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Konstantin's daughter who died somehow. I missed the details because I've got a cold and am dozing throughout the day.

I often think of AW and find it so, so sad that fewer and fewer people out there do too. Really wish the show had been preserved and streamed somehow. Soaps just vanish into the ether.

Knowing what we know now about how permanent her coma was going to be, so am I. Paulina's being discharged? Wish the writers would do the same with these two cardboard characters. Half of that sentence is exciting. I hope they rebuild it with the same details. Preferably before Doug dies.

I agree! Never enjoyed Paulina more! I'm always thrown when the actors sing on DAYS because you never know what genre it'll be. Johnny is Country Western, apparently. Jada is a bad cop if this is how she reacts to someone lying about who they are. Doesn't that happen regularly? Get it together, girl. And Rafe, LET HER go do research at the station if she wants to. Why not solve this immediately? I don't see the point in drawing this out. I'm so glad we finally know who Katerina is. Feel bad for Maggie though. That nurse dayplayer was living her best life with every line of dialogue 😄

Also, is this an anniversary of some sort?

The actress they cast as young Alice looks spot-on! Tom is pretty good too. ...the house, on the other hand, is a mess 🥺 Why are you bringing us down like this, Show? We're already depressed enough.

Nobody would bother getting within ten feet of Paulina, even with her vocal power diminished. I would pay good money to see Sami mess her up though.

HAHAHA :) See, I don't mind it now that it's the awful Gwenresa incarnation. Tear her to shreds! (Still love JL) Brady's rejection of Kristen as a nasty human being is only...oh...12 years too late? I loved him and Eileen together, but yeah, where was ANY of this awareness back when Kristen was first doing it all Brady? Back when you kept on sleeping with her no matter how insane she was...? I don't enjoy SH as Kristen much, but she was really strong in today's episode, playing all the demented beats of her character. We saw sad lonely Kristen, hoping for a magic fix with Brady just because it was Valentine's Day, uncomfortable Kristen being reminded of her many shocking sins and unable to even buy her own BS excuses, jealous Kristen at the mention of Theresa (more on that in a second), conflicted Kristen when Rachel overheard the fight, and manipulative Kristen, trying to vie for her daughter's sympathies while "consoling" her. I doubt SH really respects or enjoys Kristen as a human being (who could?) so it was impressive that she found a way to live each of those sides of her personality in the scenes today. I felt all of it, and a lot of regret and shame. It was a solid performance and an interesting epilogue to the years of abuses. But...where is it going? Brady has clearly lost Rachel in every way possible, Kristen will never get him back...so....can we just end this now? Let Kristen and Rachel depart for real? So back to Theresa...how in God's name is Brady tolerating even speaking with Kristen about Theresa? The show's writers seem to want to gloss over the magnitude of how Kristen violated Theresa. They even cautiously referenced it without saying "you had a medical procedure performed on Theresa!" It's like somehow they want us to forget the details, even when bringing it up... Little Rachel was pretty good, but unfortunately, she has a tendency to smile/smirk when she thinks she's doing well in her scenes. Today she didn't get believably upset with Brady, and beamed weirdly when Kristen hugged her, even though she was supposed to be hurt by her parents arguing. Oh well. Still like her overall. It's strange. I know Xander is also an awful person who did awful things, but when I see Sarah believing in him, and not telling him to kick rocks, and then see Brady not believing in Kristen and telling her to kick rocks...I'm nodding at both scenes. Guess Telfer has more presence and likeabilty. Stephanie, you haven't been paying attention if you think Rafe is a funny guy. Ava, I do not feel sorry for you. You and Stefan will probably sleep together some more, and Harris will probably be fine, and whatever, whatever, etc, etc. I missed parts of yesterday's episode, but liked how cute John and Marlena looked in their red outfits...until I realized the show was putting two 70 year olds at an outdoor picnic table in FEBRUARY. WTF?!? How is freezing your geriatric ass off romantic, John? There was snow and ice all around. Dude...!?!?! Also, within five minutes we had two completely different status updates for Chad's kids. First he says they wanted to go to school for V Day stuff, then we had Justin saying Doug was looking after them at the Kiriakis house. Huh? OH shit. I'm losing it. SPOT ON, man. Spot on!

Plus Evil Andre and Temperate Tony, who were...um....cou....bro....twi.....half cou....?! They were the same actor. Yeah.

What?? ...woah. I figured this would be a minor fire and we'd see the house again in a month. The whole house is gone? AND the ornaments? That's awful :( (The real ornaments are safe IRL of course.)

Please, please tell the rest of us why you enjoy them. Maybe it'll help make them less dull to the rest of us. I think I've enjoyed moments of Wendy and Tripp, but they are very few and far between. Tripp seems like a plastic wind-up doll with all his girlfriends. So blank. So supportive. As for Everett...I just had the awful thought that maybe they're going to *gulp* give Blake a double role, and have the startling reveal be that he's got a twin. For no ****ing reason whatsoever.

I just realized...Sheri missed a golden opportunity for Julie to invite Paulina, BenAlex, Gwenresa, Leo, Wendy, Ava, Harris and Kristen to her place for a sleepover while she and Doug treated Chad and the kids to a night out at the Salem Inn. Imagine the tears if none of the guests managed to get out.

*Snort* Can we upgrade that to a coma? I fully agree, Boes, about the Horton House set. I hope, since the fire was basically just a strip behind the couch, that the actual set was in no way harmed and will only be dressed to look "burned" in the episodes to come. There's no good reason to mess with it. And really, when was the last time we saw a good new set built on this show? Do they even have set designers anymore? Or do stagehands just figure out for themselves how to manoeuver the same six walls to make something sorta kinda newish, like kids rebuilding a cardboard dollhouse? So many of the sets today lack any kind of fun perspective, or visual trickery. It's all just little boxes with doors. Unfortunate. We had it so good in the '90s didn't we?

Everything about the 21st sounds great....until this creeper is mentioned.

Well this was an exciting day in Salem! Feels like a long time since we've had a fire or shootings. Lots of danger. The meta-ness of the Horton house getting burned down makes me wonder: was Ken wanting to comment on Ari's "betrayal" in some way? Was this a literal depiction of "you're burning it all down on the way out!" or just a random story idea of the interim regime during the strike? There's something so deliberately unsettling about the way it was filmed too, with the "gasoline" getting thrown all over the set. Even if it's just water, wouldn't that leave marks? I will say, the rape couch can go. I always think of poor Ciara (and Chase, whose character was butchered beyond repair) when I see it. They can buy another vintage one. I mean...was that the same couch they had back in Episode One of Days? If not, lose it. It never looked that comfortable anyway. It warms my heart to see Kate and Lucas hugging. Their relationship has been off-camera for too long. Would be nice to see them having an arc again. Is it wrong I hope both Harris and Paulina die? Harris isn't needed, his arc seems short-term anyhow, and having Ava go bad again feels like the natural evolution anyway. I paused the video to see who was playing the Horton House Intruder and my best guess is Everett. There were some pouty lips going on under the mask. Maybe they just hired an extra to keep it mysterious. I could have sworn Chanel said "get into bed and play with you like I used to when I was a kid" which made me do a double-take. 🤢 I rewound it to make sure I heard incorrectly, and I did. She said "lay". Speaking of mumbled words, I honestly couldn't make out much of what Roman was saying. Old age and the southern (?) accent are working against him. So nice to see Doug, though. The slow motion delivery be damned, it's just nice to see him. If there's one advantage to a long lead time, it's that he and Nicole will be around for a while still and that makes me happy. What a weird, sad thing the way the timing has lined up. The lawsuit coinciding with the house fire. Eerie.

So here I am, like a weirdo, watching the Another World cast reunion special that aired on SoapNet in 2003 for the...fourth time (?) and suddenly, who do I see showing up as the final guest to surprise hostess Linda Dano? Jackee 🤨 ....she was on Another World too? Holy moly, she was even more high energy and abrasive then too. I guess I'll be more tolerant of Paulina now. I must have never watched the special to the end before. Survival instinct.

She held up Tiki torches. Okay, it was a stunt woman. The Xmas tree got singed.

Well... Look, I'm not her biggest fan, but her having some fun with her costar shouldn't have derailed anything. It's happened before and shows have gone on to make their deadlines. I think those involved would have been professional and done the work however it played out, but her poor betrayed hubby wanted to destroy her over it. Didn't he threaten to take away the kids if she didn't walk off the show and then confess her sin to their whole church...?! What a lunatic. I can't imagine how Missy stayed with him for real after that. Or had the gall to side with homophobic business practices, but I suppose that's another question.

Barf? John was amazingly adept at saying nothing today. This plotline has worn out it's welcome and we're only in Act One. WTF was with the chest pains? When he said Katarina, I assumed that meant Kate. Pick better names Show. Brady and Theresa were fine....nice to hear him say he was "tricked" into fatherhood by Kristen (the word is "raped" but points for trying). I can't cosign Theresa saying she feels like she "ruins everything". She would never say that and it isn't even true so just....shut up Show. Unless her character arc involves her planting new evidence to tip off Xander to his parentage, she's just over. ....why is Tate needing permission slips to go on outings? Isn't he in juvie? With Ari Zucker's lawsuit now revealing so much about the last few months, should we assume that when she was first let go for approaching Corday about the abuses, they retaliated by promptly writing Nicole out, and Holly as well with this overdose storyline rather than leave her parentless....and then also wrote out Tate by extension, since his plot was linked to Holly more than anyone? And then, after Ari's lawyer helped her keep her job, she returned, and the kids were brought back as well? Is that what all this herky jerky storytelling is really about? Or did they just not like the actors playing Tate and Holly? Or were they "resting" them for 8 weeks or whatever to rotate back in other actors with episode guarantees to fulfill....and they chose to address their absence with this melodramatic drug OD idea?

Except the shows would get cancelled! Once the audience knows about the pet performers, retaliatory plotlines, rivalries, affairs, closeted actors and sexual harrassment, that'd pretty much ruin the fantasy, right? I guess I knew that, but putting it in writing is making it clear. :( So much for ever seeing Eric and Nicole as a real couple for a few years now. We'll be lucky now if they have a goodbye scene.

Yes, I think I saw that bit (I'm a more sporadic viewer now, for the sake of my health) but then, I thought Kon was still going around asking about the Pawn in January... I assumed there was a definitive "A-ha! YOU'RE the Pawn!" scene I missed. ...how many characters knew about or had access to the first Magic Card back in the day? Did the original card get destroyed? Or is this a novelty item they sell in a deck at a shop in the square? Yeah pretty much. ...so we all use the logic of "this crappy rehash storyline won't last as long as it did the first time - I'll live" as a coping mechanism! 😅 I love you guys.

Her statement was really admirable and sad :( She clearly did all she could to fix things and loves the show. I really, really hope we see Nicole, Belle, Chloe and the others affected again...

Honestly, I kinda love the gals banding together to support one another. What are the odds this doesn't end the show, though...?

When was it removed? Recently, or so long ago the writers figure we don't remember? And how did K go from not knowing John was the Pawn to cornering and carding him?

Oh man, I didn't even think of that... Look, from what's already been said about the way women are treated there, I'm team Ari, but I honestly don't see the show surviving this... ...and I wonder which cast members will offer support....or inadvertently get roped in. I mean she is saying others were also mistreated so...is Nadia going to testify? Jen L? Martha M? Could they refuse? Do they have a choice if Ari sites them as a witness? ...this is major. Wow.