wondering what the heck they had to do with days. Apparently we watch too much kids tv in my house. Lol. Don't feel bad mrsm. I thought the same thing and my first thought was "PLEASE NO!!" My 7 year old son loves to watch that show and I'm worn out on it. Much like the EJ/Taylor & Sami/Rafe storylines. I love the Victor Maggie scenes. I wish that we could see more of those. I love the romance that those two have going on even for the short amount of time they are given. I know I'm in a minority here, but I could care less about Chloe. I dont' care to watch her with her constant deer in the headlight look and the whining. I realize that she is being given a wider range of storyline now, but I just can't buy into it with her because of the way she was written for so long and is now etched in my brain. I just can't keep from wondering when the poor poor pitiful me is gonna break out again - which is why I can't watch the movie Red-Line that Nadia plays in. Maybe the writers can win me over, but it's gonna be difficult. EJ/Taylor - eehhhh......they can jump out of a plane without parachutes and I wouldn't care - that storyline needs to be one of the dropped ones never to be mentioned again. EJ in love?? Yeah.........right............it's the forbidden fruit notion that he's infatuated with..... |
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Post by DancingDays on Mar 28, 2011 15:01:17 GMT -5
I think blinding lust DOES happen quickly and can become all consuming. Especially if you can't be with that person the way you want to be. They occupy your every thought and you start to believe you ARE in love with them. But then the lust fades and if you still like each other you can move on to love.
EJ does not love Taylor. He only loves himself. However, his emotional growth has been so stunted that he only knows love and hate. There is no in between.
Nathan and Melanie were stuck in the all consuming lust phase. Thankfully, Mel made it past that phase and discovered that despite the attraction, they weren't in love and she moved on.
Initial attraction can be hard and fast. That part the show usually seems to do right, imo. It's the aftermath that they struggle with.
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Post by jaysdelina on Mar 28, 2011 16:00:50 GMT -5
I get what you're saying and I do agree with some of it.For me though,I couldn't buy the all consuming phase because it just seemed to pop up out of nowhere.Almost like Mel's "No Nathan,we can't be together".I did like that she was finally saying NO,but she should have been saying it all along,and if she couldn't then she shouldn't have gotten married (Ok I can't believe I just said that!!)
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Post by addictedtodool on Mar 28, 2011 16:11:31 GMT -5
Nope. Sorry, I didn't see any lust at all between those two, much less the all consuming lust that played out between a say Daniel and Chloe or Brady and Nicole. Or even the strange EJ and Sami stuff. Mel and Nathan had a sweet kiss (maybe two?) and a bedroom scene that never played out. They had the beginnings of a sweet little love story, good boy meets bad girl, turns her aound, kinda thing. But Nathan is just no match for Philip. Sorry. That's just the way it is. Even Stephanie only took up with Nathan "in-between" her periods of Kiriakis/Brady oil and water thingie. It is what it is... ;D ;D ;D
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