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That clip was amazing!!! I always knew I liked Bill, but damn!!!!!

Somehow, I read that as, "No wonder Thomas is fucked in the head; the worm didn't fall far from that tree". I laughed for a solid minute. (Not a Thomas fan.)

OMG DisneyBoy! I love you!!!!!

Queried are legally married? Quinn kicked Ridge-pen and Puffy out? Really and truly? I have 30 episodes I haven't been able to watch, because if this story was going to go bad, I didn't want to see it. I keep expecting Ridge to have Eric declared incompetent and put away, and I cannot bear to see that happen. But this news gives me two rays of hope that maybe Queric will have a happy ever after. At least for a while.

I think Ridge DOES want Eric to have another attack.

THIS. This is exactly what I am afraid of. Eric may very well be temporarily knocked down as he recovers, and I can see Ridge isolating him and making sure he doesn't get the rehabilitative therapy he might need to completely recover, because Ridge doesn't want Eric alive and well. Dead would be preferable, but incapacitated will suit Ridge's purposes just as well. I hope that Eric recovers and disinherits his entire family. I get so angry at those spoiled, entitled children masquerading as adults. I'm sorry I can't think of anything sharp and funny to say about this, but it honestly makes me sick.

Yes, it appeared on top of a plateau somewhere, like it was burned into the earth. Btw, my friend last night immediately said "circuit board" when she saw the scalp design.

I think venting one's aggression can be positive or negative depending on the person. There's the idea that releasing aggression by pursuing violent experiences acts as a pressure valve, bleeding off excess aggression, and then there's the idea that the wolf you feed is the one that grows, demanding that each subsequent experience be more intense, more violent, more destructive. I think the show will explore both of these ranges of response -- remember the guy on the train casually recounting his second trip as "straight-up evil", smiling as he said those were the best weeks of his life? I don't think his fundamental moral nature was changed; he seemed to have a 'healthy' psychological remove -- or is it healthy? I love the nesting questions this show offers. And what about the causing distress to 'people' issue? Is it possible to sever the brutal act from the recipient of the violence? Is the sin the act of hurting another person, or is the sin simply the commission of the crime? Can you do something to an AI that would forever change you if you did it to a person, without having it shape the rest of your life? Or is it a poison that slowly spreads? *I missed the original Robot Rape Debate back in the day on televisionwithoutpity's Battlestar Galactica forums, and I'm looking forward to seeing how the show and we as commentators explore it.

Makes sense -- Days has a weird history of striking gold with minor teen characters and then discarding them instead of developing them. Remember that gal that JJ brought to town to pose as his girlfriend? She was smart and funny, so of course we didn't keep her around.

I watched this Sunday night with one friend and Monday night with another and I AM IN. (Despite my fears that this will only get one season -- I don't think this is going to have a massive audience -- I am willing to fall in love with it.) Love the dialogue! I'm fascinated by the way the hosts reuse their scripted language. I'm very interested in the behind the scenes world -- the intersecting storylines give the hosts a framework to exist in between being used for an 'adventure'. Love the annoying scriptwriter with the bow tie -- in that room, I would be the one yelling that you can't yank 200 hosts across that many storylines because QUALITY damnit. Loved that the villain died before he got to give his big speech. LOVE the tart QA woman -- I think her blend of anger and pragmatism is a good match for her job. Ed Harris is definitely my reason to watch -- I can't wait to see his story unfold. Very interested that there hasn't been a major malfunction for 30 years, he's been coming for 30 years, and that Dolores is the oldest host in the park. This is going to be fucking epic. I hope they are given enough seasons to play out the story!!! The scene of the night had to be Daddy Abernathy's terrifying breakdown. HOLY CRAP give that man all the awards right now. I was chilled to the bone. Beautiful writing, insanely great acting, and heartbreaking in a very strange way. At the end, when Abernathy was walking towards his (hopefully temporary) stay in storage, I was rigid with fear that the camera was going to pull back and show him and the others walking into a furnace. On a second watching, even knowing that wasn't going to happen, I was still absolutely horrorstruck. Making him walk to his own 'death' -- shudder. And might I just note, if I was nightly visited in 'dreams' by a voice demanding to know if I question my reality, and repeatedly told that if I don't give the right answers, I won't 'wake up', I think I would start to question my damned reality!

I just saw a piece of Will and Sonny's wedding -- when Caroline addressed the church. WOW. Peggy McKay KILLED IT. She was amazing.

I feel that leaving out "banging inappropriate women and being duped by them" does a real disservice to his character.

DisneyBoy, I have been watching this storyline but there are gaps where I can't find episodes and it is making me crazy. Here's what I know, I hope someone else can fill in the gaps. Somehow, Nicole came into evidence [did she steal it from Daniel?] that proved Eric was drugged and therefore raped. She and Eric were not engaged when she found it. She was going to give it to him but he professed his love and she rationalized that he had accepted leaving the priesthood and destroyed the evidence. Daniel spent May of 2014 trying to get Nicole to tell Eric what she had done, but she refused. At the end of May, Jennifer overheard Daniel and Nicole arguing about it, and, believing that Daniel would never force the issue, tracked down Eric in the park and told him the truth (for some reason, they did not air this conversation.). There was titanic fallout -- Eric and Daniel's relationship was severely strained, Daniel and Nicole's friendship was temporarily shattered, and of course, Eric descended into what would eventually become an alcoholic death spiral. The BEST part of the fallout was that Daniel broke up with Jennifer -- but not because Jennifer told Eric! Daniel was MORTALLY OFFENDED that Jennifer did not trust that he would force Nicole to tell the truth and that's why they split! Hee hee hee! (You can tell this is one of Jennifer's "I have an enormous stick up my ass" periods because of the pale lipstick, btw.)

Bitter but not petulant! I can cope with Eric being bitter if he's a grown-ass man about it.

I can tell, Apprentice79!! You write about them with a lot of passion. Thank you so much for the history lesson. I did find a stash of Stayla videos, but frankly, I'm afraid to watch them! I'm going to settle down with some early Kim and Shane -- I already like them so much.

So I've stumbled onto a ton of Shane/Kimberly clips, and I am deeply intrigued. I've always got the sense from the soap mags that there was something special about them, and I can see it. And yikes, Victor was truly atrocious back in the day. What a vile excuse for a human being. Makes his curmudgeonly self of today seem almost gnome-like in comparison! Anyway, the questions! 1. Were Kimberly/Shane as special as they seem? 2. How bad is the Kimberly / Clare / Lacey multiple personality storyline circa 1992? It looks pretty damn bad. (To my mind, the best such storyline was GL's Sonni/Solita with the insanely wonderful Michelle Forbes.) 3. Again circa 1991, who the hell is Philip? Tall guy involved with Kimberly? I've never heard of him before.

Completely agree. TK is convincing as Ridge only when he is channeling the character's worst traits. I find his yelling scenes, his explosions of temper and self-pity, to be very convincing. HOWEVER. The change in Ridge's grooming, dress, and hair is so drastic with this recast that it makes everything he does wrong. You can't change a bedrock characteristic without addressing it -- that's lazy and unjustified! Ridge was always a peacock; he wouldn't just stop being that way because it's a Tuesday. And I know there have been worse recasts; at least TK hits the right notes when it comes to being a raging entitled asshole. But his physical presence is wrong wrong wrong and it makes it impossible for me to take him seriously as Ridge. P.S. Kudos for the name "Ridgepen". Perfect!

Because she is a horrible person. I feel rather strongly that when you start screwing someone other than your husband, you ought to move out of his family's mansion.

That definitely sounds like Rafe. I think you nailed him. I'm enjoying the discussion about John/Kristen/Marlena, since I missed those years entirely.

I cannot believe how badly this show wasted GV! I just watched a clip of Nicole fantasizing about Eric wanting her, and he was *hot*, and *sexy*, and *sparkly*! I've spent so much time watching sad-sack Eric moping his way through life that I forgot how much fun GV was on GH when Lucky and Sam were seeing each other. Why did they make him a victim of Kristen? And the elephant story -- dear god, the elephant story! The very definition of boredom! Just because GV does "hangdog" well doesn't mean we want to see it week after week after week KILL ME NOW. Or, kill Daniel! And even that wasn't very interesting! It *should* have been! There should have been conflicted feelings and flashbacks to Daniel not telling him about Nicole's betrayaaaaaal, and him having to find out through Jennifer (although they didn't actually show that conversation -- wtf?) and regret over that lost friendship. Speaking of fun, Rafe just came out of his coma, and Kate has been visiting him. Those two interest me -- why did they split up? Did Kate do something stupid, or did Rafe get self-righteous, or both? Kate seems to wake him up quite a bit. I didn't mind Rafe with Jordan (speaking of a wasted actor -- CS was very good on AMC), but he wasn't exactly dynamic. Just eyebrows and mushy feelings.

I have not been able to find some key episodes, which is very frustrating. Can't find John seducing Kristen in the secret room, the first failed Brady/Kristen wedding, John telling Brady the truth about Kristen pulling away, or and this is the most frustrating, Eric confronting Nicole after Jennifer told him the truth. ARGH! I hated Kristen's subsequent return, theft of Theresa's egg, and defenestration. Total crap!

I always preferred Austin Peck's version -- his Austin was a bit of an idiot, sure, but at least there was a character there. Patrick Muldoon's Austin, for me, was devoid of personality. And besides, with Austin Peck we get his "forehead of thought"! Remember his hilarious blog back in the day? It was hysterical!

What surprises me the most about 2012-2013 is how much fun I'm having watching Kristen and how much I'm coming to detest Nicole. I had never seen much of Kristen and frankly never had any interest in her until I stumbled onto her aborted Flashdrive Wedding of Epic Awesomeness to Brady. I had to see the backstory, so I hunted it down and dove in. How much pure soapy fun was that? Kristen coming back to Salem, tormenting the SHIT out of John and Marlena, taking up with Brady, and of course, revenge-boning Eric! Frankly, tormenting Marlena was my favorite part. Kristen played her like a fiddle and it was glorious. My experience with Nicole is completely different -- the more I see of her backstory, the less I am able to root for her. Nicole always gets so hysterically offended when anyone brings up the heinous shit she's done and acts like it was in the distant past and she's a better person now. That would be fine, if NOTHING after the first dead baby lie had ever happened! But she lied about her miscarriage, tried to send Jennifer to jail, and then destroyed the evidence that would have exonerated Eric -- and that was all in the last what? 4 years? I think my biggest problem with Nicole in the 2012-2013 time period is how pathetic she was -- hopelessly in love with Eric, denying it to herself and everyone else. I keep going back to when Eric found her about to screw some ex-convict in his office -- she was FURIOUS that he accused her of nearly having sex in his office, when that was EXACTLY what she did! That side of Nicole really aggravates me -- I like her when she owns her shit, not when she's a pathetic dishrag. Show was a lot more interesting then.

Thank you so much, JBC! I was away from the show during that entire storyline, and I really appreciate the context. I love Sarah Brown; I'll have to see if there are any clips out there.

My beef with RJ is basic -- he's not angry enough about the right things. Neither of his parents have ever given a damn about him and he spent his life in boarding school. I hate his effect on Brooke, because she is at her least interesting when she's worried about being a good mother. She's not. Accept it and move the fuck on! I stumbled on some clips the other night and was reminded of how good the boardroom/press conference battles used to be. Red Suit Brooke was the best incarnation of Brooke. I think she's at an age to really carry that off now, if the show would just let her be the dynamic, intelligent, driven woman she can be.