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The writing on the show is just horrible across the board and I think it is all of Corday's fault..He should not let Freddie leave..He is the best younger actor on the show....

Plenty of actors have their preferred pairing on a soap..Vanessa Marcil from General Hospital has said that she wants Sonny and Brenda to be endgame, whenever General Hospital is over for good..Allison Sweeney has never publicly said who she prefers Sami to be with in the long run, out of respect for her different fan bases..I get the impression that it is Lumi because of the history that she shares with Bryan Dattilo on the show.. Freddie was rumored to have said that when Guy first came on the scene as Will, Paul was not in anybody's mind when he made that statement about Wilson being endgame... Plus, we don't really know why Freddie decided to leave the show..It could be dissatisfaction with the writing of the show..Sonny has never been made a lead on the show..He is still a prop for Will, despite the recasting with Guy..Sonny never drives stories in Wilson or apart..Freddie is a better actor than Guy, he should have been the lead actor in Wilson ver 2.. The cheating storyline should have been about Sonny and how he deals with it..Instead we have Will's insecurities and Sparkle lamenting his lost love in Sonny....The show should have brought Sonny's brothers in town, so that we could have seen Sonny's relationships outside of Will and Arianna...We could have gain more insight into Sonny via his brothers and his parents about his life, his childhood..We never saw Sonny unleash his ruthless Kiriakis side..We already know about Will because we saw him grow up on the show..Sonny was such a blank canvas and the writers had the freedom to give us good Sonny centric stories..Instead it is always about Will and his issues...These writers are just awful...Allison and James also left because they hated the way they wrote their characters..Perhaps Freddie got tired of their shitty writing and left...

I would have love to have seen that..I hope Sonny gets a decent exit, but, I am not holding my breath..I want Wilson to leave together. I would not be surprise that Corday kills Sonny off and put Will and Sparkle together because they are the only gay characters on the show...They do that with Black characters all the time, they will put them together because they are black, not because it makes sense... I remember after Steve was presumed dead, I wanted Kayla and Marcus to get together eventually..They had a good vibe and it made sense for them to get together because they both loved Steve very much....Instead they did Shayla....I guess the show was afraid of doing an interracial romance with Kayla and Marcus..

That may be true,,But the fans love Jack and that is what matters...Give us what we want....

You are so right about that...He feels that Dannifer is better than Jack and Jennifer .....You ask anybody who is a Days of our lives fans and they would never say that...Never...Clearly the man is delusional.....lol..My cousin who has not watched the show in over 10 years still asks me about Jack and Jennifer, that shows you the impact that couple had on viewers....

lastwaltz, Lily was singing I can't make you love me...It hearkened back to when Lily(as heather Rattray) was trying to get Holden to remember their life together and their love while he was suffering from amnesia...Lily was so desperate to get Holden to remember, that it bordered on pathetic because Holden was so mean to her and kept on rejecting her over and over..It was so hard to watch..Holden's amnesia was supposed to be permanent...Douglas wanted to rebuild Holden and Lily, but the new writers undid that after his death...I have always wondered how he intended to do that...I know it would have been wonderful and unique..Douglas liked to test his couples through internal conflict rather than external conflict...His stories were always character-driven and he took time to build them and the payoff was always fantastic..We will never have another Douglas Marland in daytime..He always said you write for the audience and not for you as a writer...I wish Ken Corday could remember that when running Days of our lives... Do you guys think that the show will acknowledge Freddie's departure or will they keep quiet? Freddie and Guy have not said anything about the rumors on tweeter...I hope we get to see the Kiriakis brothers together before Freddie leaves....I want to see their dynamic with each other and their parents....The last time that we saw Alex and the twins, they were children...

She played Lily, when Holden and Lily finally got married, but there was a secret looming..Aaron who had been adopted by Iva was Holden's son by Julie..That story played out for 2 years...It was sublime..Douglas Marland at his best...Holden got amnesia and rejected Lily..Lily left town after finding out about Aaron and Lucinda's machinations. Lily came back as Martha married to Damian...lol How do you think they will write out Sonny? alone or with his family..He might be presumed dead..Don't forget Clyde is still a danger to Victor's family...

I actually think he should submit episodes from this year for Next year's emmys....He was flawless this year....

Rick Kitchen, I actually thought that Noelle Beck's Lily embodied both Martha's Lily and heather's Lily perfectly..She had Heather's sophistication/Egde and Martha's fragility perfectly...I hope I made sense...lol..I never saw Lucy Deakins in the role, she originated the role.. What were your impressions of Heather as Lily? The actress who plays Paige is still on the show...I saw a tweet of her in a picture with Christopher at the NBC studios....I wonder if Guy is still on the show, the day that the news broke that Freddie was no longer on the show..Christopher had posted pictures of Freddie making it seem like he was still working there....They could be faking us out....He had also posted pictures of Guy as well....I can see the show writing off Wilson and keeping Christopher and going from there..He has yet to interact with Belle, Brady and the rest of the Brady clan..The Bradys still think of John as family....

I agree completely with your post...Stefanie, Chelsea, Theresa, Andrew, Melissa, Sarah, Nathan, Philip, JJ, Abigail, joey,Chloe, Benji, Cameron, Carrie, Austin, their kid along with the kiriakis Brothers should be in town driving stories for their generation and beyond...Sonny should have gone dark after learning of Will's betrayal.....It makes no sense to me that he would be flirting with Sparkle..Every time Sparkle looks his way or gives him a flirtatious smile, he should be thinking about him and Will being together..I know that Sparkle was not at fault..He fucked his husband...Sonny was ready to kill Sparkle when he remembered that he touched Will. Sonny should not be entertaining Sparkle at all.. That has to wound Sonny's pride to know that Will who had not been with other men other than Sonny, succumbed so easily to Sparkle...

Lucinda and John..They were wonderful.....Lucinda was such a great complex character played by a great actress..I like Guy, unlike alot of people on here..I do think that it would be good for Will and Sonny to leave together as a family..They can always come back...They are legacy children with a legacy grandchild...The show failed to make Freddie a lead actor, when Chandler left the show...Freddie has it and he makes his pairings palatable..If I was not a Wilson fan, I would be sitting at the Paulson table..I just feel that it was unnecessary to destroy Will a legacy child that we saw grow up on the show in favor of a stranger in Paul...I love Will because he is lumi's kid. I grew to like Sonny because Will liked him...I don't like it when the show forces a character down my throat..They could have brought Paul on the canvas without sacrificing Will and Wilson..look at how they brought in Carly for Bo after Hope died..They respected the Bope fans while building the Bo/Carly fanbase....Ken Corday has no respect for the fans of the show and that is why the show's ratings are so bad... I also think that now is the time for Freddie to leave the show and expand his horizons...He obviously does not want to be a lifer on a soap...He is young with no children..Now is the time to take a leap of faith....Plus, he is newly engaged to his girlfriend Alyssa..Perhaps,he feels that this is the right decision for his family....I am going to miss him and I wish him all the best in the world....

I loved Holden and Lily as Well..I even loved Heather Rattray as Lily and she got alot of hate just like Guy Wilson....Guy gets it worst because of social media...I liked Martha's Lily as well, but at times she was too whiny and a victim. Whereas, Heather's Lily had all the qualities that Lucinda's daughter should be..Strong, but, with a hidden vulnerability....Heather was fantastic in the reveal of Aaron's paternity...Douglas Marland's last umbrella story on the show, before his death..It took 2 years to reveal and it involved most of the cast in that storyline... I loved the complex mother/daughter relationship between Lucinda and Lily...Lily's relationship with the Snyders was also good, especially with Iva her biological mother. I always loved that the show never made Iva more of a mother to Lily than Lucinda simply because she was biological mom..She never once called her mom, her mother was always Lucinda, no matter what....It was fitting that the show ended with that fact intact...Iva and Lucinda also had a complex relationship as well..Douglas was such a genius in crafting characters and storylines for the show..

Yes, he is...lol...

The show lost it's footing when they decided to make Sami and EJ the leads of the show, forgetting that it is an ensemble show.....Daytime used to be balance when I was a kid..There were always three stories on at the same time..When one was starting, one was in the middle of the story and another one was reaching it's climax. That way there was always something for everybody..Corday and company assumed everybody was a Sami fan and that was not the case...

You are right..I forgot about that..Paul has more staying power because he is now a legacy character via John...

Yes, they were,,It was not successful..Most people were angry with Matthew being recast and then Melissa left under a firestorm of controversy....Jack and Jennifer were both written out at separate times....I liked the Jack recast, but, he was too bland..Matthew was always Jack to me.....I think the Jack recast should have been Mike Horton....Even though Michael T. Weiss was the definitive Mike, he was so sexy and I loved his relationship with April...Days always had the best couples in daytime.....No other show can touch them in that arena..

I think so..He has roots in Salem via John..Plus, he is a double minority..He is gay and Asian..He is like a novelty for the show....He is the first Gay Asian male on Daytime TV, the show would be stupid to write him out...They can always bring in another man for him...

Ken Corday is the problem..I wish that he would retire..The man is a hack....

I loved Bo and Carly because it was a slow build because the writers knew that Bo and Hope were a beloved supercouple..They took their time establishing Carly as a character, there was nobody there to sing her praises. Carly came in as a doctor and Bo was a grieving widower trying to rebuild his life with his son..I loved their relationship it was so adult and so believable..I loved it when they married themselves on top of that pyramid in Mexico..Just beautiful..Then it all went to hell with the arrival of Lawrence, Vivian, Victor and Nicholas into their lives...lol I loved the relationship between Nicholas and Shawn-Douglas.. Bo and Carly was my favorite pairing of Bo's..I also loved the friendship between Carly and Jennifer..Jennifer was such a great heroine back then...She was so spunky and fearless. She went to bat for Carly and unfortunately, that made her a target of Lawrence...It is a shame what they have done to her.... I don't want Sonny to be recast...He should leave town to clear his head. In the meantime, a heartbroken Will continues with his life . Will makes peace with Sparkle because he is John's son..He takes responsibility for damaging his marriage. Then Sonny comes back for his family and they leave town together to start anew...We get word about them via Marlena, Rafe, Justin and Adrienne. We found out that Will and Sonny are expecting a second daughter via a surrogate, this time Sonny is the biological father..If DAYS is still around in the future, they can bring them back with new actors...

No, it is a plot point..Victor was always supportive of Wilson..He never had a problem with Will...When Chad revealed that Will was the father of Gaby's baby, Sonny was furious and Victor told him not to hold it against Will...He encouraged Sonny to reconcile with him...

He also blackmailed Kim into sleeping with him..It could have been a scenario like EJ and Sami in order for Kim to either protect Shayne or save his life..Victor was evil back in the day.... When the original Philip came back, they barely mentioned his artificial leg. He did not even walk with a noticeable limp like the recast in the Stan storyline...Victor was obsessed with Kim and did everything to keep her and Shayne apart....Andrew was believed to be Victor's at some point. It was hard for Shayne to accept at first, but he came around and accepted Andrew as his son regardless of biology and named him after his brother...He was overjoyed to find out that he was in fact his biological son....I like that Days always give their supercouples a child...Even their gay couple share a child.... The only popular couple that did not share a child was Bo and Carly...I always wanted them to share a son. Carly was such a great stepmom to Shawn-Douglas and she was the one that healed Bo and brought happiness into their lives again after Hope was presumed dead. She was nurturing when Shawn D almost lost his hearing. They had a strong bond. I think he even called her mom at some point. I remember fans thinking that Carly left pregnant with Bo's child with Lawrence..That storyline of their reconciliation was so rushed and nonsensical..There was no buildup, it came out of nowhere. I think it was because Crystal left the show due to behind the scenes issues...If they could bring back Chelsea a miscarried fetus alive..They could have said that Lawrence threatened Carly's unborn child for her to leave with him...It would have been better than giving Carly an insipid daughter like Melanie with Dr Tan...

Yes, on As the world turns Tom and margo were recasted numerous times....They were still wildly popular.... Yes, on As the world turns Tom and margo were recasted numerous times....They were still wildly popular....

I agree. I don't consider Adrienne Sami's aunt. However, I am caribbean and back home we would call Adrienne auntie because she is our uncle's sister..Lucas is going to get his heart broken because Justin and Adrienne will get back together....I am not so sure that Will and Sonny will be endgame, since they have destroyed them and Will in particular.. Plus Sparkle is their version of EJ..EJ got in the way of Lumi finally being together... Back when Ej was getting to know Sami, the same arguments that are being used against Will were used against Lucas..People were saying that EJ was tall, had an accent, better looking, looked better with Sami.. Better chemistry, Lucas was too judgemental of Sami..Therefore Sami should turn her back on lucas...They also shared a child and that was not enough for them to reunite...Even if Paulson gets together, I am sure that Corday will destroy them..He has done it with every couple...Why should they be any different...I will be happy when that happens..I had to suffer watching Lumi and Wilson get destroyed in favor of interlopers... I just realized that Will was the captain of his baseball team in High School, they could have used that to bond Will and Sparkle when they were getting to know each other through their love of baseball...Since these writers write plot points instead of characters, they miss all the beats when writing their stories.... If the show wanted to give John a long lost son. He should have been the son of John/Marlena..When Marlena's plane went down and she was presumed dead. She could have been pregnant and in a coma. Her baby could have been raised by Stefano as his son raised to hate the Bradys..Imagine the drama that would have ensued with John and Marlena dealing with their son having been raised by their arch enemy...It would not retcon history like Sparkle being John's son..

Steve who is Adrienne's brother was married to Kayla, Sami's aunt through Roman...Steve is Sami's uncle through marriage, so Adrienne was her aunt through marriage as well. Don't forget that Sonny and Will share JJ, Abigail, Stefanie, Joey, Brady, Bo, Chelsea, Steve, Kayla, Jack, Philip and Zack who is deceased as relatives...For example Kayla is Will's great-aunt by blood, while Kayla was Sonny's Aunt through marriage via Steve, his blood uncle....

Lumily is Lucas, Sami, Allie, Will and Arianna...Lumi and their descendants...lol