Your Aunt Tilly

Hi, first time poster to this forum. I watched Days back during its heyday in the 80's through the mid-90's. I stopped around the time of Marlena's possession. I got sucked back in during the "Newsalem" plot, and haven't watched since. Until about 2 weeks ago - I saw it on the guide when I turned on the tv. I turned it on out of curiosity and it SUCKED ME BACK IN!!! How does this show do that??? Anyway, I was compelled to post today because when Vivian introduced Steffan, at first I thought it was Lucas standing there scowling. I don't know if it was the camera angle, the expression on his face, or what it was. But I honestly thought that Vivian had gotten Lucas a haircut, dressed him in a suit, and paraded him in front of the party claiming he was Steffano. Or I thought it was going to be another stupid "plastic surgery" storyline where they recast Steffano and would say it was all plastic surgery. So the "secret baby" storyline actually made sense after thinking all that. I also wanted to comment on Jennifer's hair. I think part of the problem might be that she's going gray, and her gray hairs could very well be resistant to color. I have that kind of gray - color lasts a day or two on my grays. Since I have brown hair and refuse to go gray yet, I "remedy" this by coloring the rest of my hair very light and then toning it. The gray tends to look more like highlights this way, but I'm sure I look like I enjoy having tacky fake blond hair. But at this age (44) plus the fact that I'm trying to start a new career and am concerned about age discrimination, I'd rather people think I have slightly tacky taste than to think I'm going gray. Her hair could probably be helped if the non-gray hair wasn't being colored such a golden blond - the golden tone really makes the gray stick out like a sore thumb.

My pelvis was messed up from my 2nd pregnancy and didn't go back to normal for years afterwards. In fact, when child was 3 I re-aggravated it running and was back to walking weird again. That said, I wish they hadn't written the pregnancy in. The show didn't do a good job with it. It would have been much better to hide Ohndrea's belly behind a big bag or a potted plant or something.

I am pretty sure (and I could be imagining this since it's been about 8 years since I've seen the entire series) that the man holding his dead son under the tree ("He dead!") telling Charles to tell Miss Beadle that it's too nice a day to be in school is also holding a dead son ("He dead too!") under a tree talking about the nice weather in the Anthrax from the Cheap Mutton (Priced so Low We're Practically Giving it Away!) episode.

Eliza Jane!!!! I love it when I see Lucy Lee Flippin in any role where she has to glare at someone and act like she has a giant stick up her butt. Nothing against the actress - she seems to be a lovely person in interviews - but she seriously does the best RBF and throws the best uptight shade of any actress ever. And, come on, she's throwing the shade at Brandon. Who could blame her for that?

You're so right about the men on this show crying at the drop of a hat. They cried almost as much as Mary. Which is funny since book readers know that crying was the most shameful thing that you could do on the prairie. Not to mention trying to repair the stupid skirt that has a giant nail hole in it, compliments of Mr. Edwards! You know that Ma had to waste an entire evening darning it since fabric doesn't come cheap on the prairie.

My dad retired when I was 12. I went to his retirement party. Somebody got him a stripper. I saw my dad try to remove a rolled up piece of paper from the stripper's cleavage. I'm still traumatized.

I don't understand what her non-biological relationship to her dads has to do with anything. They are her dads and becoming attracted to adult men doesn't change that. I'm not biologically related to my dad or my brothers but I didn't become confused about our relationship when I started becoming attracted to adult males.

Yay! I'm so happy to hear this! I loved this season and I loved the new theme song. I also loved the ending of Lost so I'm good with whatever direction this goes in.

They don't appear to have moved very far. I'm assuming that they just wanted a larger house and decided that it was time to upgrade. They said "you have your own room now" to the younger daughter so I'm thinking they were sharing at the old house.

The hair wouldn't bother me so much if only the color of his hair was somewhat believable with the color of his beard.

I'll stand with you, walnutqueen! I liked it too!

This. Plus I'm sure that I've read that visiting a parent in prison is better for the child's overall well being than not visiting the parent. No matter what, their childhood is not going to be "typical." But if visiting the parent can somehow help then the child should be able to visit.

It's all I could think about when my son had a very nasty infection in his leg this past winter - especially while we were waiting for the culture results to find out if it was staph or the terrifying flesh-eating strep, and also to find out if the antibiotics that he was on were going to kill it. (He recovered fully, whew!) I'm not crazy about the pregnancy story - I think they're both very naive if they think he's going to be able to have the baby while she is in prison. Although his scene at the end indicates that he got a great big dose of reality during his visit to Cesar. I feel terrible for the kids in Cesar's care.

I haven't seen any promos at all other than still pictures so I was completely unspoiled for that scene. I'm glad I was because I don't think I would have enjoyed it as much if I had seen it before. Seeing it the first time completely in context - especially after they had given her a hard time about her lack of showering - made it much better.

My favorite moment in this episode was Black Cindy's song and dance while spraying herself down with Lysol. "Little spray here, little spray there, little spray in my underwear makes the buggies back off..."

That makeup was so disturbing! I had to hold my hand up to cover half the screen while she was on. I can NOT look at clowns! I love that it is her brother playing the role. I hadn't heard the story of how they found out that she had a twin. That really is a very lucky break for the show, isn't it?