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Interesting/Spoilerish Tweets, Week of 7/23; Twitter/FB list in first post
Topic Started: Jul 23 2012, 07:45 AM (46,610 Views)
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granolagirl
Jul 29 2012, 09:02 PM
tomsawyer
Jul 29 2012, 08:42 PM
Matt
Jul 29 2012, 08:27 PM
I wish they'd have a hot, smug guy character who was simply unappologetically sleazy. Not bad. Not asshatty. Not evil. Just sleazy. Unforutunately, they have soap characters either treat you like a saint of the devil incarnate. There are no other characters. Hell, I wish they'd start writing actual characters instead of giving the actors fake names and lines to say.
I agree with all of this. And Daniel could be this character. Kind of Chris K. for the new millennium.
He's already most of the way there. It's not so much what Daniel does that needs to change, but how other characters react to it. (That and the "Jonas family"/eggbaby stuff.)
He really is. I wish they'd just have everybody else treat him accordingly. It doesn't have to make him a bad guy - just more of a lovable lothario - think Mark Sloan on Grey's pre-Lexie.
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Matt
Jul 29 2012, 08:27 PM
I wish they'd have a hot, smug guy character who was simply unappologetically sleazy. Not bad. Not asshatty. Not evil. Just sleazy. Unforutunately, they have soap characters either treat you like a saint of the devil incarnate. There are no other characters. Hell, I wish they'd start writing actual characters instead of giving the actors fake names and lines to say.
That is what I'm tired of on this show. More than anything. Bad guys, need to just be bad guys. If they are good actors or written correctly then people will end up enjoying the character. You don't need to "like" every bad guy. They either want over the top bad guys that you roll your eyes out or they want everyone to be a bad guy with a heart of gold. Some people are just bad people. And every good guy doesn't have to be PERFECT! We will still love our favorites if they are flawed. We don't have to always believe their intentions were good. People make mistakes.

Dan as the flawed doctor who thinks he loves every patient and sleeps with all of them is just not working. Daniel that just wants to screw every attractive woman that he comes across...I could deal with. He doesn't need to have all of these things that make him sympathetic. Why can't he just be some guy that likes sex and doesn't need "love" all of the time? He could be the town asshole, but because he's good looking and a doctor people could keep falling for it anyway. It could build tension between the families of the women he sleeps with because they could be warning all of the women. If they go the Dannifer route again, I hope he comes on to Abigail and Brady knocks his teeth in. It would be in Jennifer's character (nuJennifer) to think Abigail is lying when she claims that Dan came onto her when she was walking around in something sexy not knowing Dan was there. Brady and Dan are basically family so there's conflict. Daniel doesn't need to be some over the top psycho, just a pervert that people realize is really perverted!
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Dreamer
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I have absolutely no use for Daniel. He can be a doctor, but I'd much he just be seen and not heard. Dr. Sleaze is just that, making his rounds out of all the Salem women. What good is that? Who want's someone like that? If Jennifer can be destroyed by Dannifer, I'm all for Dope..... TPTB can screw this character over too, it will show fans that they are playing fair, aggravating all fanbases. LOL!!! Dan has no business in Salem, it is old news TPTB don't want to hear.
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DiMeraFan67
Jul 29 2012, 09:53 PM
And every good guy doesn't have to be PERFECT! We will still love our favorites if they are flawed. We don't have to always believe their intentions were good. People make mistakes.
Yes! One of the things about the 80's (that I think they could easily carry over to today) was the conflict between the good guys. One of my favorite scenes will always be Drake's Roman punching out Steve for saying Kayla was just a roll in the hay (which he had his own reasons for saying at the time). You knew where both characters were coming from, and it had so much impact because they and their relationships were well defined. I don't know why Days insists that all the "good" characters get along all the time. It's boring, and artificial. /rant
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Matt
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I've been watching a LOT of foreign soaps lately (in fact, it's become my obsession to watch the foreign English language soaps) and the thing that I'm most struck with with the British soaps is that their shows are LOADED with characters. Everyone seem *so* distinctive and, more often than not, natural and realistic. The closest British soap to US soaps would have to be Hollyoaks because it's the "young pretty people" soap (too often, TOO young since it's historically a "teen" soap), but they've got a bad boy bad guy right now who is really what EJ should be (although not rich, but a crime figure prone to violence and yet charming and popular with the audience -- and gay!). I really wish EJ were written more like Brendan Brady. Brendan even has a pornstache. I would love NBC forever if the started importing foreign soaps. I'd killed to have DAYS followed by Hollyoaks at 2pm and then Australia's Home & Away (fully of pretty surfers) at 2:30. I'm all about some Heath & Bianca right now.
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Dreamer
Jul 29 2012, 09:55 PM
I have absolutely no use for Daniel. He can be a doctor, but I'd much he just be seen and not heard. Dr. Sleaze is just that, making his rounds out of all the Salem women. What good is that? Who want's someone like that? If Jennifer can be destroyed by Dannifer, I'm all for Dope..... TPTB can screw this character over too, it will show fans that they are playing fair, aggravating all fanbases. LOL!!! Dan has no business in Salem, it is old news TPTB don't want to hear.
If Daniel embraces his inner manwhore, it would be different than what he had with Jennifer. The problem with Dannifer is that they tried to make it about "love," but there is nothing about Daniel that makes him worthy of someone like Jennifer, who already has a soulmate. But if they had Daniel as a rather immoral cad who used Jennifer's vulnerability during Jack's absence to get in her pants, it would have been something different. Is it unrealistic that a lonely woman, angry at her true love, might sleep with a hot guy who is just begging for it? I don't think so. Then, when Jack returned, the conflict could have been over her decision. Why did Jennifer need a man? Maybe Jack would have assumed there was more to Jennifer and Daniel because he could never envision his wife just having a meaningless fling. But when they tried to convince us that Jennifer's fling was true love, the entire storyline failed.

They just need to admit that Daniel is sleazy with women. At one point, it might have worked to make him out to be a man who wanted true love but had screwed-up ideas about how to get that so he slept around. But that would have required him to grow emotionally over time. Since there have been no consequences to his sleeping with patients, his past affairs are not "mistakes" from which he has learned anything. So it may be too late to write him in a redeeming fashion.
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maverick
Jul 29 2012, 03:15 PM
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Jul 29 2012, 02:48 PM
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Jul 29 2012, 02:17 PM
Supergirlx2
Jul 29 2012, 02:12 PM
KJAlfonso: What would u like to c Hope involved in or with whom ; ) ?
https://twitter.com/KJAlfonso/status/229654732598292480
Geez. Give us a week to get over Bo, mkay?
I bet she has a meeting with the writers about her character coming up, and is looking for some good ideas


what sucks about this show right now (when you compare it to say 6 years ago and before..is that people had JOBS and worked at those jobs and we had storylines AROUND those jobs..sure we had actual romance that didn't just involve a love scene and then some bedhopping among other couples (not on the scale we have now :rolleyes: ), but we had far more compelling stories of characters working together instead of it being TOLD to us in passing.. I mean what is the point of that, other than to be lazy.
I have the same problem when I watch. I get irritated that they are missing so many potential storylines by not making people go to work. My only theory is that they can't afford the sets, but hell, I wouldn't care if they worked from home as long as it made for good tv.
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donnie_turner
Jul 29 2012, 07:19 PM
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Jul 29 2012, 07:05 PM
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Jul 29 2012, 02:36 PM
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Jul 29 2012, 01:22 PM
KJAlfonso: At the gym working out treadmill 1st then weights ; )) my reading material is ; )) so gooddddd http://lockerz.com/s/229393489
https://twitter.com/KJAlfonso/status/229642804224217088

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Who's Berman?
Thanks for posting Kristian's tweeted scripts....So they are working tommorrow? Thought they were dark...
Nice to see Maxine again . So she said things are getting good,and aren't always as they appear many twists and turns...hmmm...Hope & Daniel..;lol.. Wonder who she will end up with??
Could it be possible that Johnny is Lucas's son? I see his name on the script, as well as EJ, Sami, and Nick. Maybe Nick will reveal that Johnny is Lucas's son.
Sami isn't there.
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These are odd characters and places to try to put together. At least we know that younger set will all be together. Who's in the hospital now?? Daniel gonna get him a new "patient"?? lol
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The Deidre Hall Fan Page

Blast from the past!!

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http://www.facebook.com/DeidreHallFanPage
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hopefully the next new writers will finally listen to fans and daniel and rafe will be murdered by the the wood chipper with no hope of a return! lol
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