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SOD: Days recasts Will Horton
Topic Started: Dec 7 2009, 01:05 PM (8,477 Views)
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Kenny
Dec 7 2009, 01:11 PM
Let's hope a Mia recast is on the horizon...
Yes Taylor Spreitler and the kid who plzyed Will were the most god awful teen duo on soaps.
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Kenny
Dec 7 2009, 01:33 PM
Oh well. Anyone beats Dylan Patton.
Not Christopher Gerse :P
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Mason


I hope with this recast comes different writing for Will, as well. Lucas and Sami's son should never be this bland.
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I wonder if Dylan at least got a heads up a few weeks or days before or did he get the Felisha Terrell?
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I hope with this recast comes different writing for Will, as well. Lucas and Sami's son should never be this bland.
Word.
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Matt
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You know, I've always felt sorry for Gerse. I never thought he was bad (hell, Will was pretty much just an accessory for Lucas & Sami during his entire run), but he had to entire those awkward teen years under the scrutiny of psycho Days fans who had nothing better to do than slam a kid for being a kid in his awkward years. Patton, however, was only cast because he was pretty and TPTB obviously thought he'd made their tween demo wet their panties.
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SocRMum1
Dec 7 2009, 01:14 PM
Whoa! I can't say that I saw that coming. He didn't seem any more awful than the rest of the teens to me. Casey Diedrick has been very good - the rest, not so much.

I have to say, though, I think a lot of the awfulness of the character of Will comes down to the writing. It's hard to believe they want to write Lumi's son as such a goody two shoes.
I agree. CD is the only standout, although the girl playing Gabbi seems like she has potential.

Hopefully the new Will has more of an edge.

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Mason
Dec 7 2009, 01:37 PM
I hope with this recast comes different writing for Will, as well. Lucas and Sami's son should never be this bland.
Not at this young age, anyway. Later, in his 30s, he will be boring as fuck.
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As long as he has better hair, I could put up with anything!
Very interesting being involved in a new story...wonder what is coming up???
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Alligato
Dec 7 2009, 01:45 PM
Very interesting being involved in a new story...wonder what is coming up???
I'd love it if he went psycho and killed Mia. :)
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i think hes really cute, looks more soap esque- also looks alot like micheal from general hospital
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Gabbi is the only one out of the teen set I think is any good. Chad is annoying as fuck and I'm not seeing this marvelous marvelousness of Casey Diedrick. Mia is unwatchable 90% of the time and Will is useless. Will, however, is a legacy character so since we're stuck with him hopefully the recast + better writing will make him more interesting. I kind of don't think he's necessarily going to be getting story; it might just be a polite way of saying they needed a better actor if they were going to keep Will on canvas at all.
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Matt
Dec 7 2009, 01:41 PM
You know, I've always felt sorry for Gerse. I never thought he was bad (hell, Will was pretty much just an accessory for Lucas & Sami during his entire run), but he had to entire those awkward teen years under the scrutiny of psycho Days fans who had nothing better to do than slam a kid for being a kid in his awkward years. Patton, however, was only cast because he was pretty and TPTB obviously thought he'd made their tween demo wet their panties.
That kid got slammed a lot in part because of the writing for Will at that time. All he did was show up periodically to bitch about his parents, then disappear to wherever they were hiding him.
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Come on Ron, We are counting on YOU !!

Mason
Dec 7 2009, 01:45 PM
Alligato
Dec 7 2009, 01:45 PM
Very interesting being involved in a new story...wonder what is coming up???
I'd love it if he went psycho and killed Mia. :)
lol
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I could care less if the Will character disappeared entirely. All he is is a support character who isn't really even needed. and to the person who said that Will's character is way to bland to be Lucus and Sami's kid.... so true... but then again, he was raised by Carrie .... the most BORING character ever to come through Days..... and her equally boring hubby Austin. I'm hoping the fact that they felt with the new storyline came the need for a different look, it means we are going to see a little less of either a complete snot like Will used to be or a complete goody two shoes that he is now, and little more of the boy who SHOULD have been created by Sami.... maybe just maybe, we'll be getting the REAL Samantha Brady back.... no more of this phsudo Carrie..... and it is unrealistic for her to have such a wimp for a son
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Aww, I never thought Patton was awful. Aside from scenes with Taylor Spreitler, Patton was okay. Hopefully this new kid is better though because Will should be the main teenager right now since we know him more than the other three. He should be able to have chemistry with all of them, so that we can start liking them as well. Please tell me this recast is the result of a severe change in writing for Will and he's going to become a total badass like his parents.

The new Will actually looks more like a product of Alison Sweeney and Bryan Dattilo anyway.
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DrewHamilton
Dec 7 2009, 02:02 PM
The new Will actually looks more like a product of Alison Sweeney and Bryan Dattilo anyway.
He reminds me a bit of Drew Garrett from GH.

I still say the best Will we ever had was Darian Weiss. He looked just like the child of Sami and Lucas.

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I agree about Weiss. I'll never understand why went from him to Gerse.
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I do think Dylan is a good actor, especially in sad scenes. I think he did very good when Grace died. But in other scenes he didn't really stand out. He was always just there, talking!
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DrewHamilton
Dec 7 2009, 02:07 PM
I agree about Weiss. I'll never understand why went from him to Gerse.
Me neither. That move never made any sense to me. Darian was a good child actor. Some of his work is on YouTube and it looks like he only got better with age.
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The new actor looks older than Dylan Patton. It's going to make the Will/Mia scenes even more awkward.
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