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"In addition, once th actress gives birth, Marci will be on maternity leave from Days of our Lives. And that means Abigail can’t stick around Salem. So, that means they’ll write an exit plot for Abigail Deveraux. Or they’ll need to recast the role. Kate Mansi’s the usual Abigail substitute." Soap Dirt always leaves a lot to be desired, but this article is particularly badly written. Talk about redundancy and stating the obvious. Once the actress gives birth she'll be on maternity leave! 🙄No kidding. Unless you have a really shady employer you generally can't return to work without sufficient medical leave and a doctor's note. The character will either have to be written out or recast. 🙄 You don't say? Is there even a third option? I'm almost surprised they didn't write, "And that means she'll either have a boy or a girl."

How did Gabi/Abi get past the front desk/lobby of the Salem Inn without being seen? And how far is Town Square from the Dimera's? Quite the workout they must have gotten pushing a linen cart loaded down with Gwen through the cold and snow. For a second there, I though Bonnie was going to be the ultimate crime stopper. None the less, she's still more intuitive than Lanni, who would have probably helped push the cart through town square simply because Abi & Gabbi are mothers. When Abi/Gabby get slapped with kidnapping charges, I wonder if they tack on a few counts of transporting stolen goods? lol @ Zander's "little prick."

I too would have loved to see a true Team Gabi/Gwen. There was definitely more charisma between those two on screen than a Gabi/Abi pairing. I also agree the Kristin/Susan, Brady, Chloe plot is already wearing thin. Kristin is nuts, and Chloe is too starry eyed over Brady, who is hardly a prize to fight over in the first place. Not to mention the contrived angles of the situation. Like why is Susan still a house guest at Marlena's to begin with? She arrived because of her premonition about Brady but he was already shot so she could have returned to TN the next morning. Surely it's time for Marlena to suggest that "Susan" is wearing out her welcome. And on the flip side, isn't Chloe missing her kid? She arrived just before Christmas and it's now after Valentine's Day. I fear Parker will have to mail her a Mother's Day card at the rate this is going,

Not to be the voice of reason in a really stupid plot, but couldn’t Brady have just eaten the pancakes while they were warm/fresh and then reheated the muffin later for a snack? Seemed like a lot of fuss and chaos over breakfast. I was kinda hoping Marlena would come home, observe "Susan" having a hissy fit over feeding Brady, and decide a little time at Bayview was in order. Would be hilarious for Kristin to end up locked up there after her old switcheroo.

Not that I recall, but I suspect if/when they want to officially end Eric's character it will be a country with Ebola.

Same here! I've noticed her extensive wardrobe of high necked Little House on the Prairie floral dresses numerous times, but never noticed a bump until it was pointed out here. But once I went looking for it earlier this week, I didn't notice it. Maybe she was just one of those women who "pops" overnight though.

I interpreted it to mean that Claire will think Allie's guilty, but she will do things to try to protect her while assuming she's the guilty party because she'll feel partially responsible for going to see her the night before and telling her about her failed confessions recording.

I didn't get that either. I feel like the writers keep forgetting where they have Tripp living. Plus there's now no reason for Ava to stay with Rafe. What was the point?

I wonder if she'll actually do jail time or a new stint in Bayview?

I did too! But I guess we're supposed to believe that Sami had to pee while she was there. 😁 You'd think, but this is Salem so I'm leaving open the possibility since I don't think they ever crossed paths. Thanks! But I'll gladly take second place to yours; "The Cask of Amontillado"--I love it. Can we subscribe Ron to the Poe of the month club and keep our fingers crossed?

As nutty as Susan is, Kristin could make up the most outrageous load of crap that comes to mind and Ben and Claire would be dumb, desperate, and gullible enough to believe it as her psychic vision. Would have probably been more believable to them than, “you know what, bite me.” Though that was funny. I'm still holding onto this slim hope that Charlie's father, Jimmy Whatever, is actually Jake. Not only would it bring the story full swing, but give Jake a better story. I suspect him and Ava would have more chemistry on screen as exes than him and Kate as lovers. Good idea. It would explain why Sami is so close-lipped about it all. I definitely don't think she did it. I think the scene of her standing over the body with the gun, saying he deserved it, is how she found him. I'm just not sure if the gun is hers and she showed up to shoot him and he was already dead or if she took the gun she found there cause she thought it was Allie's and wiped it clean and hid it. But since Ron made such a big deal about the time, I have to think that's the clue she didn't do it since Charlie was killed "later that night" and Sami wasn't found in the apartment till "the next morning." Sami has had enough rodeos with crime to know not to stick around the scene that long.

I was surprised Ava didn't offer to go along too. I was equally surprised Rafe even gave her the details at that point. But I also noted that Rafe's info was only that "shot(s) had been fired," and Ava jumped to the suicide explanation, but given Charlie's character and the fact that Ava is staying at Rafe's for protection because of him, it would be far more likely that Charlie fired the shots at someone. Never the less, for a shooting, Rafe wasn't exactly in a hurry to get there, nor did he take back-up. So who called it in and assumed (or knew) he was dead? The killer? John in black-out mode? Or the probably half dozen Salemites who visited his apartment the night before to threaten, argue, or try to kill him only to find him already dead?

As I was watching today's episode I was trying to tally the percentage of Salem's population who were "dead" at one time. I had a decent size list that included Hope, Marlena, Steve, Roman, Orpheus, EJ, Stefano, Tony, Andre, Jack, Will, and then I remembered the whole Melaswen thing and gave up. Rough guestimate somewhere between 50-71% of the town. They don't even have to bothering making it vague anymore; they have Rolf! 😁 A viewer back then, I figured they left a small door open for her return with the plane going down on or around Orpheus's island and I don't think they recovered a body either, all presumably in case DH's Our House show got cancelled and she came back sooner rather than later.

"The Next Morning..." So it looks like Ron discovered a new feature in the editing room, and he's playing with that toy like a kid on Christmas morning. I wonder if tomorrow will start out, "After Lunch." As Ava related her sorted motherhood tale to Rafe it struck me that unless Charlie turns up alive, and this is Salem so its possible, the writing missed a potentially engaging story angle if Charlie would have decided to have a relationship with Henry because he didn't want Henry to feel abandoned like he did by Ava, only to find out that like his mother, he also didn't feel anything towards a child he didn't want and wasn't interested in the mother (Allie) because he really wanted Claire, like Ava who wasn't into Charlie's father because she still wanted Steve. Could have produced some good scenes between him and Ava down the road. I suppose we can rule out Allie as the killer since Charlie was clearly shot above the belt. Ben should be free and clear too since there was no necktie at the scene and he was presumably having a wet dream about Ciara when Charlie was taken down. Does Ron have teenagers doing virtual learning at home while he writes because I'm starting to have high school flashbacks with all these canonical novels he keeps tossing in as plot points. I feel like he's getting his ideas from a zoom classroom in the background. Can Evan please bound and gag Ciara! Pretty please.🙏 Her smug, bitchy attitude is so annoying. "I'm so rich and important, my granddaddy will pay buckets of his dirty money to get me back."🙄 "My serial killer GQ husband will save me. I already called him and he said....well okay fine he didn't say anything cause we had a bad connection and he couldn't hear me, but you should be worried just the same." 😆

When Tripps started hypothesizing to Steve all the things Charlie could do, like try to get custody of Henry, they should have written on the screen, "Plot turns Ron pondered but nixed." It basically sounded like, "we considered these possible story arcs, but the dart didn't land on them."

LOL And Holly's motive is to frame Henry so she doesn't have to keep sharing her bedroom with him. 🤣

After the "Later that night," I kept waiting for "Today's episode was brought to you by a class of 9th graders writing a who-dun-it for creative writing class!" I mean seriously, could the whole episode have been anymore contrived as Charlie ran into everyone in town who wanted him gone, gave them a motive to kill him, and a chance to say they wanted to. It was only made laughable, though I don't imagine intentionally so, by the fact that some of the suspects came off more unhinged than Charlie. Yep, I'm looking at you John. Oh and "I'll blow his dick off and get away with it" Allie. Ron really should stick with writing comedy (cause I enjoyed it from that angle) and parody, and leave the mystery/suspense for someone w/more talent in that genre. THIS would be awesome! I don't even care that it kind of rips off the Tony/Andre suicide framing of John in Aremid in the mid-90s. It would be far more interesting to try and figure out who Charlie would frame than whether it was John with his bare hands in the doorway, Kate with a bullet to the chest in the doorway, or Allie with two slugs to both nuts in the doorway. 😁

Yes, I think that's what Charlie's actor is good with--pulling off this twisted lying character who is creepily into Claire but also vulnerable enough that he fell for what she was saying because he wants that love and acceptance that Ava never gave him. Agree too that Belle's line, in the same episode as Kate's, and following a few other threats/promises by Salemites just came off as trite, forced dialogue. Belle being an attorney and Shawn a cop, it would have been more in character for her to threaten to have him thrown in jail for harassment/restraining order, etc. Oh I think Charlie's duplicity is what makes him interesting and creates an engaging scene. I don't want them to change the way he's behaving or retconn what he's done. This fragile line that Charlie walks between wanting to have someone love him and have a normal relationship and then snapping and acting out his deep-seated issues is what makes Charlie a complex villain and unpredictable character. And that's what's key to tuning in and paying close attention to his scenes as opposed to washing the dishes and merely half listening to a character who you know is going to spout the same rubbish on a regular basis (*coughs* Lani: "But Kristin is a mother!") Instead when Charlie says, "it just happened," yes as a rational modern viewers we know rape didn't just happen, but it's more a question as to whether or not Charlie wants to believe that, has actually convinced himself that, or knows damn well and is just lying through his teeth. And MM does a good job reflecting what's probably an internal struggle in Charlie's head as he reacts to whoever is acting opposite him as their character. With Charlie I feel as if the storyline could continue to toe that line where you aren't sure if Charlie is trying to move to the side of good/working toward redemption or he's merely tricking everyone to get what he wants because he sort of still operates on that 'basic needs' level, which haven't been met. Or he doesn't even know himself what he's going to do next. as he's just that messed in the head. He's sort-of a walking slideshow of Freud's id/ego/superego concepts. His character has the potential for a type of long-con plot that could keep viewing guessing just which direction he's finally going to go all while keeping several Salemites on edge. Not just Claire but Tripp and Allie who could be stuck dealing with him as a brother and baby daddy. As for Claire though, ORK's Claire would have made the story and their actions even more unpredictable because she played Claire in a similar way where you weren't sure if she was guilty or innocent (i.e. Ciara's wedding mishaps) or if she'd been rehabilitated or snapped again so coupling that with Charlie could have been daytime gold as viewers tried to figure out if she was really duping/double-crossing Charlie or if she'd found her soul mate. In contrast, dumb is a dime a dozen, and NuClaire isn't setting herself apart from many Salemites these days other than being a strong contender for the dual title of Little Miss Naïve and Most Easily Misled, her shipping of Cin, all their magical connections, and the psychic power of Susan Banks isn't helping. In fact, Charlie could probably coerce or bride Susan with ice-cream to tell Claire that she had a vision where Allie was raped by a vampire, little Henry was Elvis's son, and everyone could now live happily ever after and NuClaire would probably buy it. 100% w/ya! Agree!

I don't understand why Claire didn't: A). Hide the phone where Charlie couldn't see it before she left him in so she didn't have to make that lame excuse of silencing it. B). Actually answer it when it rang, which would have given her the opportunity to end the recording and given her an excuse to get away from Charlie since she got what she needed. "Sorry, it's my mom who needs me to meet her. We'll have to have sex another night, Charlie." C) Have someone else hiding in another room so she wasn't alone with Charlie and who would have also heard the confession and recorded it. D) ALL OF THE ABOVE! Claire just comes off as dumb as rocks so while I should be rooting for her in theory, I end up rooting for Charlie the rapist, which is just bizarre, but goes to how well the actor is pulling this off. I fail to see that Jake and Kate have much of a relationship beyond sex. And I can't decide if Jake just wants Kate to work with him because he's stuck in love sick school boy mode and is planning for afternoon delights at the office or if it's because he has no clue how to run a major corporate and needs Kate's help but doesn't want to admit it. I'm sure though it's one of the two, if not a mix of both. Agree. I hate to admit it but I found their scenes yesterday kinda cute in that budding new young couple kinda way. I still find Allie annoying, but there might be some potential there between the two of them. Though I would like to see some substance to their relationship build-up. Like I'd find it more believable that Tripp started to fall for Allie if Charlie became menacing/a threat and Tripp initially started stopping by because he didn't trust Charlie or Charlie was causing her and Henry grief.

The women's division of Statesville still feels like middle school, not jail. I mean Susan asking Vivian if they wanted to be cellmates, and then Vivian saying it was going to be a long month as if her friends had gone on a class trip and she was stuck at the lunch table with the weird girl while they were gone. Add in the drama of the fake chest pains that sounded like the school nurse had her number, "Fine, go ahead and puke on the floor-- I know the cafeteria bologna sandwiches are nasty--but you are still not getting out of that math test." *muttered off-screen* Also there's clearly a guard teacher shortage, and the warden principal must be off golfing because the prisoners students are running the school.

I wish! But I suspect it will only be Lani getting suspicious because it's really Susan. She'll just sense that it's not her secret love and that bond they share. Lani's not a good enough cop to notice the dentures, contacts, and voice change.

Next two weeks look like a mixed bag of boring and interesting. March 3rd should be fun. 😁 TV Guide Spoilers: 22 Feb Vivian makes a deal with Kristen. Chloe reveals to Brady that Philip kissed her. Tripp helps Allie, who's having a tough time with Henry. Claire lures Charlie into a trap. 23 Feb Charlie flips out on Claire. Kristen struggles to pull off her plan to keep Chloe away from Brady. Philip makes a decision about hiring Gabi. Sarah has surprising news for Xander. 24 Feb John threatens Charlie. Claire is alarmed by Allie's confession. Tripp tells Steve he wants to help Allie with baby Henry. Nicole and Rafe bring Ava home from the hospital. 25 Feb Ciara and Ben have a shared dream. Marlena grills John about his disappearing act. Evan goes against his father's wishes. Rafe makes a shocking discovery. 26 Feb Rafe brings in a murder suspect. Ben and Claire seek help from Susan again. Susan panics when Lani comes to visit "Kristen" in prison. Eli delivers disturbing news to Ava and Tripp. 1 Mar Jackée Harry debuts as Paulina Price. Chloe questions Susan's behavior. Lani becomes suspicious of Kristen. Abigail presses Gabi to join forces with her against Gwen. 2 Mar Abigail and Jack have a heated argument about Gwen. Kristen uses Philip to her advantage. Chloe advises Sarah not to marry Xander. Lani introduces Abe and Eli to her Aunt Paulina. 3 Mar Abigail and Gabi kidnap Gwen. Jack informs Chad about his fight with Abigail. Steve and Kayla have an awkward encounter with Bonnie and Justin. Sarah discovers Xander in a compromising position. 4 Mar Sami tries to persuade Belle to represent her. John fears he may have gone too far. Ben seeks help from Marlena. Evan plays mind games with Ciara. 5 Mar Abigail demands Gwen admit to killing Laura. Kate and Jake get a win over Philip and Gabi. Evan informs Ciara of his deadly plans for Ben. Clyde has stunning news for Ben.

I think I remember that. And "Stand By Me" was or became their theme song since all the 80s couples had one. Steve & Kayla: "If Your Heart Comes Out Tonight" Bo & Hope: "Tonight I Celebrate My Love" Shane & Kim: "Friends and Lovers" Roman & Marlena: "Up Where We Belong" Justin & Adrienne.... I can't remember the name but I never cared for it and loathed every time WK broke out singing it. 😁

Early March spoilers: http://www.dayscafe.com/sneakpeek.html Those who called Sami as the first suspect arrested, it sounds like you win a prize.

Rhode's place had a thin cheap mattress that they flipped around cause my teenager watching parts with me said, "Do they seriously think Ciara is under there?" lol But yeah, it was dingy and sparse, though they did say the neighbor said Rhodes hadn't been there since Sept. so I assumed he took some things with him. Maybe the painting and bedding in Ciara's cage, though honestly her 'room' looks like décor he robbed from Chez DiMera.