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| Weekly Discussion: Dec. 14th - Dec. 18th | |
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| PhoenixRising05 | Dec 16 2009, 02:00 PM Post #141 |
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I liked the way Nicole remembered the boots and the way they froze the flashback as she tried to piece together how to describe them to Rafe. That was a great! Kudos to Noel Maxam, who directed today. He always does neat stuff like that when necessary. Little Sydney is adorable! I really liked Melanie and Philip today. I'm glad they showed them just hanging out and enjoying each other. The EJ/Arianna stuff got interesting at the end with him "rescuing" her in a way. They do have serious chemistry. I hope they go there. A decent episode. Sort of slow in spots but not too bad. |
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| TINA222 | Dec 16 2009, 02:01 PM Post #142 |
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Im sorry but those boots looked like something a drag queen would wear. :lol: |
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| Sindacco | Dec 16 2009, 02:05 PM Post #143 |
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I still think they should have kept Victor as the drug boss. |
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| PhoenixRising05 | Dec 16 2009, 02:32 PM Post #144 |
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Well, it's hard to tell at this point because we still have no idea where this story is going. It's clear it's building to something. It may be a EJ/Arianna pairing (which I hope for). It could play into the EJ/Stefano feud, which is heating up. I think the story has potential but it also had potential with Victor. I'm fine with it at the moment, as long as they still play the Victor angle, which they do tomorrow with Brady confronting him about him being involved. |
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| jane1978 | Dec 16 2009, 02:32 PM Post #145 |
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They are doing really good job explaining while Phillip wants to be with Melanie so bad. She is like his private sanctuary, totally unrelated to all Vivian, Kate, Kiriakis stuff he has to deal with on daily basis. They were really adorable together but I really wonder what the show wants to do with them because sometime it looks like a classic story where Mel does the wrong choice, Phillip hurts her yet again, she will finally choose Nathan only to discover he meantime moved on with Steph, and sometimes it looks they are putting enough effort in them they could actually have a future together even with the rushed relationship and Spoiler: click to toggle coming on.Either way, I love this new Phillipīs attitude with both his mums. So funny. And I canīt wait till Phillip and Mel will announce their big news after christmas. I think the reason why I have no problem to accept Phillip/Mel together is he is not acting as 32 old adult anyway. He is still just a spoiled rich boy with good heart and if the show had bigger budget I think he would be wearing sunglasses and riding around the town in his Porsche convertible impressing the girls left and right. The scenes around the baby kidnapping are good for building mystery but they sort of lost impact when we already know who the kidnapper is. Bad SOD, bad. :D The drug dealing story seems really derailed. Itīs obvious they had plans for good story with Ari and Brady working together against the drug boss only to reveal the boss is Victor, but they had to scrap it after Vivian came back and they needed Victor free and chipper for the Carly story. I think involving EJ is a good move, but I hate how they know Victor used to be the boss yet itīs not big deal for them or the police because he sold the business few weeks ago when the ground got hot. And of course itīs funny Salem has two big mob-like families which pretty much controls every shady business in town, yet the police has a hard time to quess who the boss is. Still, it has a potential especially if EJ realizes Ari is working undercover. Iīm starting really like Steph and Nathan together and I hope they will give them something interesting next year. Maybe when the Vivian against Carlyīs daughter story gets hot they could get involved somewhat. I definitely hope no matter what happens with the qudrangle Nathan will atleast get some from Stephanie. Itīs not fair Phillip already had both girls and Nathan nothing. |
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| PhoenixRising05 | Dec 16 2009, 02:37 PM Post #146 |
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I agree. I understood his reasons before because, like you said, Philip is still immature but I think all the craziness of the past year, especially currently, in his life only makes Melanie look even better to him. I'm not quite so sure the drug story got derailed. They knew about bringing back Carly and Vivian long enough in advance to avoid having to change the story. I think they are just dragging their feet because I'm convinced it's going somewhere. They've spent too much time on it for that not to be the case. |
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| IMissAremid | Dec 16 2009, 02:59 PM Post #147 |
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After all... tomorrow is another day!
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This mystery woman score is so damn creepy! Has the show ever used it for anything else before? I mean... it is getting a bit much day after day but it's still not annoying me as much as GH's use of "Mad World"... yet. The drug story's obnoxious. Why are they having this crap going at the same time Sydney is missing? I mean Sydney's possibly dead or fell down the bottom of a well or something and EJ is meeting with his top narcotics lieutenant? I hope that means EJ is behind the Sydnapping, because at least then it would make sense how he can go about his everyday business while all this crap is going on. And it would be great if EJ turns the tables on Arianna and gets her sent back to prison as revenge on Rafe and Brady, and the bonus can be one less Borenandez on the canvas. EM and LH may have been good as Therethan but Brianna just don't have *it* especially when the show has so completely sold the line that Brady loves Nicole 100 percent truly and unconditionally so I think she's pretty worthless at this point when I'm not seeing any EJ-Ari chem either. Phelanie are super duper cute but GOD. Stephanie is such a BITCH. Where is this coming from? Before today I was enjoying the hints at Stethan but her going off on Nathan for no reason took them a major step back for me. Poor Nathan. Maybe he can get some loving from Carly? Victian is so adorable. :wub: I love Viv getting him drunk. And Vivian-vs.-Kate is so beautiful. Oh I have missed this the last decade. :lol: at the cuts to Victor's face as he watches them volley their insults back and forth like it's a tennis match. Phillip sure does have a screwed up family though. No wonder he was always fixated on boring-ass Belle and is always trying to build a new family for himself (aside from the dumb throwing away Tyler/Pocket ordeal).s AZ is phenomenal generally but even a miracle worker like her can't make Rafe's scenes tolerable for me. Unless they would've had Nicole whittle something down into a shiv before he got there and then shank him through the bars. Then I could have enjoyed the scenes. :D I am so confused about Stefano's order to Kate to warn EJ and how he will never see Sydney again. I think Stefano is a red herring, but they are really laying this on thick. |
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| TINA222 | Dec 16 2009, 02:59 PM Post #148 |
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I think Brady's Nicole obsession is going to push Arianna out the door. Who will be waiting? EJ. He is going to use her to get back at Brady. But in true soap fashion will start to have feelings for her. |
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| Sindacco | Dec 16 2009, 03:00 PM Post #149 |
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To me it felt like a rewrite when Victor sold the business to EJ. I don't think that was the original plan for the story. |
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| IMissAremid | Dec 16 2009, 03:10 PM Post #150 |
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Whether it was a rewrite or a botched story all along, it seems like things happened out of order or weren't developed properly. Like it would have made more sense if there was more buildup with us seeing Victor conducting drug business and then having to make excuses when he was afraid Brady was getting too close to it or almost getting involved in it (Rather than just making Victor a mean cockblocker messing up his relationship with Arianna) and seeing him being torn about Brady being involved and that being the motivation for him selling the business. Then there could have been more development of them figuring out what Victor was up to that involved them investigating the thing in the course of more than one episode. |
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| Sindacco | Dec 16 2009, 03:15 PM Post #151 |
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I haven't watched todays eppy yet so I'm not sure I know what score you're talking about. But Days usually don't play the same score more then once in an episode. |
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| DrewHamilton | Dec 16 2009, 03:22 PM Post #152 |
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They really need to do something to Melanie's style if they're going to be serious about Philip and Melanie. The other day, when Melanie met Vivian, she looked a lot older and it had to do with the way her hair was styled and the outfit she was wearing. She looked more mature and I could believe Philip and Melanie as a couple. However, today, Melanie's hair was styled way too "teenish or young girl" for me. If she were in a story involving the other teens, or just Stephanie and Nathan, her hairstyle and outfit would've been perfect. However, she was in scenes with Philip and when she's in those scenes, they need to work on making her look more mature, otherwise, Philip just comes off as creepy like he did today. |
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| IMissAremid | Dec 16 2009, 03:52 PM Post #153 |
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Maybe my music terminology is not right for what I am calling a score, but they have the same creepy menacing lullaby music happening around the beginning of today's episode as we see mystery woman with the baby and then again at the end of the episode while Nicole is alone and thinking about mystery woman's boots. Anyway... what I meant when I asked if they ever used it before is had they used it for any other storyline before this or is this some entirely new music. Like I know every once in a while they'll bust out the old Santeen melody background music and sometimes you'll hear old creepy stuff from the Possession storyline. |
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| PhoenixRising05 | Dec 16 2009, 03:55 PM Post #154 |
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You could very well be right. I just don't get why they would do that, especially since it did seem well thought out how they transferred control over to EJ. They took the opportunity while Stefano was in a coma and while EJ was taking care of things to have Victor come to him and make the offer and EJ accepted. He was suspicious of Stefano at the time and wanted his own side venture. It all fit together nicely but I suppose it could just be a nice way of rewriting and salvaging. Days has gotten better about rewriting and making sense of things this year. I guess we'll see in the next few months as the story develops. If it continues to meander, then it will be obvious there was a rewrite for sure. |
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| PhoenixRising05 | Dec 16 2009, 03:56 PM Post #155 |
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It reminds me sort of of the Princess Gina saga score. |
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| Miss Rhi | Dec 16 2009, 04:04 PM Post #156 |
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This was my favorite part of your post..... :P |
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| Halloween Family | Dec 16 2009, 04:30 PM Post #157 |
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Yesterday's Show The Good -As bad as Operation Annoy Stefano To Death was, it gave Joe M. a chance to shine. He had some good lines about Rafe giving up the FBI so he could have sex with Sami and the kick to the gut statement about Sami's inability to keep her pretend daughter alive. Joe M. did a wonderful job showing Stefano drained of energy and pensive at the jail. Also, I guess a small silver lining was that EJ was right about the wire. -Chloe looked striking in that blue dress but her eyebrows still look funky. At least Brady's eyebrows look good now. -They are doing a good job with Nicole's look right now in jail. Her makeup is progressivily more subdued like she slept in it and her nose was all red like she had been crying all night. EJ is looking like a wreck too. Props to the actors and makeup people. Sami's hair was styled pretty with nice makeup. Thank goodness the bra wasn't that ubiquitous salmon colored bra. Hope was pretty too. -Nice flashback for Bo and Carly. Both CC and PR look better with age. I can't get over how good looking CC is. -Bo is right. Hope probablly couldn't be trusted with the secret anyway. When Hope was talking with Vivian, it look like she about to sell her soul to the devil. -As much as I hate the job they have done with the whole Brady is an Addict thing. I'll give them some sort of credit for having Brady recognize he's addicted to Nicole. -Lindsay Hartly was a good choice for playing a drug dealer because her backstory is that she did it in college so it makes sense that sometimes she looks overwhelmed. it's not like she's this big bad drug dealer but they do need to develop her character more in order for it to meld together better. -Nadia did an excellent job looking conflicted when she went to see Nicole. I wish Nadia would make a bigger effort when it comes to her acting, I see glimmers of talent and maybe she just needs to hone in on it. There are times that I get the impression she's not taking this gig seriously. The Bad -Just let Brianna die already! -Troy got a bad version of Nathan's hair. -The scene where Stefano rips open Sami's shirt was A W F U L on Sami's part. :puke: -Maggie and Justin are a regular pair of hens. Edited by Halloween Family, Dec 16 2009, 04:34 PM.
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| Halloween Family | Dec 16 2009, 05:03 PM Post #158 |
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YOU STOLE MY EMBRYO! you don't hear that said everyday. lol |
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| Sindacco | Dec 16 2009, 05:24 PM Post #159 |
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I don't remember them using music from the Possession story. I always notice when they play old scores in scenes. Phoenix mentioned Princess Gina. During the Ava Vitali story in 2008 they used some scores from the Gina story. Earlier this year during the K/D war they used some from early 2000s. And I mentioned this a while back, when Rafe was on the pier and Stefano's hitman came up behind they played another old score. They play old scores from time to time but I would say it's rare. I will watch todays eppy tomorrow and I will see/listen what music it is in the kidnappers scenes. It could be something new. I noticed a new score last week when Nicole escape from the hospital, it was pretty good. |
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| jane1978 | Dec 16 2009, 05:39 PM Post #160 |
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You mean the piece when Nicol escaped and was hiding in the supply room looking for some clothes to change into? I noticed it as well. That was great track. Very intensive and suspenseful. |
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