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Tuesday, October 24th Episode Discussion
Topic Started: Oct 23 2017, 06:10 PM (8,626 Views)
lbchatterbox
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Adrienne a basket case holding Justin; Justin says he'll take her home; Justin tells Adrienne it's all over & she kisses him--BIG TIME - show ends
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sbc855
Oct 24 2017, 11:47 AM
Lovejm
Oct 24 2017, 11:26 AM
Lifetime943
Oct 24 2017, 11:22 AM
Everyone knew Marlena was off the reservation when Hattie took over her life. John knew it, Eric knew it, Brady sensed it and even Roman realized how off the charts she was being.

Sonny is off on another planet right now. Why bother doings this storyline if your not going to umbrella the fact that Sonny's mother is currently about to marry his grandfather.
Where is drunk Lucas on this one, he showed up to toast his drunk buddy Brady at the K mansion and yet he didn't bother to crash the Adrienne & Victor wedding. It's so isolated and frankly wasteful, it's sucking up airtime that I would rather see others have. Honestly, I would much rather see Maggie caring about drunk Lucas and Will possibly being alive than Victor tying the know with fake Adrienne.
We knock Brady a lot but he had way more of clue about Marlena than Sonny has had about Adrienne. I think they missed a ton of things with the Bonnie story. Most importantly any love story between Justin and Adrienne. Which is odd since that was the core of the bayview story for j&m
I think the difference really is that the Hattie story focused on Marlena and John, whereas the Bonnie story was about Bonnie, not J&A - they were merely role players for her. Ron did say in his Voldemort interview that he needs someone to keep him in line to write romance, and maybe Sheri had more input in the J&M arc, which helped that come along a lot better. Whatever happens in the next two weeks to somehow magically bring J&A together, I hope Sheri had a hand in that too, even if it won't make up for what a disservice this story was for their reunion.
I think you are exactly right about the focus of the stories. Hattie's purpose was to give John and Marlena a reunion story of sorts after all of his time offscreen. It didn't need to be very long, just enough to give them a chance to talk about their history and reestablish their love story. Then it's on to the Will story.

The purpose of the Bonnie story was, as much as I can tell, to send Lucas on a downward spiral and for comic relief of sorts. It wasn't focused on what was happening to Adrienne to any real degree (there were only a few scenes of her in prison), it wasn't focused on Justin, Sonny, or any other part of Adrienne's family. There were offhand mentions of "Adrienne" seeming different/off, but they were literally throw away lines most of the time. The focus was on Bonnie trying to maintain the charade. Which is fine, if the real end result of the story was supposed to be about Bonnie getting her comeuppance, not about reuniting Justin and Adrienne. Maybe Sheri didn't have enough input on it, but I feel like the bigger problem is Ron wanted to do a story about Bonnie. But that only works if it's set up much better (i.e. Bonnie has some relevance to the show before she takes over Adrienne's life), lasts longer (I know, I know nobody wants it to last longer but if there would have been more buildup with Bonnie really learning Adrienne's life and actually being mostly believable as Adrienne from the beginning, then the slow unraveling would have worked better), and has the audience rooting for Bonnie to be outed by the end. By doing it the way he did, we got a switch that never made a lot of sense in the first place, the middle part dragged because everybody looked stupid for not really questioning Adrienne's behavior, and then one big bombshell that - honestly - who really cares about? Does anybody really care that Bonnie "finally" got caught? We didn't see Adrienne enough, or have enough drama in the prison, to create any huge stakes for her to make the audience feel an urgency to have Bonnie exposed. I'm not saying it would have been a good story regardless because "Bonnie Lockhart takes over Adrienne's life" doesn't scream must-watch TV to me anyway. But I feel like Ron kind of half-assed this one and that just made it worse.
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JTClassicSoaps
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J&M and Family Fanatic!

This has been a watchable episode but I can't say that I'm actually enjoying anything about it.
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Heatherlynn


I loved all of it this is days
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Honestly, Ron only cared about Bonnie and the campiness that came with her. And Justin/Adrienne got lost in the story. Lucas got more focus from this than either Justin/Adrienne and that pisses me off the most. Yes, I should be grateful that they even got a story, but even as a fan I deserve better than half ass crap. This is the only couple I care about and I can’t get 1/10th of the other couples get on this show, no matter who is the writer. Granted, they are recurring, I know that plays a role, but still...it’s frustrating. Oh well... I will tune in for today’s show and enjoy what I can get.
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I am enjoying Sami a lot more on today's episode. I like her frankness about everything and trying to get to teh bottom of what happened with Will.

I'm not really an Adrienne and Justin fan, but I can imagine those that are like how he finds her in the prison. Hopefully, I'm not subjected to numerous scenes of them over the coming week.

I still can't believe Maggie just doesn't care about Victor's actions. This is so weird....
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Oct 24 2017, 11:19 AM
I'm just happy that Bonnie has been exposed. Maggie and Victor need to leave town. The Maggie I used to love would have dumped victors ass for being a criminal.
Yes, it is so weird. It's like how Maggie has changed completely into a different person.
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JTClassicSoaps
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J&M and Family Fanatic!

I'm still not here for Maggie Kiriakis, but I am glad that she at least is regularly showing concern for Lucas again.
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I am curious as to who Rolf was working for.
He alleges it is not Stefano--but he could be lying.
Andre?? That would blow things out of the water big time.
Kristen?? But why would she care about Will?
Clyde?? To help his son
Susan--as nutty as she is...who knows
Vivian is coming back...could she have done it for whatever reason
John's Made up Father
Tony
Chad and he's playing it close to the vest
Victor--connection Maggie is Lucas' AA connection
Kristen's Brother--?Peter? Can't recall his name
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Heatherlynn


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Oct 24 2017, 12:51 PM
I am enjoying Sami a lot more on today's episode. I like her frankness about everything and trying to get to teh bottom of what happened with Will.

I'm not really an Adrienne and Justin fan, but I can imagine those that are like how he finds her in the prison. Hopefully, I'm not subjected to numerous scenes of them over the coming week.

I still can't believe Maggie just doesn't care about Victor's actions. This is so weird....
Why should she care what victior did. what about what demios did to her .
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rfsexton
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With Rolf showing up on Halloween, I think announcements of his death may be premature.
Not sure just how Hope knew it was cyanide. If it was not cyanide, I am betting digitalis. I've seen it used it TV shows before to fake death.

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Half Halt


Episodes like today are why I'm sometimes embarrassed when I tell people I watch Days...

WHY didn't Adrienne say she was in Statesville first thing? Lucas, and for certain Sonny, would have told someone. Instead she just wailed and whined.....

And again someone skipped out without cleaning as they said they'd do. Sheila said she was going to clean toilets, but didn't.... lol

I'm guessing Rolf isn't dead. His corpse will disappear from the morgue. It's a given. lol

I don't care at all what happens to Sheila. She was a murderous evil psycho in Statesville. I was pleased Eli wouldn't help her, and have no shit to give on what he owes her.

Xander is on the loose. That could prove interesting down the road.

As stupid as all this was, I still enjoyed it for the most part.

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My happy takeaway so far this week is that Xander is loose. :)

That's all I got.

I realized I was looking forward to Sami's return and now I'm looking forward to her exit. She doesn't work for me outside of a couple because she needs balance.
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Heatherlynn


rfsexton
Oct 24 2017, 01:15 PM
I am curious as to who Rolf was working for.
He alleges it is not Stefano--but he could be lying.
Andre?? That would blow things out of the water big time.
Kristen?? But why would she care about Will?
Clyde?? To help his son
Susan--as nutty as she is...who knows
Vivian is coming back...could she have done it for whatever reason
John's Made up Father
Tony
Chad and he's playing it close to the vest
Victor--connection Maggie is Lucas' AA connection
Kristen's Brother--?Peter? Can't recall his name
Chads not involved he's wills best friend and Vic would never hurt sonny
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Lifetime943


Is it possible that the Halloween episode is just all a dream. Rolf appears because it's a dream. Steve gets bad news about Kayla because it's a dream. Chad or Abby hear Ben has escaped because it's a dream. Serena & Paige appear because they are in the dream.
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Lifetime943
Oct 24 2017, 01:47 PM
Is it possible that the Halloween episode is just all a dream. Rolf appears because it's a dream. Steve gets bad news about Kayla because it's a dream. Chad or Abby hear Ben has escaped because it's a dream. Serena & Paige appear because they are in the dream.
That's what I think. It even sounds like a standalone from the spoilers since they don't tie into anything else that week.
Edited by Lovejm, Oct 24 2017, 01:54 PM.
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Mitchapalooza
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^ My face watching DAYS

concerned
Oct 24 2017, 12:54 AM
Every time I see the name Sheila I get excited.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyFGuDnPzZE

and then I remember its T Boz.
What's wrong with T Boz?
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Heatherlynn
Oct 24 2017, 01:17 PM
Jess-
Oct 24 2017, 12:51 PM
I am enjoying Sami a lot more on today's episode. I like her frankness about everything and trying to get to teh bottom of what happened with Will.

I'm not really an Adrienne and Justin fan, but I can imagine those that are like how he finds her in the prison. Hopefully, I'm not subjected to numerous scenes of them over the coming week.

I still can't believe Maggie just doesn't care about Victor's actions. This is so weird....
Why should she care what victior did. what about what demios did to her .
Some people are capable of caring about more than one thing at a time.
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Rosebud
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I’m having deja vu to Marlena’s 1991 return every time I see Sami in that gawd awful pantsuit!
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When Rolf stabbed that big syringe into dead Will I was almost expecting to see his eye go open.
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