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Molly Burnett Returning to Days of our Lives?; from Daytime Confidential
Topic Started: May 24 2014, 01:38 PM (32,532 Views)
AllmyDaysatGh
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Just got finished praying again you guys. I said "God, please let this one April Fools Day prank of mine come true. Thank You. #BringBackMollyB #NoTo88"
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"Mary Sue" from TVTrope:
She has an unusual and dramatic Back Story. The canon protagonists are all overwhelmed with admiration for her beauty, wit, courage and other virtues, and are quick to adopt her as one of their True Companions, even characters who are usually antisocial and untrusting; if any character doesn't love her, that character gets an extremely unsympathetic portrayal. She has some sort of especially close relationship to the author's favorite canon character -- their love interest, illegitimate child, never-before-mentioned sister, etc. Other than that, the canon characters are quickly reduced to awestruck cheerleaders, watching from the sidelines as Mary Sue outstrips them in their areas of expertise and solves problems that have stymied them for the entire series.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MarySue

Sparrow
May 26 2014, 11:12 AM
By the time Molly left, each and every male was inexplicably falling head over heels for her. It was really quite disgusting.
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I liked the character at first, but then she just became such a ridiculous Mary Sue. I don't remember seeing any characters like Melanie or Daniel, so incredibly unbelievably perfect in every way, so charming! so enchanting! so many beloved, legacy characters completely dismantled and made ugly and malicious just so we can love the Jonas' that much more.

I mean, I hated Sami Brady (mostly because of AS acting choices, but also because Sami Brady) but she will leave a hole in the canvas when she's gone and I will miss hating her. I loved her, hated her, my heart broke for her, I wanted to slap her, I wanted to hug her. She did a lot of things to earn those emotions, but what she never did was roll up into Salem and enchant everyone with the wattage of a smile that manages to show every gleaming tooth, front and back. I'll miss Sami when she's gone. I haven't missed Melanie, not for one second.


Sparrow,

Thanks for pointing out how Sami has shades of good and bad,
and seems more like a real person, regardless if you love her or hate her.

Yet the show gave Melanie the "Mary Sue" treatment, including
"some sort of especially close relationship to the author's favorite character"

And Daniel is totally a "God-Mode Sue"
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GodModeSue
Edited by nananana7, May 26 2014, 01:56 PM.
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AllmyDaysatGh
May 26 2014, 01:43 PM
Just got finished praying again you guys. I said "God, please let this one April Fools Day prank of mine come true. Thank You. #BringBackMollyB #NoTo88"
LOL, allmydaysatgh. Your like the only Melanie fan here.

Btw, you can have that sig @ SON. im done w/ it.
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ladyofthelake
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Professor-in-training

I forgot to do my dislike. It's 89 now. It's not bad enough that when she laughs, she opens her mouth wide enough to see her tonsils, adenoids, and uvula (and vocal folds).....which I find very "put-on" and insincere. It's sort of like "Oh, look how cute I am!"
It's like a lot of people fear....I feel like the Hortons and Bradys are going to be uprooted by the Jonases.
Edited by ladyofthelake, May 26 2014, 02:41 PM.
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ladyofthelake
May 26 2014, 02:41 PM
It's like a lot of people fear....I feel like the Hortons and Bradys are going to be uprooted by the Jonases.
Abso-freaking-lutely. So Jonas of Nazareth gets another person to add to his tribe, but they can't spare a single thought to giving Nicole a family member -- or Abe -- to anchor her to Salem? She's paid her dues.
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Miss Rhi
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If the Days people that check the board don't log in they're getting updated every few posts in this thread when it comes to how many dislikes the first post has received.
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Honeybees
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I hit dislike, making it 93. I did it primarily because I shudder to think of another Daniel-worshipping character on the canvas. I didn't hate Melanie as a supporting player towards the end of her run but this show does not need anyone else bowing before the Daniel-God.
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Come on 100!
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CrayCray
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Noooooooooooo. Not the insufferable presence of Daniel Jr.

Keep that shebeast far, far away from my tv.

EDIT: Dying at Molly Burnett selling anti-wrinkle cream at the ripe age of 26.
Edited by CrayCray, May 26 2014, 03:24 PM.
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Mitchapalooza
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^ My face watching DAYS

I hit dislike because:

1.) This character is NOT needed now ever.
2.) This character dominated the screen when she was on before
3.) This character will mean even MORE screen time for Daniel Jonas and LESS for the Brady/Horton/DiMera/Kiriakis families.
4.) The actress is massively annoying and overrated.
5.) There are about 25 other characters that would serve a higher purpose.
6.) This character was universally despised during her last run.
7.) This character is partly to blame for the mess the show was in before and during MarDar.

Gary Tomlin is CLEARLY back to his old fucking tricks...the show is slowly morphing back into the putrid mess it was before he was deservedly fired a few years ago. If Tomlin wants history to repeat itself again, then yes go ahead and bring this broke ass character back and keep propping this annoying Jonas family to the high heavens...the ratings and critical reviews of this show will be in the toilet once again.
Edited by Mitchapalooza, May 26 2014, 03:28 PM.
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^ My face watching DAYS

CrayCray
May 26 2014, 03:21 PM
Noooooooooooo. Not the insufferable presence of Daniel Jr.

Keep that shebeast far, far away from my tv.

EDIT: Dying at Molly Burnett selling anti-wrinkle cream at the ripe age of 26.
:teehee: :teehee: :teehee:
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Mitchapalooza
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^ My face watching DAYS

Matt
May 25 2014, 04:00 PM
#No2Melanie
I hope people are tweeting that hashtag to NBCDays,,,,
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ArizonaDaze
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Oh please no. You all have said everything I am thinking about Melanie. I shudder to think what would happen if she was to come back. I hope tiic don't see all the posts (11 pages) and think that since we are all talking about it it would be a good thing. IT'S NOT!! Not now and not ever.
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Hugo


Honestly, I think the outrage won't help. It might do the opposite. I'm sure TPTB wants the fans to be passionate about the characters, it doesn't matter if they hate them as long as they talk about them.
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Mitchapalooza
May 26 2014, 03:25 PM
I hit dislike because:

1.) This character is NOT needed now ever.
2.) This character dominated the screen when she was on before
3.) This character will mean even MORE screen time for Daniel Jonas and LESS for the Brady/Horton/DiMera/Kiriakis families.
4.) The actress is massively annoying and overrated.
5.) There are about 25 other characters that would serve a higher purpose.
6.) This character was universally despised during her last run.
7.) This character is partly to blame for the mess the show was in before and during MarDar.

Gary Tomlin is CLEARLY back to his old fucking tricks...the show is slowly morphing back into the putrid mess it was before he was deservedly fired a few years ago. If Tomlin wants history to repeat itself again, then yes go ahead and bring this broke ass character back and keep propping this annoying Jonas family to the high heavens...the ratings and critical reviews of this show will be in the toilet once again.
You know I'd be willing to suffer through Melanie again if in the end the ratings sunk so low that Tomlin was fired again and we could have a new headwriter who didn't write his or hers' stories in the same old tired cycle that Tomlin does.
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Oak Alley
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why can I only hit 'dislike' once??

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Hugo
May 26 2014, 03:48 PM
Honestly, I think the outrage won't help. It might do the opposite. I'm sure TPTB wants the fans to be passionate about the characters, it doesn't matter if they hate them as long as they talk about them.
I agree with you Hugo. As the saying goes: any publicity is good publicity.
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Miss Rhi
May 26 2014, 03:02 PM
If the Days people that check the board don't log in they're getting updated every few posts in this thread when it comes to how many dislikes the first post has received.
Lol, I'm trying not to check the dislikes because it'll make y'all take my buttons away again and I need them.

But seriously, a good amount of the problems with this show go back to Melanie. For example:


  • The depletion of the 20 something legacy characters. Why is that? Because they were all DESTROYED to serve a higher power--Melanie. Stephanie, Philip, Nick, Chelsea, even boring as paint Nathan were destroyed at her altar. There aren't any 20 something characters because they were all destroyed to benefit her and their portrayers peaced out. A lot of people say it's because they were young actors and sought better things, but I really believe that some of them saw the writing on the wall and were fed up with what their characters had become. Even if they had kept some of these characters on, there was no way to fix them because they did such a good job of making everyone else pathetic while Melanie got to shine. There's no reason for Stephanie and Philip not to be on this show right now. That's what bothers me the most. There's no reason that Steve and Kayla's kid should have been sacrificed for a made up spawn of Carly and Dr. Dan. The same especially goes for Kate and Victor's kid. There's no way Philip Kiriakis should have been checking for her.

  • The Jonas problem. Everything around this show revolves around Daniel and has since around the time they announced that Melanie was his daughter. Daniel was a big part of the show for awhile before that, but once that happened it was done. It was over. Everything was suddenly about Melanie and Daniel and when she left, nothing changed. It's all about Daniel. It's like making him her father gave them license to hand every storyline to him. Not to mention, Maggie has become intolerable since they decided to make them related.

  • Nick Fallon. The loveable geek who broke soap opera stereotypes. Look where he is now. A homophobic, murdering, controlling psychopath. When did that happen again? Oh yeah. When he met Melanie. Again, so much potential wasted in the 20-something age group.



I really hope this is just an ugly rumor because I'd hate to give this show up. It's already pretty intolerable with Daniel but I couldn't handle both again.
Edited by Spencer Hastings, May 26 2014, 04:07 PM.
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You said it Spencer. The same thing is happening again. Daniel ruins everything and everyone he comes in contact with.
On another note, does anyone out there know which writer created the Daniel character? Does the creator get extra money the more their creation is on screen? I've always wondered about that.

Right again Spencer. I hope it's just an out of control rumor.
Edited by ArizonaDaze, May 26 2014, 04:10 PM.
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Personally, I have not hit dislike button, now when it comes to the character so my understanding is that she is not worse than the other boring characters this show has, the actress has a certain stage presence and it's more than I can say for some others on this show, so to sum ​​up, I do not care if she comes back or not because I see that the problem is bigger than this character, as ex exciting stories, exciting characters and so on. And who knows maybe she can bring more than like Abby and company do? If I remember correctly, she was well a bad girl in the beginning? Or?
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