bantering

Justin sounded like the way I expect Roman too, or when Bo and Hope team up (sometimes those two can be really annoying when interrogating someone). I wasn't used to it. It almost seemed out of character.

Yeah, I found Justin really annoying today. Normally, he's more...subtle? Good lord, today, he was so over-the-top. I do think crazy Ben has accomplished the job of making Abigail seem reasonable. In this storyline, I can't find any real reason to take a jab at her. Now I get the point of making this character a nut-job. But once this storyline is over, watch out! I'll be ready to take aim!

I think I liked it better when Abigail was snooty -- maybe the snootiness gave her a bit of an edge (an annoying edge, but an edge nonetheless?) Now it seems like the life has been sucked out of her, and I'm wondering why I have to see a whole storyline revolving around her corpse-like personality.

I couldn't help but laugh when Ben screamed "Oh my gawwwwwd, Abigail." It would have been even funnier if he was actually sane. Darn, why'd they have to make him a nutcase?

I thought the guy playing Bo had said he wouldn't come back to Days. What changed his mind?

If it's real, I didn't get how the tape of Bonnie as a kid even existed. I guess I don't understand why a criminal would want proof floating around of what he was doing (not that criminals aren't stupid at times).

I feel like Salem is in the Dark Ages -- where are the forensic specialists? I don't think it makes sense for anybody to think Chad did all of these murders, but with Sami I'll assume grief is clouding her judgment. I think Rafe and Hope are trying to figure out it's not Chad, but the fact they're not hiring someone from Forensic Files to help them out is killing me. I'm more agitated with those two for not catching up with police technology. The show is probably trying to make Rafe seem smarter than everyone else by suspecting Ben, but he too comes off like a doofus for not using science to help him out in this investigation.

She no longer does the weird judgmental looks, but without that Abigail pretty much has zero personality. It's like her whole personality was based on casting side-eye, and now that that's gone, there's ...poof...nothing.

It seems like KM is as bored by her character as I am. She seems so blase about what's going on in her acting.

Since the Salem PD keep insisting that Chad is the killer, I can see why Sami would be inclined to think so too. What I don't get is why the Salem PD don't have any DNA or fingerprint specialists to prove Chad isn't the killer. Ben seems to always be killing people with his bare hands. And since he's so sloppy at killing, I feel the Salem PD should know that Ben is the killer and that nothing about how the Salem PD have drawn their conclusions makes sense. The flashbacks to Abigail and Chad talking about their sex-a-thon while Ben punches Chad's lights out was kind of weird, but different....I guess. Kudos to the musical team. Days finally hired people who know how to compose music.

Have Hope and Rafe said what evidence they have that points to Chad? I don't think Chad's fingerprints could have been anywhere near Paige, and it doesn't look like Ben ever uses gloves to kill people.

I keep wondering why Ben thinks he'll never be caught, but then I remember the Salem PD is the dumbest police department in the universe -- hence, Ben believing all this will work out in his favour.

It figures Will gets killed off when he suddenly has an epiphany, takes blame onto himself, and is simply, well, way less annoying than usual.

I feel Chad is too stupid for words to show up at a killer's apartment without any police back-up. I suppose he deserves Abigail.

Maybe Gabi impressed me more than I thought she would, but, gosh, Abigail's reactions are so boring. Uh, yeah, where's Kate? It's weird not having her around for this.

Now we're going to have to deal with Abigail pondering that a guy went as far as killing to keep her...blech.

And, man, why can't Chad run to Rafe instead of to Ben's apartment? WTF. This is not going to end well...

True. Which makes all of this even lamer!!!! WTF. And all over Abigail. Double-lame. No, make that triple lame. Actually, there are not enough lames in the world to explain the stupidity of all of this.

I think it's the fact that Ben suddenly turned into a serial killer (and over Abigail) that makes the storyline especially weird. A psychopath generally has no good reason for killing people, but there are usually hints the person will go on a killing spree (i.e killing animals before starting in on humans). With Ben, there was no real hint he could turn psycho, except for some violent tendencies of punching people (which other people on this show have similarly exhibited so it's hard to see that as a red flag, since I would have just assumed he was throwing the usual Salem temper-tantrum). To turn psycho simply because of Abigail is what I find strange -- I feel that he would have been "practicing" doing harm before he met Abigail. Maybe it will come out that he did stuff like this regarding other ex-girlfirends, though how he never got caught with his sloppy way of killing would be a huge gap the writers would have to explain.

Well, those were some pretty depressing episodes to watch. Did Ben seriously do all of this just to keep Abigail? I don't think the serial killer storyline is dumb in and of itself, but if keeping Abigail is Ben's sole motivation for killing, I feel that's....lame. No one is worth this, especially not Abigail! Geez, even EJ didn't go this far for Sami. So stupid. Shaking my head.

That thing growing on the bottom of Eduardo's chin bothers me to no end.

Yeah, KDP deserves the Emmy. I was moved. Why did they write this stupid JJ/Eve affair if they were going to kill Paige off? Why is KDP stuck with such a lousy character? So many questions. But no question about her acting ability.

If she's 16, the EJami thing started when she was 7 or 8. So it's possible she might not have seen the early part of their story. I wonder if KM knows that John Oliver called her character a trollop. I don't even know what to say about Ben being the killer. I mean, I don't like Ben exactly, but I feel like this lets Abby off too easily in her storyline. Oh well, c'est la vie. She and Chad can go off and be smug together.

Trollop! Thank you, John Oliver!

The Chad and Abigail scenes with the disguises seemed like a bit of a retread of EJ and Sami's storyline when everyone thought he had murdered somebody and she was trying to help him prove that he hadn't. If Ben is the serial killer, I'm annoyed. Not because it wouldn't make sense or anything like that (maybe it kind of does given his back-story), but because it seems like an attempt to make Abigail seem justified in her cheating and less mock-able (but unfortunately I still want to mock her because it's simply that easy).