LadyJaney

Ugh the teens are awful. Everything Abe said to Theo is true. He wasn't downing Ciara because of her rape, he just sees the crappy law-breaking choices she keeps making and doesn't want his son involved it it while she is acting out. Hope keeps telling Ciara that she needs to get help for herself, but Ciara won't listen. Why doesn't Hope ask Kayla to talk to her as a rape survivor herself? Shawn and Belle let their daughter walk all over them and don't stand their ground with her. Joey is a piece of shit who treats his mother horribly, gives props to a dad who has only just recently re-entered his life while his mother was always there. Joey is a murderer, he has no grounds to be a douchebag since these people kept his idiot self out of prison. Jade is too much like Ava. Heh, I still want her to end up being Steve/Ava's kid just so that Joey can be fully grossed out with himself for having sex with his sis. He needs something to get through that thick skull of his. Still hate that they made Chase a rapist and wiped him off the canvas. I mean, if they absolutely had to have a Ciara rape storyline (which I wish they didn't), why not have the rapist be the judge's son Mark and leave Chase out of it. Chase and Claire could have paired off and it all could still be angsty, just not with Chase being the villain. And Ciara just isn't likeable to me. And dumb about wanting to quit school and being so reckless. I'm beginning to feel like they may have her and Chad have a hook-up. Kind of gross, but it would serve Abby right for her own home-wrecking tendencies. Speaking of Abby...part of me hates how it always seems only female soap characters get locked up in mental hospitals. I felt bad to see it happen again. But then Abby, and even Chad annoyed me. These people at the hospital were doing their job and following protocol, and chad throws out the "do you know who I am? Then do it now!" crap and pissed me off. OK "Reese Witherspoon DiMera". Then when Abby wanted to call Chad, she threw the same thing at the staff, acting all entitled by her new name. Only it didn't work, haha. I'm kind of glad she is gone for now anyway, I've had my fill of Abby for a long while...

It was an OK episode, but I just don't care much for the teens anymore. I think the whole Chase/Ciara rape storyline, Ciara's unlike-ability, and don't even get me started on Joey...well, i gave up caring about them. Certain scenes were cure though... Found it funny that Claire was asking Belle about growing up in the 80's or 80's style because Belle wasn't born until sometime in the 90's... Oh soap timelines... But then again, Brady and Summer look to be about the same age which means that Maggie was 17 when Isabella and John had Brady...OK sure... I think Joey is the worst and I hate when kids yell at their parents about stuff they know nothing about and the parents let them. Kayla is by far the smartest in that Johnson family trio, yet gets shit on all the time by them. I will always adore Patch, but he's kind of an idiot sometimes. Ciara/Vivian Jovanni has the same awkward, monotone acting ticks that Kristen Stewart has...that's who she reminds me of acting-wise.

Liked some of today's show and other parts made no sense. Loved seeing Theresa re-visit her snarky side and call out Summer and not hide it in front of Brady. Theresa knows a player when she sees one because she used to be one. I hope she doesn't back down to Brady and keeps it up. This is part of who Theresa is, whether he likes it or not. The Eric stuff was interesting. Gosh, Eric and Jen had chemistry and could have been good, but it all happened right at the end for them. Imagine if Jen finds out she is preggers?! How old is Jen supposed to be now, is it possible? She would have to give up the pills and it would be a high risk pregnancy if it happened. At least Eric would have something to come home to when he gets out. The flashback of Victor and Helena...Err...is it supposed to be 30 years ago, is that what they are selling with this? That would mean it was around 1986 then. Wasn't Victor/JA on the show in 1986? Wasn't he involved with Kim and thought he might be Andrew's father around then? I know he came onto the Salem scene around that time anyway, and he sure as hell didn't look anything like "flashback Victor" from that scene... But then again we are supposed to believe that Summer is the product of 17-year old Maggie and Summer looks no older than 40-ish. Maggie/SR is not under the age of 60, hell Peter Reckell/Bo and and Stephen Nichols/Patch would be older than Maggie then. Huh? Marie Wilson is a decent actress and pretty, but got cast in a weird character that makes little to no sense. They could have utilized her much better as Maggie's daughters Melissa or Sarah. Why does it seem that nobody from the Horton clan ever visits Maggie? Poor Eric, he's too pretty for prison. He's going to be somebody's prison-bitch in no time at all. Sigh..

I enjoyed Eduardo and Adriana today. They seem very natural, I can buy that this was his great love and wants her forgiveness. She shows just the right amount of anger and empathy toward him. They were being such mature adults having a mature adult conversation. Such a rarity on a soap! Then of course Dario had to show up like a yelly Neanderthal, speaking for his mother as if she were to stupid or weak-minded to speak for herself. She's all set, dario, back off! I liked how when Ed asked her to have breakfast with him and Dario said "no" and she quickly responded that she would see him the next day. Mama H has some spunk, I really like her. And I want her and Eduardo to work things out. I also liked how Caroline snarked at Rafe about being a "crazy old woman" when her looked alarmed at Hope telling her about Stefano. He didn't know what to say! Nicole and Deimos have loads of chemistry, if he can get her to move on from stupid Daniel, he gets tons of redemption points for what he did to Maggie and Victor! The Rafe/Hope kiss was OK. I didn't really care one way or another. Why is Hope still at Jen's? The fire at her place wasn't so bad that she would be gone that long. The crime scene after Bo killed Aidan looked worse than what that fire did and she moved right back in after that. Maybe it's only been a few days, I can never tell the time on this show...

I have to say that I am getting really tired of the show right now. I hate, hate, hate, all the cover-ups that are happening. If you are a Horton or a Brady, you get your crime cleared covered up. The only reason Eric is paying for his crime was because it was against the sainted Daniel. Andre is paying for the crime Hope committed, and Chase is paying for a crime against a Brady/Horton hybrid. Nepotism and crimes go hand-in-hand in Salem... Gross Abby is just gross. The whole storyline is gross. I still blame her for being the driving force behind Ben's crazy snap. He seemed just fine before he met her and went all off the rails after she kept up her serial-cheating and lies. Granted there is no excuse for what Ben did, but has Abby ever even thought about the fact that she brought this man into their lives, that he started killing after her went nuts over her cheating and lies? She never even thought about anything but herself and Chad's penis. I wonder if she will end up in the loony bin. On the one hand, it couldn't happen to a nicer person. But on the other...why is it only ever the women who seem to get locked up? Every soap...The women go crazy and end up in an asylum. You never see the guys there. Granted, if it gets Abby off my screen for a while, lock her up! I actually like Eric and Jen together. I would love to see them work together to heal and still stay strong, but Eric is off to jail. What a wasted opportunity. Steve and Kayla are just sad now. I love these two, but don't love the writing that is being done for them... The Chase/Ciara plot just made me sick, I'm glad to not see it on my screen lately. I still hate how they destroyed and wasted Chase. And I still don't like Ciara... Oh show...

This exactly. Rape is wrong and horrible, I should feel nothing but contempt for him. yet I still feel this sadness for him and want someone to reach out and help him. I don't like how any of this has been done. They never should have had Chase rape Ciara. Too many other storylines have been destroyed with the younger set when they did this. They could have had him even get too close but pull away before he did anything, and Ciara still be freaked out by it. Then they could have worked through those issues without it being the point of no return. That entire plot gives me an icky feeling and I just would rather it all go away at this point... And yet again we see and hear people cry over Daniel...and all I think about in these moments is when was the last time anyone in Salem mentioned the name Bo Brady?!

Something is wrong with how a story is being told or acted out if I find myself feeling sad for a character that is a known rapist. Jonathan McClendon just looks like such a sad lost puppy, and though what Chase did is Wrong Wrong Wrong, he just seems so weak and pathetic. Like he needs guidance or something. He did this horrible thing, but he knows it and shows remorse, he is doing desperate things out of desperation, he doesn't come off as menacing in any way. I'm not sure what the hell they are doing with this plot, but I see they have ruined this character, yet I still don't hate him. Yet, I find myself disliking Ciara. Yelly, teeth-gritty, broken-record Ciara. I think it's the acting more than anything, but the actors make her seem so cold and bitchy and him seem so sad and pathetic. WTF writers?! I keep feeling like Ciara or somebody is going to do something bad to Chase, and he already seems like a sad, pathetic mess. Years back when Alan raped Sami, he was such a bastard, and AS's Sami showed a vulnerability with all of her badass nature that you cheered her on for shooting Alan in the junk. Ciara just seems cold and Chase just seems so crestfallen. What is it I'm supposed to feel here? Thing is...rape is wrong. What Chase did was wrong. I hate this story and how it has been written. Characters with potential have been ruined and the acting is all off for what has happened. I don't like how this storyline makes me feel. I just want it wrapped up and never mentioned again.

Favorite line today was when Nicole told Deimos he was creeping her out "Put your eyes back in your head!" and the way she delivered it--Awesome! Oddly I might enjoy Nicole and Deimos together as a pair. I also liked that scene with Maggie and Theresa. Perhaps Victor will treat Nicole a little better since she essentially saved his life today....Nah, Victor is too much of a misogynist for that... OK episode today, nothing special but nothing horrible either

Oh yay, an Abby-centric episode... [/sarcasm] So many layers of wrong with it (beside the obvious that it all revolved this one character): **Why was the house and all the rooms so dark before the power went out if Abby was so scared? I'd have every light on! **The power went out--you mean to tell me that the DiMera mansion doesn't have a generator? **With all the money they had, they didn't have more security guards **in** the house in case there was an issue? Chad and JJ and some outside guards clearly weren't cutting it here **If Abby and Thomas's safety were top priority, why did they keep leaving her and the baby all alone? Every time something sketchy happened, they took off and left her unguarded! **Why does Abby come off so bitchy all the time, even when she is supposed to be afraid? I just want this storyline to be over with and fast!

This and This. Summer seems to be 40 to mid-40's tops. Maggie I'm guessing is close to 70 if not. I just don't see this woman being the product of a teen pregnancy. Not for Maggie anyway! I could have seen her play Melissa easily. It would have been good to have that character back on canvas again actually, she has some good history. Even could have made her Sarah at this point, since she is a bit older now too. Maggie has all these adopted daughters that were once a mainstay on this show and now are never seen. Why not bring one of them back. Especially one that seems too young for what they are selling here.

Ah yeah, forgot about that. Who knows if the writers remembered, or that Paul was the only one of John's kids that wasn't involved in a story line. I still think that Rama-Lama-Ding-Dong figured that Paul was the smarter of John's children and didn't want to go through the painful chore of brainwashing idiot Brady. Gah, Abby makes it hard for you to feel bad for her when she comes off so bitchy and snobby and gross all the time. All that weird inappropriate smiling she does when people say something she doesn't like. She is just so disagreeable about every freaking thing! People always have to cow-tow to her moods it seems. I laughed when JJ was holding the tip of her nightie. I know it was supposed to be to keep the finger-prints off for evidence, but he looked more that he didn't want to touch the grody thing and suspected it got ripped during one of his sister's skanky romps. He looked more like a grossed out little brother than a cop in that moment, haha. Yes the Hernandez clan is starting to shape up the way the Vega clan did on OLTL (and later the Ford clan). They were too much at times. I forget, is an old OLTL writer writing for Days now? It would explain a lot. A Lot. I hate how the Hernandez men were trying to protect and shield mami. Like she is something helpless because she is a woman. She seemed to be holding her own just fine despite them. I have to say I really liked the John and Marlena scene today near the end. When he was saying how he wished she hadn't gone looking for him and she stood her ground and said that she would and was he more mad because she is a woman. I always want the females of soap to hold their own like that. And when he said it was because she was "his woman" and the look that she gave him-- you go girl! John quickly back-peddled and said that he just would never want anything to happen to her because she is his world. It was a good scene. John is married to a badass who is willing to play with the boys to get the job done, and John know it. Props to badass Marlena! I wondered this too, and wondered if it would be something else Dim-Sum tried to brainwash Paul out of. Like all the sudden Paul was a trained assassin and straight. Seems like something they would try to pull on a soap, if they weren't sure how to write for Paul these day. Luckily, it seems like they didn't take it that far Yeah, that's a confusing tongue-twister of names. Maybe they figure they can use Adriana now that they barely ever show Adrienne anymore...Sigh.

Some observations of recent Days: So glad they wrapped up the character of Ding-a-Ling/Wang Chung/Chow Mein/Rama-Lama-Ding-Dong-- At least we finally know who John's family was, his past, why it happened. That has been playing out for decades, he has his answers. I laughed that the only child of John's that Rama-Lama-Ding-Dong chose was Paul. Maybe because Dim-Sum was pretending to be Asian and Paul is partly of Asian decent. But I figured it was more that Paul was the best choice out of the idiot children that John has. Belle is female and I'm sure that Chow Mein didn't want the "girl child" to carry on his missions. Then there's Brady...sure he just had heart surgery, but more than that Brady is just a moron. Hard to brain-wash the brain-less! I think that the thing about Joey that bugs me the most is that constant loud whiny tone that he says everything in. It's like a whiny child having a tantrum, only he is in his upper teens. He yells and whines everything. I have never seen this young man be anything but whiny, loud and dramatic. Ugh. Shut up! Throw his ass in juvie. I have noticed how much Jade resembles Ava. She's as weird as her too. I could see her being "the child". Ugh though. Jade and Ava both have the duck-face thing going on. Roman is the worst. Must be nice to have a police commissioner that chooses nepotism over the law. There have been two murders in his town and because they were family, he has turned a blind eye to it, knowing that they happened and who did them. The law is the law here, buddy. If he doesn't like you, you pay the crime. If he does like you, you can murder someone and walk free. he'll even let an innocent person take the fall for you, knowing that they didn't. He is so corrupt. The Salem PD and most of their cops are corrupt. I so want them to be brought down just out of principal. I'm sick of the teens. I just don't like nu-Ciara. I don't feel for her. I don't especially like any of them at this point. The only one I liked and cheered on they decided to make a rapist and cart away. That whole plot was a bad decision and a waste of a good actor and character. Yuck!

Bahahaha, and yes I agree! yeah, that wedding seemed pretty weak-assed, between the rushed status of it, the gloomy surroundings, and the vast amount of no-shows. Gah, they are married. When Abby said "I'm leaving Salem...tonight" I was saying to myself "please do!" Eric was annoying when he called out Jen. She wasn't even acting odd and he came over and made a rude remark. Then he goes for the bottle. Maybe it's time he gets locked up. I have a speculation on the Chase thing that may be the only way he could possibly be redeemed...and it's the oldest trick in the book when a character has gotten so bad that they seem un-fixable. Wait for it...a brain tumor! It seems when character are all sorts of wrong that once the "tumah" is gone, all is forgiven. Like I said, this is my speculation and nothing else. Then there is Joey...dumb pretty Joey. Thing is, nobody seems to realize what a f'd up mess he truly is. He is more worried about his father going to jail or how Steve could be acquitted, willing to confess to spare his dad, but never focusing on one certain thing. The thing that even his parents seem to not be focusing on. That Joey was capable of murdering someone. Whether or not he was drunk, the boy loss control and murdered another person. Nobody seems to look at that and see the wrong. Ava or not--murder is murder. But then again Hope killed Stefano and everyone swept in under a rug. Hell they swept Stefano himself into a rug and tossed him out in an old building. But as wrong and corrupt as she and the Salem PD were, i can even accept it slightly more than Joey. Hope was tortured by Stefano for many many years, she felt he was the reason Bo died. She has seen and done and been through much more in life than young Joey. She would be more capable of committing this than he should at his age. His life hasn't been put through that much of a ringer to be pushed to kill. Joey is just creepy.

This...and ...And this. I FF'd through the teens capture of Chase yesterday because the whole thing just feels so foul to me. It is such a waste of a character with potential played by a decent and affable young actor, and it just came so far out of left field that i have a hard time buying this whole storyline. I get that Chase has a crappy life and a messed up past, I even get his odd cyber-bully plot with Theo and his crush on Ciara...but the rape? It just seems so out of place, it doesn't fit in this., They took the time to age the character, get a decent actor who you want to see rise above it. But no... They gave him a fraking Horton ornament, for heaven's sake! Hope wanted to raise him as her child and included him as such Ciara seemed to worry about him when he took off Ciara seemed to find him intriguiging in a dangerous (?) way on the Valentine episode, like they were considering a love triangle Claire liked him and they had chemistry There aren't many teens who aren't related in the Horton/Brady/Johnson triangle WTF? Chase was a character I was hoping would get it together after maybe some small scrapes with trouble along the way. I wanted him and Ciara to become friends and be like siblings, I wanted him and Claire to explore a romance. But this plot-point disaster happened and I don't see how he can ever come back from this one. Is Jonathan McClendon even long for the show now? I hated the way it wrapped up. I don't see Chase as a cocky kid who wanted to get away with this. He came off more as tortured and guilty as soon as it happened. The Teen "scooby" crew seemed pretty awful in their attack of someone who is already gutted and hates his life. Claire seemed more vengeful and I took it as anger from her once romantic interest in him more than her wanting to seek justice. They all seemed cruel. I felt more pain fro Chase and still sort of do, and I don't like that I feel this because of what he actually did. He raped Ciara and that is horrible. Yet the storyline just feels so off that it isn't translating right and it makes me hate the whole thing and all the teen characters because of this. I want Chase to just go off to jail and that be the end of it. I don't want to see or hear any more about this. I don't want to see him tortured more, I don't want to see Ciara feel tortured anymore. I just want it all to go away. "la la la la.." Abby seems like such a spoiled princess whenever she is on, that everyone has to carefully word things to keep her happy so she won't go off and be all upset or bitchy. That was one weak-assed looking wedding at the mansion today. Clearly Abby has no friends if she couldn't even find a replacement maid-of-honor beyond Gabi. Her dress and veil were pretty, but the whole thing was strange and felt so ruched. Is it because KM is leaving soon? Ben looked super creepy at the end, I loved that part. I can't with the stuff at the end with John Black. I just can't even...

I didn't get the whole thing with JJ and Chad not telling Abby about Ben being out on the loose. Like they mustn't upset the princess or worry her mind. Frankly, I think it would be better to give her a head's up that her crazy ex in on the loose so she can be a little more mindful of her surroundings. It always seems like people try to candy coat the situations that go on around Abby so that she doesn't need to worry about a thing...and she seems to like them doing this for her so she can go about her own thing. smh... He'll probably show up on her wedding day and swoop in ans take her away with him or something crazy like that. perhaps that's how they will usher KM out of the role... I still hate the whole Chase/Ciara rape storyline. Why? I still think Chase and Claire have chemistry but all that is ruined with Chase being a rapist. I wish this plot weren't happening. Really: Hope is a murderer and Rafe an accomplice and Roman covered it up. They are all corrupt cops Chase gets established as an honorary Horton at Christmas and two months later becomes a rapist to the girl he was living with as a step sister. He can't be redeemed now. Ciara was a fun/mischievous kid who was suddenly aged and instead of giving her strength and spunk, they victimized her in a way that so many female characters seem to be violated on this soap. Why? Joey murders a woman in her hospital bed and his parents are covering it up instead of getting his messed up ass some help. How is he going to come back from this? I just don't get these really dark, awful "point of no return" stories for characters who should not be in these scenes. I want them to wake up from a Bobby Ewing dream and realize that none of it really happened. I want a unicorn too.

I always wished that had just kept Drake as Roman. I know Wayne Northrop wanted back and they fixed things to make it happen, but he barely stuck around, whereas Drake has stuck around for ages. Such a shame and a waste. Josh Taylor is just such a marble-mouth when he speaks, I always think he is drunk or something. Roman Brady should be a bit of a patriarch to the Brady clan but he has been so marginalized he's just a pod Brady more than anything else. I see Ciara as what went wrong with Starr Manning on OLTL as she grew up. Different circumstances (Starr wasn't raped, and the same child actor played her into adulthood), but the same endgame. Both were feisty mischievous children who should have grown into interesting layered adults. But both became whiny simpering generic versions of their former selves. I kind of felt that about Stephanie Johnson too. The red-haired actress who played her for a time as a grown Stephanie, seemed interesting and full of potential. Then Barbie "I'm an adult because I had sex since you last saw me" Stephanie returned, and she was dumb and vapid and could have been any random young female character, not the product of Steve and Kayla (not that Joey is the pillar of wisdom either, but I'm hoping he'll grow a brain and a pair eventually). Characters like Sami grew into a multi-layered character with many sides that sometimes you love, sometimes you hate. JJ is someone who is showing so much more potential. Even Abby, as annoying as she is, has ties to a lot of the show. I just wish she wasn't such a pill. same with Eric, he's getting interesting now as his days on Days are probably numbered. Claire is showing potential too. I guess I just want and expect more from the legacy children on these shows...

Amen to that. I would like to see some smart story-telling, but that almost seems like an oxymoron for this show. The sad part is that I liked Chase and felt for him and was pulling for his character...then this happened. Like you, I just can't forgive a rapist on these shows. As much as I liked Jack Deveraux I never forgot what he did to Kayla, and back when he was first put with Jen and was something of a comic relief, I was almost annoyed because I knew what his character was capable of. It was only later when i saw him as more of a darker character that I softened toward him. But alas, i still never forgot. Same with Todd on OLTL and Luke on GH. If Chase stays on long-term and is the rapist that they are portraying him to be, he will be no better. And it's sad and it's a waste. This did not have to happen here, there has been more than enough rape on Days over the years that they could have bypassed yet another one. That's why I hope that Chase is just telling Andre that he did, but stopped himself before he did anything to Ciara. That would also explain away why she didn't change her clothes yet. But I fear it's just more lazy story-telling than anything with logic attached to it. If Days keeps getting darker, with teen rapes, Hope and Rafe being hypocritical villains and framing creepy Andre when he is actually innocent for once, The weird Brady/Summer stuff, the endless mourning of Daniel, and the grossness that is Ava...I may have to shut it off again and remove it from the DVR. It's still holding my interest, but I think I'm waiting for it to turn around a bit too.

No, I was thinking more in the terms of if Chase found out he was Steve's son that he and Joey may be brothers in conflict the way Steve and Jack were for a long time in the beginning. Also, this is all my ideas for if they tried to redeem Chase in some way. If he didn't go through with the act, this is what could have been. But I'm guessing it'll play out that he did truly go through with it, and I just can't see him being redeemed from this. Not really sure of the timeline of the Steve/Ava baby's age. So I just put the child at Chase's age. I'm a little surprised to see Ciara still wearing the torn skirt and clothes from her attack. Usually on the soap you will see the victim shower and change out of her clothing. But I suppose, as in real life, everyone reacts differently. Good question as to where Jen and Eric are. I figured after the kiss, where Eric was drunk and Jen was high that maybe they were off having sex or something. maybe they are. This is the same day/nigh right? The next morning, they might wake up in bed not knowing how they got there the night before...

Still my wishful thinking and hopes is that Chase did not 'go all the way" as he told Andre but is making him think he did to work with Andre to reveal his deeds to Hope and all. My wishful theory: Chase was listening to Andre and went over to see Ciara and had that awful moment where he pushed her down and was ready to have his way with her. Suddenly he realizes what he has done and stops before going any further and leaves. Ciara is still traumatized by what almost happened and doesn't want to see Chase after this. Chase realizes what he almost did and that he was swayed by Andre's words. He knows that Hope had warned him and Ciara about him and realizes that Andre is using him as a pawn. He then tries to one-up Andre by letting him think he did rape Ciara in order to gain his trust and see what Andre's next plan is. Once he knows his agenda he will go to Hope and he will be dealt with. Perhaps he feels in a small way he can make it up to Ciara for what he almost did. Chase will confess what happened, Hope will be conflicted but not want him near Ciara. Ciara will be conflicted too and steer clear of him until she heals from the trauma and someday forgives him. She and Theo grow closer. Chase feels like a pariah in Salem. Claire is the one who comes to his side and they slowly fall for each other. Chase hesitates because he feels he has it within him to be a monster, but Claire tells him otherwise. Claire and Ciara have difference due to Chase. Somewhere in the mix,the truth comes out that Chase is the child of Ava and Steve. He blames his "monster" side on Ava and hates her or maybe is close to her because he feels he is his mother's son. However, Steve tries to be a father to him and show his the ways of redemption along with Claire by his side. They are the next generation of a Steve/Kayla romance. (Claire=Kayla, Chase=Steve, Steve=mama Jo, Ava=Duke, Joey=Jack) What do you think? I so want this to be the case. I hate to think that Chase is a full-on rapist and dumb enough to trust Andre. However, I very, very little faith in these writers and feel they would take the lazy approach to this storyline. I wonder if Jonathan McClendon has a long-term or short-term contract with the show. that could also determine Chase's fate.

This is what I'm wondering too. I hope that the attack didn't happen. If they want to keep Chase/JMc on canvas, they have to make him redeemable in some way. My hope is that though he pushed her down and thought about doing it that he came to his senses and got away from her and left before he could. While, he was still out of control and assaulted her, he stopped before it got to a point of no return. She would still be feeling traumatized by what happened and by someone who lived with her like a brother. He would realize how out of control his life has gotten and what he came close to doing. The text would make more sense. The reason there was no blood on the couch or her would make more sense. The whole thing would make more sense. I wish they hadn't gone this direction in any way, shape or form. I hope they don't reveal that he fully attacked her and violated her to the furthest degree. Oh show... Some of the current plot-lines are really bad, but yet the show has me fully engaged. I can't stand Andre, but I hate that Hope and Rafe have become so corrupt and are framing him for everything they did...and that Roman is such a dumb-shit. Jen and Eric have tons of chemistry, but their current predicaments are so foul. And don't even get me started on Brady having St Daniel's heart, and apparently his brain too. WTF?

Ugh, I would love to know who's "wonderful" idea it was to make Chase a rapist? Because no! I liked him, I was rooting for him, but if he goes through with this, there is no turning back. You can't redeem him and make it OK. That was always a stigma stuck to Jack, and for some (myself included) though I ended up liking the character years later, I never forgot what he did to Kayla. Same with Luke Spencer and Todd Manning from their soaps, they may have been redeemed and a well-liked staple, but the fact that they committed rape was always there. Chase is too new to fall under such a category. Either he is a bad guy after this, and they better play him off as such, or he isn't long for the show. Too bad either way. I had high hopes for him, more than most of the younger set. I rather enjoy Jonathan McClendon. I just hope that we see him stop himself in the next episode before he goes though with it. I want him to be the one who stops himself before he hurts her and realize that he has spun out of control and needs to get his life together. That is the only way he can be spared in this. And that would still cause the angst and friction with him and Ciara, it would still make him a character in need of fixing, but if he shows enough control to come to his senses before he goes any further, there is hope for redemption. Anything else will just suck, and I fear that is where it is heading... Why show, why?

Observations about this week's shows thus far: *They made it seem painfully obvious that Chase was Theo's bully, but I wish that they hadn't. especially if his reason was that he was jealous because he has a thing for Ciara. I was hoping he was just covering up for someone or was being set up or something like that. I do feel bad for Chase nonetheless. He is clearly messed up from his dad's death and so forth. I also don't see chem with him and Ciara, I see it more in the few scenes he has had with Claire. I also think it is beginning to look like he could be the long-lost Steve/Ava child. *I don't necessarily think that Claire has a bad voice, just a voice that is made for a certain style of song. It is limited, but decent in like a jazz singer sort of way. I think they keep giving her all the wrong songs to sing. yet, while I don't dislike her voice, I also don't think it is Julliard ready. *Eew, Steve and Ava today, just gross. Patch may be a lot of things, but he was never as stupid as they are making him in this Ava story line. I hate that they are making him seem so dumb. And Ava is just a nasty, skanky mess. Those creepy black dead-eyes with the dark circles under them and her creepy demeanor. I just can't stand her. I don't necessarily dislike Tamara Braun but I also have yet to ever like a character she has played on any soap at any time. Also, Joey is just an annoying pain in the butt, talk about a drama-queen! And poor Kayla! She must need some water or food or at least need to pee by now, the poor thing! *Belle is just one cold-hearted bitch! She was unnecessarily cruel to Eve today. I mean, she was really awful in some things she said. Uncalled for. She clearly doesn't have the time or the desire to be a mother to her own daughter, she'd rather go sniffing around Philip. And Shawn...dude, at this point you can do so much better and I wish you would. I don't remember Belle ever being this foul! *OK, this really needs to stop with the Daniel Jonas love-fest! Cripes, why did they even kill him off? He's getting more air-time dead than he even did alive and he got a lot then! Now the new company Nicole and Theresa are starting will be named after him, proceeds to his favorite charities. I can see them dedicating hospital stuff to his name if they must, but a clothing line? Dude never dressed that well! I'm waiting for the episode when Maggie, Nicole and all go to visit the Vatican and ask the Pope to canonize Daniel for saint-hood. Wait for it, it's coming! That's all I got.

Is this the same cabin where Abby and EJ did the deed multiple times. If so, they really need to replace that mattress or at the very least flip it over! Ah the teen set, I like them all, but there needs to be more of them as most of them are related. A non-related female to get Joey's mind off of scary Ava would be nice. I want Claire and Chase to get together for some reason because i just think they look adorable together ("Chair" or "Chaise" would be their moniker). Ciara...I like her alright, I could still see her realizing that she is a lesbian for some reason. If not, maybe she needs a really manly dude or something. I think Theo is extremely good looking, would like to see him find love too, not feeling it with Ciara and him. I agree that Allie and Johnny should be added in the mix, even though they are also related to many as they are also Bradys. Seems like most of the teens are Brady/Horton/Johnson hybrids of one sort or another. Not a lot of romance possibility there. I don't know what Rafe would think could happen with him and Hope. She has never chosen him or even really seen him as a romantic possibility. She was with Bo and after Bo went with Aidan and after Aidan went back to Bo. Rafe has never fit in the equation, why would he keep chasing that?

I have to say that I did think BB looked good today in his return of Shawn. I loved Jason Cook in the role, but Beemer is growing on me. It's funny of JC looks like he favored his father Bo, but BB looks like he favors his mother Hope. He does look like her. I'm curious to see him in scenes with hope and nu-Ciara. They would look like family. I still think he looks too young to be nu-Claire's father. Didn't Beemer and NB date IRL for quite a while? Now she is married and expecting, hopefully they parted on good terms and don't mind working together again. Oh, how I have always adored VI. I agree that it is ridiculous to have him be Victor's brother. Long lost son or nephew I'd buy a hell of a lot more. I'm surprised Abby didn't choose to go after Kiriakis men over Dimera men. There are more of them, and most of them are pretty damn good-looking. Victor would be calling her a whore instead of Theresa, Eve, Chloe, Nicole, etc, etc. They need to find Kayla and STAT. Once she is found, I don't see how Ava can explain that one. Unless Kayla loses her memory as to how she got wherever she is stashed. Still grossed out with how easily Belle blew off her daughter and made plans with Philip. What a gross mother she is. Does she even care about what happens to Claire, where she is, if she is getting her needs met while she is away? I know Claire is a teenager and not a baby, and is staying with John/Marlena...but she is still a minor and her mother should be looking out for her, not taking off with her skeevy ex.

If the writers are trying to portray Abby as a self-centered egotistical bitch, they did a great job today. On the one hand, they always have people say how sweet and loving she is, but nothing about today gave me that inclination. She was rude and snippy just because her family wasn't giving in to her latest whim. And to them especially it has to look like that. Her mother is physically and emotionally bruised these days, and the last thing she needed was Abby's little display. And the eye-roll when Jen mentioned that Nicole and Daniel were supposed to get married on Valentine's day at the church, either KM made a really bad acting choice in that moment or Abby was supposed to be flippant. I'm not even sure. But Abby seems to be so caught up in her own little fairy tale existence, that she doesn't see what a mess her mother is right now. I loved JJ so much for calling her out on Ben and EJ, because that was what was going through my mind. Good enough! I'm liking that boy more and more! I wish I knew where they Abby stuff is faltering more. Is it the weird writing of her character, or is it KM's portrayal? Perhaps a little of both? I can't quite figure it out, but where I was once indifferent to her, I am starting to really, really dislike this character. Ugh Joey. What a dumb young man. Crying all alone in his house over this zombie-like, chicken wing of a woman. Ava needs to be gone already. Not a fan of TB really. And what is to happen to poor Kayla now? I loved how she called Ava out on everything, but didn't like what Ava did to her at the end. Ugh Hope and Rafe. I seriously just want the truth to come out and be resolved however it may be. Enough is enough, they are ruining these characters with this storyline.