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SOD: Days questions answered!; August 6th issue
Topic Started: Jul 26 2012, 12:56 PM (23,464 Views)
trojangal
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Does SOD actually come up with scoops or breaking news anymore or do they pretty much stick to PR dept approved interviews
& whatever info they are given from the show's PTB ?
Edited by trojangal, Jul 26 2012, 11:31 PM.
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JamaicanBeauty7
Jul 26 2012, 11:18 PM
concerned
Jul 26 2012, 10:35 PM
TribeHines
Jul 26 2012, 10:16 PM
I will believe Sami is not EJ's first choice when the following happens:

1. EJ holds a loaded gun to his head and contemplates suicide over the thought of losing Nicole.
2. EJ and Sami have sex and EJ calls out Nicoles name
3. When Sami says Why is it always Nicole Nicole Nicole


For now agree to disagree. :)
I will believe Sami loves EJ when

1. She tells him she loves him
2. She has no clothes on when they make love.
3. She doesn't have a back up option waiting in the wings.
Well (2) is already completed in May '08. One down, two to go!
My mistake all i could remember was the pink pyjama set.
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trojangal
Jul 26 2012, 11:29 PM
Does SOD actually come up with scoops or breaking news anymore or do they pretty much stick to PR dept interviews
& whatever info they are given from the show's PTB ?
They get scoops, but it seems like they can't ever post them until someone else (an actor on twitter usually) slips up and breaks it first.
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concerned
Jul 26 2012, 10:51 PM
Liz<3Days
Jul 26 2012, 10:44 PM
concerned
Jul 26 2012, 10:40 PM
AngelOB
Jul 26 2012, 10:32 PM

Quoting limited to 4 levels deepany sort of resolution incredibly difficultAll Nicole would have to say is "I want you back EJ" ...DONE!
I didn't watch when Nicole was with Eric.

What's their back story?

The only clip I have seen she is pretending to have cancer so that he will sleep with her (which doesn't exactly scream soulmate).
Sami hired Nicole as a model for Bella magazine. Eric was the staff photographer. They fell in love for each other. Her sister also had a thing for him. Nicole was always insecure of her past and in the end dumped him for 5 mil for marrying Lucas.

The time Ive heard AZ talk about Eric, she's called him Nicole's first love.
So was he interested in Taylor?

How long were they together before Nicole dumped him to marry Lucas?

Did she ever tell him the truth about he past or was Brady the first to find out about it?
Taylor was interested in him. Eric left town before the whole story came out, but Nicole dropped big hints about what happened and he didn't hold it against her. He even slept with her on the side while she was married to Lucas, but being a good guy, he felt bad about it and eventually left town.

They were together for a few months, but it was serious - they got engaged.
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Geovanne


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Jul 26 2012, 01:30 PM
I give up this show just keeps getting worser and worser....I refuse to even watch the horror that is forever the Days of Sami, EJ, and Will Lives.
I quit watching and nothing in this summary makes me what to watch. I am not ever going to watch tomorrow's big cliff hanger.
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MissLola
Jul 26 2012, 10:27 PM
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Jul 26 2012, 10:26 PM
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Jul 26 2012, 10:18 PM
sassyblonde
Jul 26 2012, 09:41 PM

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But he called Lexie "Lexie" and not Alexandra. Does that mean he didnt really care for her? :shrug:
Actually he often called her alexandra especially early on
Yes and he also refers to Nicole as "Nicole" to her face, not always Nicki.
I liked EJ calling her Nikki. It seemed more personal & close. :wub: Brandon always called her that too. :wub:
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TFP. I liked the article quite a lot. I found it strange that there was no mention of Nicole though.
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I just read the entire JS article. IMO it doesn't read anything like the summery did and it's clearly brand new.

ETA: by brand new. I'd guess the last 1-3 weeks
Edited by Shadow, Jul 27 2012, 12:26 AM.
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outrageous
Jul 27 2012, 12:03 AM
TFP. I liked the article quite a lot. I found it strange that there was no mention of Nicole though.
It's possible the truth is she really isn't relevant to EJ's SL anymore, especially if she looses the baby.
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Jul 26 2012, 11:22 PM
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I don't understand why you feel the need to be mocking about this. I think MOST of the "interview" or quotes are probably old. That doesn't have to mean that I think ejami isn't happening. My opinion of those quotes has nothing to do with writing direction and really nothing to do with the show at all. If you don't agree, fine. I've laid out the reasons I think they're old, and IMO I gave some pretty legitimate reasons.


I don't understand the disregard for certain quotes while not disregarding others. PR's interview about his exit is in here. So when was it done? It's new.

Galen talking about his character direction coming up, going through a shake up after the Olympics, also new. That's not under Mar Dar.

We may be seeing GT's work for the first time now, but these actors has been working with them for months. At the Emmy's all the actors talked about the writers, they were talking about GT when asked about the work they were doing. GG and the actors tweeting about their scenes, it's GT they're talking about.

I don't understand why quotes are picked out pulled out from this article as suddenly the actors quotes are from back in March and it is under MarDar. How is Galen talking about a shake up for Rafe under Mardar? .

They may not be from July 20th, sorry but for SOD to go get quotes from March or before that even is reaching a lot. The quotes could be from the Emmy red capet, but it's still under GT and still relevant to what we are seeing now and will be seeing post-Olympics.

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And I've seen several actors ask us to write in for more air time for them. Obviously the ones you listed aren't doing that because they're on all the time right now.


Exactly, because they're happy with their airtime.

The quote I was replying to was implying with no basis at GT and BD were BFF's and have no problems anymore and that BD was happy. How do we know that GT and BD have no problems anymore? Lucas is being written worse than ever. BD is saying he had no story this summer (jobless, homeless, something else), he's hoping they bring on Autumn for him and asking for more Lucas on twitter. But that means he's happy and GT loves him. I don't think so.


Well the wardrobe department sure hates BD.
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i did not get why everyone think JS and AS fought to ej and sami to be pair up they only fought as best for ej and sami not pair quickly which its not really the same

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Alison Sweeney and I have gone great gone to great lengths to protect that facet of these characters.we really argue against the relationship moving quickly

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Jul 27 2012, 01:26 AM
i did not get why everyone think JS and AS fought to ej and sami to be pair up they only fought as best for ej and sami not pair quickly which its not really the same

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Alison Sweeney and I have gone great gone to great lengths to protect that facet of these characters.we really argue against the relationship moving quickly

I think people were going on the summary. I saw a scan, and the article posted online and it reads differently to me than the summary. They would have to be discussing a "relationship," and how Sami and EJ will be "getting together" before they could talk about pacing in relation to their history.
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Jul 26 2012, 10:12 PM
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Jul 26 2012, 09:56 PM
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Jul 26 2012, 09:41 PM
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Jul 26 2012, 09:22 PM

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That's an easy one, he looks at Sami in a way that makes me melt. He loves everything about her He looks at Nicole like a piece of fine A. He could have had Nicole if he was willing to leave everything behind like his kids and Sami but he said NO. Lastly he always calls those he cares about by their full name like Samantha never Sami, William never Will but its Nickie not Nicole to her face. She is great in bed and doesn't challenge him but shrinks from him in an argument because she knows she doesn't have even a piece of his heart. When I see EJ look at any other woman like he looks at his Samantha then I would believe he loved that person. JS saves those looks for Samantha which tells me he is an Ejami fan or he would have looked at Nicole the same way and he never did.
I really don't see it. I've watched and compared old clips and James doesn't seem to play these Ej/Sami scenes up like he used to. JMO.
It's a shame you're not watching (according to your banner). You would have seen some absolutely incredibly hot sexy scenes between EJ and Sami this week and last. The way he's looking at her is like old times, only better. ;)
Ain't that a fact, we've seen some great old school EJami.

Love it.
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Jul 27 2012, 03:04 AM
Partnersincrime
Jul 27 2012, 01:26 AM
i did not get why everyone think JS and AS fought to ej and sami to be pair up they only fought as best for ej and sami not pair quickly which its not really the same

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Alison Sweeney and I have gone great gone to great lengths to protect that facet of these characters.we really argue against the relationship moving quickly

I think people were going on the summary. I saw a scan, and the article posted online and it reads differently to me than the summary. They would have to be discussing a "relationship," and how Sami and EJ will be "getting together" before they could talk about pacing in relation to their history.
i did read the full article from paper that quote i posted before from the real article not the summary.
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For some reason JS is holding back in EJ's ardour for Samanther. He's is spending all this amount of time and has yet to make it obvious to me that he truly wants to be with her. The fact that he still tells Sami that his plan really was to spend the rest of his life with Nicole (if only she would change her mind), he hasn't deviated from that plan. He's "waiting" for Nicole to say the magic words or whatever and he'll be back to his normal self (plotting and scheming merrily along). Why is he so sad and appearing lonely he's hanging out with two of his attempted murderers? Because in boosting their egos (Will is attracted to the 'power' and money, Sami just likes the attention of a hot blooded alpha male even when she has wonderful guys laready warming her bed, she has never changed in this regard) they are boosting his.

The things EJ is saying to Sami he has said to Nicole time and time again during their on and off for the last four years. He screwed up royally and she dumped him subsequently, so he needed someone to fill that Nicole has held for four years (Nicole has always believed in him, believed he could do great things, believed he was a wonderful person despite his flaws, she has encouraged him, supported him at almost every cost because that is what she wanted to do for him) and hence the incredible wtf'ery every scene with EJ/Sami because before March 2012 this type of relationship between them was non existent.
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Jul 27 2012, 05:04 AM
For some reason JS is holding back in EJ's ardour for Samanther. He's is spending all this amount of time and has yet to make it obvious to me that he truly wants to be with her. The fact that he still tells Sami that his plan really was to spend the rest of his life with Nicole (if only she would change her mind), he hasn't deviated from that plan. He's "waiting" for Nicole to say the magic words or whatever and he'll be back to his normal self (plotting and scheming merrily along). Why is he so sad and appearing lonely he's hanging out with two of his attempted murderers? Because in boosting their egos (Will is attracted to the 'power' and money, Sami just likes the attention of a hot blooded alpha male even when she has wonderful guys laready warming her bed, she has never changed in this regard) they are boosting his.

The things EJ is saying to Sami he has said to Nicole time and time again during their on and off for the last four years. He screwed up royally and she dumped him subsequently, so he needed someone to fill that Nicole has held for four years (Nicole has always believed in him, believed he could do great things, believed he was a wonderful person despite his flaws, she has encouraged him, supported him at almost every cost because that is what she wanted to do for him) and hence the incredible wtf'ery every scene with EJ/Sami because before March 2012 this type of relationship between them was non existent.
The "for some reason" has already been explained in the article.
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He continues that the buildup to characters' getting together is what is the most powerful, especially characters with a history which includes lying and betrayal, like theirs does. He says that he and Ali Sweeney have asked that the relationship not move quickly because of this.


You're right, EJ has said that his plan WAS to spend the rest of his life with Nicole, you know like around 18 months ago, his plan was to be with Taylor for the rest of his life, or years before to be with Sami or the rest of this life. Essentially in that statement he made to Sami, his plans changed. He slept with Sami, Nicole (rightfully) believes that it's always Sami, Sami, Sami. In fact, when he was talking to Sami, he was describing how he was losing everything but he didn't know what he would do it wasn't for her[Sami]; essentially, Sami was the one person who stuck around for him when everything in his world was falling apart. We'll have to agree to disagree on EJ waiting for Nicole to say the magic words since last week he was pretty focused on getting Sami to say some magic words.

I'd agree that he's told Sami and Nicole the same thing but that he said the same thing to Sami first. He pursued her first and gave his ode to her for a significant period of time before Nicole even came onto the scene. The thing about EJ's relationships with both women, and JS has alluded to this in a interview not too long ago, is that he gets different things from them. First comes along Sami, the love of his life as EJ had stated several times, and goes after it HARDCORE. Of course, Sami doesn't bite, one of the many reasons being that she doesn't accept him. In comes in Nicole in 2008 and she accepts and loves him for him. That's great in EJ's mind, he's getting something from her that he couldn't get from Sami. But of course, even though he thinks he has what he wants and believes he can even love her at least close to how he loves Sami, his love for Sami always pulls him back into her orbit. It has shown in several ways over the years, ranging from dreams to recently grief sex. I personally think EJ wants both: an encompassing love with someone who understands him and accepts him. Who doesn't. IMO, the fact that he is alluding to it to Sami, and her slightly awkward reaction to it leads me to believe that he'll get both pieces with Sami soon. Hell, she even went to verbally encourage him to make a run for it by saying that's he's EJ Dimera for goodness' sakes, someone who has done anything and said anything to get what he wants, etc. It's not "ILY EJ for exactly who you are" but it's good step in the right direction for Sami. Still, this is just a spec and really I can't say for sure if it's going to happen; I'm not writing the show but that's what it looks like it's heading to me. I guess we'll have to wait and see how things shake out.

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No wonder NBC is struggling with both their daytime and night time lineup. Idiots are at the helm. And DAYS keeps promising to deliver and they fail everytime. I am sure that some are tickled pink at this article while others are ready to pull their hair out. But the cold hard fact remains that it is not working. And ratings show it. Does Corday really think that fans are going to continue to watch when so much frustration is evident. Fans have already made a mass exodus and it just seems that it is more of the same. And he is doing absolutely nothing to change it. And this is why his ratings aren`t budging. They keep playing the same angle with their different writing regimes, hoping it sticks. And for six years their A-focus has been the EJ-Sami story. It`s been a long stream of intelopers tossed in as they`ve tried to sell the story, talent being wasted in the process, and storyline potential just overlooked in favor of contrived plots. I don`t have a horse in the ejami vs. Lumi vs. Safe races. But i do think that a lot of opportunities have been wasted for lucas nicole rafe and anyone not involved in this looonggg drawnout so called ejami saga. Frankly rafe nicole and lucas deserve better. And why any of them are willing to stand and wait for ej and samis crumbs is just ludricous. There are more fish in the sea as they say. And i say that to the writers. As for james scott wanting it loooonnngggg and drawn out, let me put it to u this way bud. U have almost taken up close to a decade of my beloved show with your so called story and i am sick of it. And get this writers, if u have all this hot chemistry with them, u do not have to be scared to put them together. That would be like the writers being scared to put bope, jarlena, jack/jenn, shane/kim together. But then again they dont come anywhere close to these legendary pairings. Not even close. All i know is that i don`t want ejami hogging up the screen when eileen and greg come on or when everybody elses story begins. The stats need to change on the monthly episodes rating charts for sure. Well the show goes on and maybe just by slim chance things will get better. But i am not all that hopeful.
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Come on Ron, We are counting on YOU !!

lazydazes
Jul 27 2012, 07:04 AM
No wonder NBC is struggling with both their daytime and night time lineup. Idiots are at the helm. And DAYS keeps promising to deliver and they fail everytime. I am sure that some are tickled pink at this article while others are ready to pull their hair out. But the cold hard fact remains that it is not working. And ratings show it. Does Corday really think that fans are going to continue to watch when so much frustration is evident. Fans have already made a mass exodus and it just seems that it is more of the same. And he is doing absolutely nothing to change it. And this is why his ratings aren`t budging. They keep playing the same angle with their different writing regimes, hoping it sticks. And for six years their A-focus has been the EJ-Sami story. It`s been a long stream of intelopers tossed in as they`ve tried to sell the story, talent being wasted in the process, and storyline potential just overlooked in favor of contrived plots. I don`t have a horse in the ejami vs. Lumi vs. Safe races. But i do think that a lot of opportunities have been wasted for lucas nicole rafe and anyone not involved in this looonggg drawnout so called ejami saga. Frankly rafe nicole and lucas deserve better. And why any of them are willing to stand and wait for ej and samis crumbs is just ludricous. There are more fish in the sea as they say. And i say that to the writers. As for james scott wanting it loooonnngggg and drawn out, let me put it to u this way bud. U have almost taken up close to a decade of my beloved show with your so called story and i am sick of it. And get this writers, if u have all this hot chemistry with them, u do not have to be scared to put them together. That would be like the writers being scared to put bope, jarlena, jack/jenn, shane/kim together. But then again they dont come anywhere close to these legendary pairings. Not even close. All i know is that i don`t want ejami hogging up the screen when eileen and greg come on or when everybody elses story begins. The stats need to change on the monthly episodes rating charts for sure. Well the show goes on and maybe just by slim chance things will get better. But i am not all that hopeful.
I agree and I know I've criticized Corday on many occasions. He's known to have flat out lied about some things, but at least THIS particular time he seems to have absolutely no control or a very limited amount of control over his own show. It does appear like NBC is calling the shots from everything from storyline dictates to who they feature and why. To me that spells even more disaster because NBC doesn't give a flying fuck about Days of Our Lives....if they can't even get their act together and make Today a success again....or fix their prime time lineup that is suffering badly, then what makes anyone think that they actually know what daytime viewers are looking for? I've convinced that NBC stepped in to do one thing and one thing only...make the show so horribly bad that they will have the excuse to cancel it. The only saving grace at that point is the Corday has a chance then to shop the show around and try to get it picked up by another network, since he could easily blame the cancellation on decisions imposed by NBC which he had no control of and had to go by. Problem with that is that we know NO network is going to likely want to pick up Days. So in the end, IMHO Days is toast one way or another.
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Well I think Ejami has never been given full-on root for writing before now. I think and hope the writers are trying it now. Maybe it will help the ratings. Maybe it won't. But at least it will have been tried. It makes no sense to me that it hasn't been tried yet. I wish I knew the backstory on why not. I'm not into debating numbers, but they have a fanbase. I don't get why there would be resistance to trying any coupling that might help the show, from Tptb or from fans of the show. I ended up not liking Safe, but I gave them a chance. Same for Ejole and even ejaylor (well, I only watched Ejaylor on YouTube, but I gave them a chance).
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Come on Ron, We are counting on YOU !!

brazen
Jul 26 2012, 10:39 PM
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Jul 26 2012, 09:53 PM
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MarDar's been gone since March.

ALL the actors interviews dating back to the Emmy's and prior has been all about GT.

As for JS and AS, they're basically the Maurice Benard and Steve Burton of DAYS. They`re going to state their preferences no matter who the writers are so they can be catered to and get what they want. No matter who the writers are they`re going to get the same amount of airtime because of who they are.
We could go around in circles about this.... The scenes that aired in march were filmed in December, or january, those were the ones that had Ejami going from hate to friend overnight. Mardar were very much at the helm. The stuff we are seeing now is what was filmed in late April when tomsell was transitioning in. But as we've been told by a variety if sources including Jason the cliffhanger is mardar's work post cliff is tomsells. All I'm saying is that it makes way more sense for JS/as to approach the writers about this THEN and he just mentioned it now. All if us are speculating here... No one knows knows a damn thing
So when did PR do his exit interview in this interview of SOD. Did he do it back in February or may be he did it last year?

GT's been there since April. It's August. SOD is talking about these writers. They wouldn't use quotes from last year in an article about post-Olympics.
Rafe's shakeup? Post Olympics. WilSon? Post-Olympics. Bo leaving? Post-Olympics. The whole EJ/Sami slow build they're doing? .......

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Any problems that GT had with BD appear to be long gone. Bryan seems quite happy there. And as we know, we get LUMIMAGIC really soon!

That's why he's on twitter asking for more Lucas like he's a fan campaigning? I don't see AS, CM, GG or others asking for more air time on twitter.
You are totally missing what I'm saying....it's not that the interview was conducted months ago...it's that he MIGHT BE referring to a time where he spoke to the writers about slowing it down with Ejami.

For instance...we know that in late March, Ejami went from "I Hate you and you are going to end up alone" to "OMG this Pinot is fantastic and the sex was good and I'll take the house and I don't give a shit if you are blackmailing my son, you are still fantastic"....

I can see how JS and AS would be concerned about their characters and the direction by MarDar at the time that seemed to point at a very rapid shift and how they were interacting. Is it REALLY that far fetched for JS/AS AT THAT TIME to approach MarDar or Meng or whomever about how quickly Ejami seemed to have been shifted from hate to friend mode and how concerned they might be about that. THEN, this interview opportunity comes around now and JS is asked about Ejami and he just happens to mention that he and AS spoke to the writers about going slow with Ejami. Fact: We don't know when he spoke to the writers about going slow with Ejami. Fact: JS doesn't mention that he spoke to the 'new writers' the 'new regime' or Tomlin and Whitesell and he doesn't specify he spoke to 'the former writers' the 'old regime' or "Marlene and Darrell"...so how can ANYONE be so sure that he is talking about future and not present or past.
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