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If Caroline does go, I hope Dan is nowhere near her operating table. Did she have scenes with the current Eric at any point in the last few years? With AS coming back they can at least show flashbacks of the two of them over the years...but there might be not much of Eric to show...

Just wanted to say a big THANK YOU for all the answers I've been getting to my questions lately :) I'm really sorry if my replies/posts have seemed curt or very too-the-point. My phone has been dysfunctional and I've often had to re-type messages here several times to get them to post. After ten minutes of trying, you drop the pleasantries and just ask your questions bluntly, you know? But again - thank you for taking the time to reply. So...did no one see when Sami and Marlena learned EJ Wells was Elvis Junior? I can't find any clips of that online, and I'd love to know how it went down.

Hey! I said it first :) I don't want either to leave the show - Caroline, for as little as she pops up, is always a delight. And Stefano, in spite of JM reading off cue cards, is a personal fave. I don't want either of them to go! But the anniversary would be an appropriate time for either of the to. How about we pretend Abifail and Dan die and have a joint funeral? Let's pretend. Join me! There's nothing the writers can do to heat these two up as a couple. They've already been reheated so much they're brittle little biscuits. Unless someone pulls Drake aside and gets him to stop his annoying head tilt/wheezy-speaking and Marlena to stop the condescending tone and head tilt, they'll continue to be loathesome.

Was it a cool reveal- did Mar and Sami's heads explode when they realized who EJ Wells really was? Did Sami express disgust over finding out she was lusting over (or already involved with?) the spawn of Stefano?

Stefano wanted a grandkid for stem cells? Ewww. When did Sami and Marlena learn EJ Wells was actually a DiMerra? Before the rape? How did it come out? Did the characters comment on EJ's SORASed age?

I saw something on another board about an October script partially leaking thanks to a instagram pic, I think....anyway apparently Caroline undergoes surgery. A bit depressing, I think! Totally figured it would be a John/Mar vow renewal ceremony or something. Of course, that could still happen.

I was able to find EJ's first scenes, moving in across the hall from Sami and Austin (how did he ever end up with her again?) and you are right - it isn't exactly subtle that he's likely Susan's son. But did EJ come to town knowing that, or did he discover it?

EJ wasn't EJ until he showed up as EJ Wells. I know about the most epic Kristin storyline of all time. I wasn't watching when EJ Wells popped up, so I ask again: how did his heritage come to light?

When and how did it come out that EJ was Susan and Stefano's baby boy?

Ryan was indeed a favourite and that relationship with Carl was really interesting. In rewatching some of those episodes last year, I did find myself noticing that Paul Michael Valley wasn't as good an actor as I'd remembered him being. Of course, he was younger then, but had a certain cheesiness. Of course, it's nothing as bad as most of the soap acting these days. Wow - yup! I never saw Evan Frame at any point during my time watching the show, but I remember Carl's shooting and him surviving, losing his memory and developing a crush on Iris. So it was Evan, hun? Well. What happened to him? How did his arc go following Iris being behind bars? I think I remember Ali Fowler warning would-be stepdad Cameron at one point in 1998 (I think?) that he'd better be careful about Amanda because if Evan Frame ever "came back to town", she'd be all over him. I guess that means Evan's last storyline on the show did not involve him dying. Why did he want Carl dead and Iris framed for it? Wow - thanks for recapping that! I never saw any of it and wondered about how things had gone down with the character RKK played before Shane/Bobby Reno. Gah - THAT was a fiasco of a comeback, wasn't it? But this sounds pretty lousy too. I hate it when writers poop all over past character's relationships to make the one they're currently in seem more "for real". Of course, it didn't make much sense that Amanda went from being the princess (Sandra F played that angle well, I always felt), to the business lady married to scheming Grant (suddenly smarter and more proud and yet also much more blind), to then scheming to break her mother and Carl up by dressing up and pretending to be Carl's mistress (leaving us all going WTH??), and then back to being a sort of Princess (when Sandra returned). Amanda didn't have the best character arc, to be sure, but at least it was interesting overall and had very likeable actresses playing her ("Hadley Prescott" era Amanda aside). Did any of the rest of you have a chuckle when "Hadley Prescott" shared drinks and flirted with "Shane" (effectively reuniting Amanda and Sam, even though it was a different actress playing Amanda and a completely different character played by RKK)?

Now that Kristin is seemingly gone for a while, I'm done with the show until she comes back. Does anyone know what will be up with Stefano, Chad and Tony in the meantime? Is Stefano going to continue his revenge plot against Marlena in June...or can I tune this crazy show out?

There isn't a thread about her yet? For shame! There has never been more to discuss, from her romance with Superman, to the Sensation comics, her main title, her Lynda Carter '77 series and soon...her big screen debut! What have you been interested in? I am liking the variety in Sensation comics but find it odd how so many Bat villains have appeared. I bought the printed '77 Special and generally enjoyed it. Are there more digital first stories coming? Is this an on-going series now? What are the Finches doing in the main book?

I agree it was maddenning watching Marlena dance around the obvious simple explanation of " she was trying to shoot me, for the third time, and I wrestled the gun away but she tripped and fell" when speaking to Chad, John, Eric and Stefano. It seems all the dialogue is written to be intentionally murky to support multiple interpretations.

Slightly confused by the return of Tony/Andre....wasn't that all wrapped up pretty well? Aren't they both played out? Man, there are a lot of doubles on this show...Gina/Hope, Mar/Samantha, Kristin/Susan/Penelope/their brother, Tony/Andre...

Oh boes, so right about the flashbacks. Marlena in her demon Halloween mask with an overbite was just so bad I couldn't believe it. And don't get me started on how they always zoom in on Fullscreen/TV aspect ratio archive footage to make it widescreen, even though it cuts out pertinent visual information. Lord I could see the stubble on Marlena's thigh in that one shot!! TOO CLOSE!!!

Was Hattie played by DH's actual twin? I only found out she had a twin recently and found that super creepy. DH was terrible during her scenes with JM today. And wasn't he visibly reading off cue cards? Awkward. Though him calling her Saint Marlena and her about to be tossed out a window was possibly the best this show has been in YEARS.

Um...that's hilarious! Paul older than EJ. Lordy. Is EJ the most SORASed character ever in the history of soaps? I wish I had been reading soap message boards when he first popped up just to see how people felt about him aging 25 years in what....six? Seven? You and me both. I'm guessing they'll have her prop up Mar/John, who I bet will be renewing their vows for the 50th. Because DUH! Really, though, I hope she learns that EJ was a scumbag drug dealer and gets over him super fast. I will hurt myself rolling my eyes if I have to hear about this "movie" they're filming about her amazing, totally important and marketable life. Wonder what they'd entitle it? I guess I blinked and missed that. I get kinda weirded out by the notion of pairing up the show's only two black characters, but I really think Maxine was a nice alternative to Lexi, who was pretty uptight/serious. Maxine seems like a LOT of fun and just the kind of woman who would be a great stepmom. They should hook these two back up. And yes, she DOES have great comedic timing! Missed that plot point too. I actually don't mind Melanie, but she NEEDS to stop acting like a twitchy little kid. It's annoying as hell. AGAIN - how did they get him on good terms with his father? Doesn't he know about what he did to Jordan??? The mind boggles. Abby's hair is really in rough shape. It's looking thinner and straw-ish now. Hope the actress is okay and this is just about growing it out and chopping off the dead parts. Okay - you just made me spit my beverage out all over myself picturing Mar stopping mid-fall, grabbing the mountainside and climbing back up with her head spun around.

Um....yes. Without any behind the scenes info, I still say: definitely yes. There's little cohesion to this show and all the scenes are filmed to end the same way, with a startling questions hovering in the air! But they didn't even look threatening. It seemed like Marlena was going to be asked to go over her taxes or something... Can I ask: how on earth did Dan go from sleeping with Brady's ex-fiancee Kristin to allowing his daughter to bang Brady? Those two take GF-swapping to an uncomfortable place...

Robert KK played Bo? Hun. That kinda makes sense. Was this before he appeared on Another World as (ugh) Shane Roberts/Bobby Reno? That was a disaster, but you could see how he would be appealing otherwise. Very rugged, good actor - clearly a "Bo" type. I wouldn't care one bit if Melissa left. Sorry but that ENTIRE FAMILY has been ruined by the writing. When was the last time Melissa did a scene so well that anyone enjoyed it? I know scripts are the problem, but I can't even look at her anymore. A fresh actress and better writing could help turn her in to the likeable person the show seems to want her to be. Could anyone be so kind as to recap what happened post Secret Room for Kristin/John/Marlena/Susan? I know Kristin showed up at the wedding with Roman and that put things on hold for a while...and then later it was revealed that Susan was triplets...but it's all a blur after Secret Room, until the very end, where Kristin ended up in the harem. THANK YOU!

LOL!! I actually think the charm of the actress outshines the idiocy of the scripts, but yeah, sure I can see why she would grate given all she's allowed to do is kiss Daniel's bum and overreact to things. But I feel like she's a great member of the supporting cast and see her as a Celeste equivalent in that both were OOT characters. Like her. And the big hair. You go girl! Thanks for the recap of today's show! I missed it. Strange that Marlena would invite herself over to Chad's for a condescending "I know how you feel about your sister who I just killed" conversation. How freaking awkward is THAT Marlena?? And really? You want to just walk up to the DiMerras and have a touchy feely talk after offing one of theirs? You should have showed up with a T-shirt that read "Abduct Me Please". Is Brady's stupid rubbing off on her? I find it bizarre that John's storyline has nothing to do with Marlena/Stefano/Kristin/Brady's. It was like they had to TRY to find two minutes last week so Marlena could bring John up to speed on killing his ex-fiancee/stalker. And now he's what? Back to bonding with Paul? Bonding with Brady? John of yore would have realized Marlena's ass is danger and put her on lockdown with the whole Salem PD there for backup. ...was John a cop in the past? Was that how he was always telling Abe and the other cops what to do back during the Kristin Rampage of the mid-90s? Was that his trajectory? Priest to cop? Awww, I always thought Abe deserved another romance. Why couldn't he get with that wonderful Nurse from the hospital? She's cool. But I'm with you on Roman. He isn't looking so great these days and seems really out of place. They need to resolve his arc in some way. I don't see Mar running off to be with him, and Sami's gone...he doesn't even have scenes with Eric, so...yeah. Why is he still around?

I don't think I would have enjoyed her suddenly becoming Mrs. Mom. It probably would have translated into her becoming smugger than Saint Marlena (as Kristin calls her). But yeah - this "I gotta get my man!1111!" story is stuck on repeat with this show. And the man is a freaking loser. Sorry Brady, I wanted to like you, I really really did. But are awful. Better than Dan, but barely.

Do we know yet what becomes of Stefano and Marlena after he bring her to Italy? Does he die? I won't have time to watch and I suspect I will be disappointed by the scripts anyway.....thanks!

Woah...thanks for that recap on the Peter fiasco...how was Melissa's husband so powerful that the show executives would allow him to dictate so much? Wasn't he just her husband..?

Random thought: if Paul was conceived during the Father John era....wouldn't that make him older than Brady or EJ?? They were born after him, but appear a decade older. Makes no sense. Shouldn't Paul be SORASed just like they were? And is Xander just supposed to be posing as family? Is he a hired hand? I also enjoyed the bizarrely human and touching scene between Jenn and Brady...

Could someone lay out the details of what happened? I'm not familiar with all the actor names involved or this cheating story, so understanding why Peter's been AWOL so long is a bit tricky...thanks! Also: Before we get into Stefano VS Marlena Round 157, can anyone explain where things have stood between them? I seem to remember years ago seeing Stefano visit Marlena in the hospital, where John was receiving treatment and bidding her farewell/letting her go...could that have been when Deidre Hall and Drake first left the show? And then I saw Stefano and Marlena have some kind of face off in the DiMansion a few years back. All this to say, I have no clue if he ever got over his love for her or what.