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And in the midst of all the boring B.S. being thrown around about NINA, poor Nina, we have that ever-dependable family man, Sonny aka Garden Slug Corinthos and Dullivia "Sugu" Falconeri - SUCH a treat. So Dullivia was wailing about the baby to Sonny yesterday - and she SHOULD have been (first and last time I ever say this horror does anything appropriate) - but Sonny Boy, World's Best Grampa, can't even give her or the kid ONE MINUTE of attention before he turns the conversation back to Michael and how worried Sonny is about how Michael is feeling. That Sonny, such a great dad. He's not JUST for breakfast anymore. That Olivia, dumber than a box of rocks and far less attractive.

I do! That's when we get closeups of her and Rafe. And he is definitely a sleep aid. But I so agree, let's get on with it. I love Days but the way things get dragged out, conversations repeated and repeated can feel deadly. Dragging things out too long can sometimes make the payoff a bit underwhelming. And in that vein, how bout Fish Lips Fallon getting at least a LITTLE pushback?? He's messing with both the DiMera and the Kiriakis family - he should be in cement shoes by now, size 14 by the looks of it.

It would be even more fun if that had been the word Sonny's mother had used to describe him. Just think how Port Charles would be.....

It's such a shame IMO that RH has been so ruined with such a waste of a character. I enjoyed him as Todd, loved him with Blair. I despise both the character of Franco and his characterization of it - although to be fair I don't think anyone could have made this always loathsome, always unnecessary character anything I'd want to watch. This taints RH IMO. It was bad enough to have to listen to ME overact and Donna Mills do the same, explaining the loss of Nina to the block of wood. AND WHO CARES? This is a raw wound - Ron C. can try to force this crap down our throats DAY AFTER DAY AFTER DAY, but there was no story for AJ???? Really? It seems to me that even the actors haven't been able to drum up any feeling for this storyline either. ME has always had a limited range, but good Lord he really sucks in these scenes. I've been tired of Dr. O since her second scene. IMO she's proof of how funny Ron C. thinks he is. She's not - he's not. As for Donna Mills, she must need gas money or something to have wasted her time doing this nonsense. Such garbage - a whole storyline about a dead woman we've never met, about people we don't know, doing things somewhere other than Port Charles. Crap.

Anyone who can bring a loathing for Babe Carey into the discussion goes to the head of the class in my book! She was just the worst, and a worthy comparison to bring out whenever soaps start circling the drain. I don't hate Britt as much as you do but I wouldn't miss her if she disappeared today and took Nickolas with her. Dr. O's charm eluded me by her second appearance on screen. Villians need to have a bit of depth, not just imitate Cloris Leachman's voice in Young Frankenstein and look like Henry Kissinger. She and Franco are IMO the prime examples of how enamored Ron C. is with his own humor. Ha ha....not funny. And Brad.....the bastard child of Pepe LePew and SpongeBob SquarePants. They should have cast him as a one-celled organism, that I'd buy. And that's the talent he has.

I hate to say it but Gabi was the clear winner, once again. Although she did have some pretty tough competition from EJ and Brady. It was a bit amazing that Gabi was able to mount a fairly well-spoken - though erroneously thoughtout - response to Sami. By which I mean she was able to string some words together without swallowing her own tongue. She still made no sense, she still avoided Sami's common sense (Sami and common sense don't happen that often) when Sami reminded her that they thought they were getting rid of a dead body to PROTECT HER, and did she not remember why she bonked Nick on the head to begin with. Of course, Gabi's way more interested in getting boinked than why she got bonked. It was like watching a third-rate ventriloquist dummy talking. Then we've got EJ trying to bluff his way past Stefano. Does the boy NEVER learn who the grownup psychopath in the room REALLY is? Then we had Brady - (can the guy ever say anything without flexing and making a fist?) asking about Theresa, hearing what bad news she is and then deciding to go for it. Not that I have any sympathy for Brady. The guy is such a moron - and a mean one at that.

You're probably right. Since Dante wasn't raised by Orange Glow at least we can sure doesn't smell like an overpowering mix of Coppertone and insincerity. But I bet Dullivia dosed that boy with liberal portions of Old Spice (undoubtedly what Sonny wore when he slicked it down in Bensonhurst)and sauce. The boy undoubtedly improved when he was finally on his own. Morgan, on the other hand, probably smells like monkey from Carly and motor oil from Sonny.

Those two are the worst. Just the worst. Saint Jenn loses her cool at the drop of a hat with just about everybody, and she goes off on Daniel about something virtually every day. That's when she's taking a break from yelling at someone else, of course. The woman is NUTS, not the saint the Hortons claim she is. Was she this big a bitch with Jack? Slip that checkbook of hers somewhere the sun don't shine.

Since someone already stole her sanity why should she keep her money? Honest to God, after Jenn's latest hissy fit Daniel wins dumbest of the dumb today not to have dumped her skinny psychotic ass. Her stupid checkbook shows up at his place and she immediately jumps down his throat? And she does this to this doofus almost DAILY. All the Hortons seem to try and promote her as this beacon of goodness and light and I think they push it a bit too hard. She jumps to conclusions way faster than that tiny brain can actually compute and if she's not yelling at one of her kids or Theresa she's gunning for the guy she "loves". So she's an evil basket case with a creepy smile. What's Daniel's excuse?? It's like this is the only woman ol' horndog could nail. We had Gabi and Nick again too, but today, for me, Daniel wins. If he'd slammed the door in her face, okay, but he didn't.

So Lulu is at the police station BECAUSE HER BABY WAS KIDNAPPED, but instead of focusing on that, she and Nickolas spend all their time discussing Liz and his conversation and by extension, their relationship. Yeah, cuz that's what's really important. Then he goes to see Liz because he just HAS to know about her and Ric and is confronted by that gun-toting ex-chorus girl from "Springtime for Hitler". And Brad - the guy with the insufficent upper lip and the Alvin and the Chipmunks overbite - wishes Britt well while she goes off - he assumes - to further KIDNAP HER NOTSON - and his first instinct is to see if he can possibly weasel another lay out of Lucas. Does anyone really give a rats ass about Ben? Other then Britt, not that I can really see. Such stellar writing..... I swear, Frons is still in the building. No doubt about his paternity even in spite of his showing some intelligence. Even a broken clock is right twice a day, although I suspect Morgan still hasn't learned to tell time. He looks exactly like a Corinthos, and today I bet he smelled like one, too.

Man, we really do have some contenders for the crown, don't we? Brady certainly is Crown Prince in waiting, while Abigail is in the running for dumbest and also most hypocritical. Going off on EJ the way she did about him sleeping with her was pretty rich, considering she stalked him for sex in the boardroom AND followed him into the changing room at the Health Club. I thought Nicole was smarter, but she's gotten REALLY dumb since Eric ditched the collar. He's not the brightest, either, but more in a "good dog, go fetch the ball" sort of way. And as has been said here, EJ wins no awards for not being able to resist Abigail - (dude, she puts her hair in a BUN for chrissake!) and not carrying protection before doing the deed with Jenn Jr. But Gabi.....man, she makes Rafe look smart. Sierra could take 'em all out with one hand tied behind her back.

Wow. Isn't Caroline Brady EVERYTHING good about this show? Oh, I don't mean only her, but what an absolute treat it is when we get to see the vets in action, and what a stellar day when we get not only Caroline, but Victor and Maggie as well. Not only is Caroline a treasure of a character, but what a gem Peggy McKay is. Characters like these are what got me watching soaps and what has kept me watching. Oh, the storylines are fun, and fun to poke fun at sometimes, but it's the humanity that characters like Caroline - and so many others - bring to the shows that keep them a must see for me. As much fun as I poke at Days, this show is IMO the last man standing that realizes people like to see multigenerational families, grandparents, parents, children, etc., interacting and being a vital part of the show. Caroline sure showed that today.

You should have seen him and Carly today, justifying everything they ever did, because AJ is so awful and I guess they're not......the only thing more nausea-inducing would have been if the Moobster and the Howler Monkey had decided to seal the deal with a boink. Then it would have been like a particularly grueling scene from "When Animals Attack". As LeftPhalange said, I too can't wait until Michael finds out - and boots them both to the curb I HOPE.

Ah, wouldn't that be wonderful, to see Sonny pay for something - ANYTHING? As for his claustrophobia, I wish they dump his flat ass in a garbage can and put on the lid. Let him weep in darkness. As for Franco, ditto. Only a truly perverted mind like Ron C. could have thought it was not only a good idea to resurrect this misshapen mess AND make him a leading man. And he's also managed to put a serious dent in Roger Howarth's popularity. Why does Show think we would, or want to root for these horrors?

Of course Carly would pick Sonny over AJ. She always goes for males who aren't of the humanoid persuasion. Jax was so lucky to get way. But who else would mate with the Slagbeast, but another slouching slug - Sonny really IS her forever guy. Michael is "nothing" like AJ? Hey Carly, Michael has been showing us that he's a human lately. That automatically deletes him from the Carly/Sonny DNA bank.

I think you're being far too kind just calling them insipid. Irritating, annoying, horrible, nausea-inducing - and those are just the words I can use that won't get me into the confessional. Although, considering it's Salem, my sins would be pretty minor. I don't mind Daniel nearly as much when he's away from Jenn. Of course, he's got the whole SAVIOR OF SALEM thing going on all the time - and that ridiculous necklace. But when he's with that hypocritical smug dimwitted judgemental (can you tell I don't like Jenn?) he comes off just as bad. Why would ANY guy wnat to be with someone who judges him and condemns him, and in a pretty ugly way - when she thought he'd slept with someone AFTER SHE DUMPED HIM. Jenn can turn into a really ugly witch on a dime. And when they're together, she's STILL dissing him and being passive-aggressive about his friends. Horrid woman - and her daughter is just like her. Plus, when those two get physical it feels like he's making out with his mother. Not because of what she looks like, but because she acts like it. Not that Maggie is EVER that bad.

I DO love your choice of words! That description of Ron C. is exactly what I think his teachers called him at Parent/Teacher night. So, so true.

I know that current winner of this award will almost always be Gabi, but she is by far not our only contender. We have Brady, we have Eric, not to mention the Deveraux Dervishes, Jenn Jenn and Abigail - ALL of whom delight us regularly with jawdroppingly dumb thoughts, actions, words and deeds almost every time they appear. So lets keep a daily tally of who we think deserves the Salem Nuclear Wedgie each day for the dumbest thing. I think Gabi won on Monday for telling Nick that she felt bad that he was being "left out" of Sonny and Will's wedding. "Left out", indeed - considering what Ferret Face Fallon pulled with both of them, he deserves to be dumped into the river on a daily basis for the rest of time by them. And for being SUCH an idiot, Gabi deserves the same. There are turkeys smarter than her, not to mention rocks. I missed yesterday's show so I don't know who to nominate. But for today - Wednesday - it looks like Gabi wins again, for going after Sonny. Not to say Brady didn't put in a valiant attempt - gotta give the big lug credit, cuz he's always going for the gold in the stupidity department. Victor doesn't call him his "idiot grandson" as any form of irony. But, once again, Gabi, wins IMO. I swear she must be told to breathe regularly because she's too stupid to know to do it on her own. She and Nick are a match made in .....Salem..... So who do you folks think sould win the Wedgie??

This post is a thing of absolute truth and beauty. I particularly enjoyed what you said about Roger Howarth. Never thought the day would come when I cringe and FF every time he appears but that day came the second he showed up as Franco. Calling him a ham is an insult to processed meats. And speaking of processed meats, Sonny aka Orange Glow is far past his expiration date. I can smell him from here. Carly never had an expiration date - she was spoiled the minute she appeared. But somehow Laura Wright makes it even worse.

Oh so do I! Ava is so obvious and for me such a cartoon character. She's Jessica Rabbit without the subtlety. And making her Delia Ryan's kid was really annoying. RH was a great soap IMO back in the day, and tieing this knucklehead with her heavy breathing, inability to blink, and wierd body movements to the naturalness of the Ryan clan was just wrong. I know folks enjoy Ava but I'm not one of them. I wish Ron C. knew that soaps aren't ALL camp. In fact, soaps survived for decades and decades with just good storytelling. Not that Ron C. seems to have ever known that.

And why does he bother to pray anyway? He's got Olivia to rubber stamp every thing he does - and the only God Orange Glow seems to recognize is Coppertone Spray Tan anyway. Focusing instead on the Three Faces of the SlagBeast and the Howler Monkey she loves didn’t do it for me. Both of them have less taste than bored baboons at the zoo - at least we don't to watch him or IT scratch their itch, at least not today. There were a few good moments here and there today, but those sort of infuriate me more. They remind me of what could be instead of what it is. As for Carly, Sarah Brown was the most tolerable for me. Every now and then there seemed to be the possibility of character growth, although it didn't come to pass. Carly as played by Laura Wright is this stark example of psychotic trash. Her Carly - all of them, I guess but hers in particular - is completely trash. As my Aunt Ida used to say, "she'd belch at a baptism and fart at a funeral". And then laught too loudly and inappropriately. The people of Port Charles should really be crossing the street every time they see this train wreck coming instead of acting like she's even remotely normal. But then this is the town that says Sonny is a good father after he shot HISSON in the chest.

I don't see it myself but so what - plenty of folks do see chemistry with Sam and Silas. All I see is McBain and he was never a favorite of mine. But you like them and that's a good thing. I do agree that neither one of them individually, or them as couple approach the vortex of suckage that is Franco/Carly or Michael/Kiki - or especially the Orange Glow Moobster and the Abondonza Queen of Italian Stereotyping, Dullivia. I do think, though, that Nina -dead or alive or hiding out in the freezer at the local 7/11 has eaten up an enormous amount of screentime. This is a non-character, never on the show, invented, I guess, to make us feel sympathy for what is still really a newbie, or at least, a not-ver-well-known character. It feels forced and it feels false to me. And it's one of those "get on with it" moments too. Silas and his grief seem about as immediate to General Hospital as overhearing a phone conversation on the train does to anyone's real life. It's like when my mother would go on and on - and on - about some neighbor who I'd never met and their tragedy. Yap yap yap. Ron C. did this on OLTL too. He'd introduce a character - think the horrid Ford Brothers - and then overdose them with backstory and wonder why nobody watching gave a rats ass.

Tis me! I lurked at TWOP but decided to actually post here. VERY good to see you here! While Michael Easton has been with the show, I don't think Silas has been here that long. But regardless, you hit the nail on the head. The character is not only boring, but an enormous amount of airtime has been gobbled up about some offscreen character he's now mourning - an enormous amount. And he can say it all he wants, but I'm not buying it. But for me, even more importantly, I don't care..one..little..bit. This, to me, is another example of Ron C. overdosing the audience on his favorites and the storylines that live in his head (oh, if only), and TELLING us what to feel rather than actually investing in characters and storylines with any depth or consistency. But that's my take.

Well said. WHY are we supposed to care about a character we've never met being mourned by a character we barely know? And his grief - gimme a break. He was ready to jump Ms. Morgan's bones without even mentioning her, and now he's oh so sad like a lil' puppy... GAH.

So, lemme get this straight.....AG's idea of how to portray EVULLUKE is to always let his mouth hang open, and color his lips Jungle Red, while not blinking. Oh, and now and then he says a bad word. And doesn't blink. And lets his mouth hang open......Wanna bet this will be his next Emmy Reel, when it should be his application tape for a locked ward? Luke as a character is so done, so over. Almost as much as AG is as an actor.