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| Dreamer | Jun 29 2012, 09:32 AM Post #141 |
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If Jack has to die or go missing again, I don't want him to ever return to Salem to find that Jennifer has moved on for the umpteenth time with another "replacement". TPTB had their chance to finally write a compelling SL for JnJ and they blew it. Jack and Jen could have easily been written for and woven into other SLs. Without Jack, Jennifer clearly has no place in Salem......looking down the road, what story is their for her. A Dannifer redo, is just that, a redo, we've seen it, done it, been there, and don't need to go back there. Dannifer had nothing but a sub-par relationship of kissing and cuddling. Dannifer are not soulmates, they were barely bed buddies. Dannifer will never replace Jack in Jennifer's life, no matter how hard TPTB try. Jennifer needs to be shipped off quietly and quickly. IA that her character will be attacked in almost any new SL that remotely comes near another suitor. Will she gets sucked into the "Kristen" SL? I don't see it. I'm secretly hoping Jennifer spends all her time to mourning Jack and that she finally finds him by November Sweeps and JnJ spend a final HORTON traditional x-mas together, before they ride off into the sunset at the end of MR's contract. If MA is not asked back by August.... then this theory is not viable and my time spent watching DAYS is not either. |
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| annie21 | Jun 29 2012, 11:05 AM Post #142 |
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They'll probably have Jennifer get pulled into the "Melanie's kidnapped and missing" storyline. This will bring her back into contact with Daniel and they can re-unite over concern and sympathy. She'll quickly become more consumed/worried about Melanie's fate and too busy to properly mourn Jack. :shame: If only they would let Jennifer finally go off the deep end after yet another round of "Jack's dead/dying/presumed dead." She would fully be entitled to lose it and go the route of her mother into mental illness via inconsolable grief. But the writers aren't interested in her character. They're interested in optics. They think Jennifer and Daniel look good together. So that's all that counts for them. |
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| Dreamer | Jun 29 2012, 02:43 PM Post #143 |
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I see your point. I think your comment on DAYS focusing on "optics" is true, whereas fans are more interested in good storytelling, character relationships and character growth. Given this past year, perhaps "optics" is all we got and all we may ever get. |
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| DesignatedShelley | Jun 29 2012, 04:17 PM Post #144 |
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I'd love to see Jennifer just lose it, as a harrowing fulfillment of the mental illness she always feared inheriting. But why hold my breath. I'm not one to harp on Missy Reeves' looks or age, but honestly, if it's eye candy they want then Danloe and Danicole top Dannifer in terms of NBC's preferred asthetics. Dannifer is ... cute. But Danicole is hot, Danloe was hot. I don't even understand this because Dannifer has maybe 9 fans total. I think Missy's very pretty, but I've never seen the chemistry between her and beefcake types, she comes across as more delicate and classic or something to me. Frankie was a smart guy, Jack was a smart guy, I suppose even Peter had a touch of class. But Brandon? Colin? Patrick? Daniel?? I just don't see it. I don't want Missy to not be on the show, per se; ideally I'd like some storyline where she's maybe going off the deep end but is also convinced that Jack is alive and keeps putting everything into looking for him, and all the while everyone else thinks it's just her mental illness taking over and consuming her, something like that. I'd also really like to see her with Lucas, or Hope and Kayla and Adrienne. And I don't judge Jennifer for being emotionally dependent but the storyline needs to call her out on that and let her character grow past it. It should be a good story, how she's managed to keep on ticking through so much loss but underneath everything she's still an abandoned little girl who can't handle being alone. I don't think that would make her a pathetic character, just an interesting and human one, but it has to be acknowledged by the writing. And she needs to change to be a dynamic character instead of just inspiring protective feelings in men because she's cute and blonde and crying. Plus, I actually do care about Jennifer as her own character. I want her to be well developed, and part of my insistence has to do a lot with the fact that she's a female character, that she started out much stronger than how she's seemingly ending, which I find really hard to watch. But knowing that it's unlikely that they'll view her as more than a love interest, I'm really just bummed. I can sympathize with her mourning but it's so repetitive at this point, and it's just wasting time considering how long this show is likely to go on for (not very long). I think as long as she has scenes with her family I'll watch those. Deep down I long for a revisit of the Bill Horton And His Progeny saga. I didn't even mind the election stuff, it was a little hokey but I really liked Jennifer being interested in her career again and I thought the idea of the good girl doing bad things for good reasons had potential. But I won't be watching Dannifer or most any other pairing they could think up for her. Soon the only guy I'll be able to care about on this show that isn't related to Jennifer is Abe, and it's not like Kayla, Hope and Jennifer can all share him. I can watch her without Jack and I can watch her having a storyline that invokes Jack, but I can't watch a romantic storyline that invokes Jack only as the angst upon which the new romance will build its alllure. If they want to do a new romance storyline for her, I'd need them to just leave Jack the hell out of it, but they can't since his exit is going to equal some sort of tragedy for her since they did the whole insta-reunion thing. So I'm hoping that they'll change their tune but I'm expecting they won't, and I'm not going to have the energy to care any more if/when it becomes clear that they don't. They care so little about Jack and J&J (and arguably Jennifer's true character but obviously that's a different degree of indifference than what poor Jack gets) that there's no way to reason with them. They just don't care, and they probably won't care until the show is canceled and they feel obligated to tie up loose ends, if even then. This show makes me sad. |
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| Kyrai | Jun 29 2012, 05:01 PM Post #145 |
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:( I'd much rather Jennifer die than Jack. He's a better actor and much more interesting... Really bummed if this is true. |
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| bomber | Jun 29 2012, 05:38 PM Post #146 |
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After reading the interview and as others have pointed out, it's probably not the writers to blame for Jack's low-key demise. it sounds more like NBC/Sony are calling the shots and the writers are just following orders. All the more reason to keep up twitter campaigns etc. if we ever want to see Jack back.
Edited by bomber, Jun 29 2012, 06:05 PM.
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| eugenie | Jun 30 2012, 07:10 AM Post #147 |
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When a show cuts its best male actor and features dolts like Chad and Chin, it's officially hopeless. Add the never-ending SamiSaga and it's worse than hopeless. It's begging for cancellation.
Edited by eugenie, Jun 30 2012, 07:11 AM.
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| Dreamer | Jun 30 2012, 08:37 AM Post #148 |
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I hate that DAYS didn't write for Jack and Jennifer. Doesn't make sense to ax it, when so many wanted to see it play out. The PTSD stuff was some of DAYS' best stuff by far since the reboot. It was a fresh topic that warranted more play. Yes, I want MA to come back, but not years from now. MA needs to come back for November sweeps or for Feb 2013 sweeps at the latest. I do not want to be teased about a possible return, I want solid confirmation. |
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