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Post by mae00 on May 19, 2011 12:32:36 GMT -5
I'll pay for your plane ticket there kpatch!!! (I'm not sure where you would have to travel to or if you would have to travel, but I'd pay it regardless!!  |
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Post by fluffysmom on May 19, 2011 12:33:25 GMT -5
That would be FANTASTIC Mrs. M . It could bring back lots of viewers too!
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Post by rockfordfosgate on May 19, 2011 13:00:43 GMT -5
I'm dancing a jig (and that a reference to a line from today's episode). But really, I'm absolutely gleeful!
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Post by mikey on May 19, 2011 13:23:28 GMT -5
I'm excited, but I'm also a little nervous. I don't want to lose the showcasing of Maggie, Victor, Stefano, and Kate, for one thing, or the regular references to history -- but I'm hopeful for some exciting stories to be told!
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Post by Tom Horton on May 19, 2011 13:31:11 GMT -5
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Post by mikey on May 19, 2011 13:37:17 GMT -5
I dunno... I feel Tomlin is a big reason Days is even on the air at all. He and Frank Valentini seem to be the only EPs in daytime today who have been able to consistently run a show at or under budget. I just want someone to help him fix the damn lighting!
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Post by Trey on May 19, 2011 14:10:15 GMT -5
Passions writers...ugh. I wasn't a big Passions fan, and hated the slowness and repetition of the soap.
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Post by Tom Horton on May 19, 2011 14:15:03 GMT -5
Yes, unfortunately I just realized that too TreyDawgg and all my hope vanished along with that news. I remember that we don't see Tomlin in the same light Mikey, but I have come to detest what that guy has done to Days. I want him fired and I want it now! I'm furious to learn that he has once again brought in more Passsions rejects to finish off the show I once loved. Sorry to be the downer in the group, but until Tomlin is out, I don't see any other changes helping and this one, unfortunately looks like it will only make things worse. I'm very saddened and angry at this latest information!  Edited to explain that I meant to say I detest what Tomlin has done to Days not the man himself as I obviously do not know him ... still, I wish him really bad hair days and body odor - there I feel a little better. |
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Post by DancingDays on May 19, 2011 14:15:43 GMT -5
Passions writers...ugh. I wasn't a big Passions fan, and hated the slowness and repetition of the soap. Ugh is right. Hopefully they won't write as many weird stories as they did on Passions. I tried to watch it, but it was just too weird. It was more like a parody of a soap than a real honest one. Remember that movie "Soapdish?" When they had the brain transplant? And the guy returned from the dead after having been decapitated (ok, bad example, what with Stefano and all his many deaths). It was funny, yes, but it wasn't really true to the soap standard. Hopefully these new writers won'theck up Days like they effed up Passions. |
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Post by Tom Horton on May 19, 2011 14:20:18 GMT -5
They don't have to write weird stuff like they did for Passions. That isn't my concern. My concern is that it will be more of the shallow, shells of stock characters with equally shallow plot points that never connect or have any meaning. I'm sorry, I'll go away for a few hours and get most of this out of my system in private. I'm livid and sad, very very sad!!
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Post by mikey on May 19, 2011 14:23:20 GMT -5
I'm just going to try and be optimistic until we get some sense of what they're going to do. JER was driving that ship at Passions pretty hard, whereas these two were only a breakdown and script writer, respectively, so theoretically, their sensibilities could be much more 'normal'...
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Post by Trey on May 19, 2011 14:47:34 GMT -5
Possibly. I just hated the dialog as it was the same thing over and over and over. Outlandish stuff, yes, but repetitious and annoying. My SIL lived with me and watched the show, and I swear nothing new happened by the end of the week.
I'm with ya, Kazz.
I just got over my grudge for Galen G. from that show (as Luis, he was so annoying and obnoxious). And, now they brought in the writers who were partly responsible.
I guess I can be cautiously optimistic. I mean, everyone has early projects that they'd like to forget later in life. So, I'll give them a chance (since I can't do otherwise).
But, yeah, it definitely feels like they're trying to drive Days to the ground. And, if that's the case, I'd rather they end it with grace than as a piece of sh...
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Post by mikey on May 19, 2011 14:58:43 GMT -5
Oh, it was AWFUL. Haha. Passions was painful viewing. If we're headed in that direction, I'm very concerned...
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Post by karebr13 on May 19, 2011 15:24:11 GMT -5
here is jason47's press release on the new headwriters that was posted on the daytime royalty website daytimeroyaltyonline.com/topic/8514611/32/JASON47's PRESS RELEASE: SoapOperaNetwork.com has announced that "Days of Our Lives" head writer Dena Higley has been relieved of her duties, effective immediately. Replacing Higley as co-head writers are the duo of Marlene Clark Poulter and Darrell Ray Thomas Jr., both former "Days" writers. They become the 28th and 29th head writers in "Days" history. With August episodes already taped, their material most likely will not air until October or November, 2011. Marlene Clark Poutler began her career at "General Hospital" from 1987-1991, where she worked her way up from an assistant to the producers, then to script continuity coordinator, and finally as a script writer. From 1991-1993, Clark Poulter was a dialogue writer for "Days", and later worked as an breakdown writer from 1993-1999. From 1999-2008, she was a breakdown writer for the entire run of "Passions." In 2009, she co-created the "Swiss Family Robinson" pilot episode for ABC Family. She has been nominated for 7 Daytime Emmy Awards. Marlene L. Clark Poulter McPherson, 48, was born on August 20, 1962 in Napa County, California. Darrell Ray Thomas Jr., 46, began his career as a breakdown writer for "Days of Our Lives" from 1998-1999. He then joined Marlene Clark Poulter as one of "Passions" breakdown writers for the series' entire run from 1999-2008. He has been nominated for 3 Daytime Emmy Awards. He was born on September 26, 1964. www.jason47.com |
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Post by karebr13 on May 19, 2011 15:26:39 GMT -5
This is definitely exciting news and hopefully we can get rid of some of these new characters on the show and bring back some of the older characters who have a history on the show and write these characters the way they should be written.
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