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time. March 16 - So the week started off with Belle, Shawn, Claire and Marlena going to see John at the mansion for dinner. Once again some excellent scenes with Claire and John. I'm so going to miss Claire when she leaves with her parents! Couldn't they possibly leave her behind? Meanwhile Rolf was asked if he could reverse John's memory loss, but he claimed he couldn't. Well we all know he can, but at this point in the game if the option was available I don't think John would do it. I still believe John knows what he needs to become the old John again, he just doesn't want to. Meanwhile, Marlena finally realized that perhaps they needed to stop pushing John to remember, as that plan wasn't really working. For a shrink it took her long enough to realizing perhaps their pressure wasn't helping things!
John continued with his plans this week to take over shipping at the docks and basically put poor Victor out of business. Again I think John knows should he come back, he wouldn't be doing what he's doing, another reason to stay the new John. John met with one Paul Hollingsworth, who is a customs agent at the docks. While it hasn't been revealed yet, he's clearly Morgan's dad. Marlena caught John with him and realized he plans to bribe him. She also made the odd remark that she knew who Paul was by his reputation. Clearly it sounds like Paul is not a good character at all!
I did love the scenes with John and Marlena this week, especially when he told her that she scares the hell out of him. Later when she stopped him from committing the illegal bribe with the kiss, that was classic. You could see John was moved, but just not enough. He's still playing poor Marlena. You could tell he intends to go back, he just wouldn't with Marlena there. Steve told Stephanie the truth about Ava this week. Finally at lease someone in the family now knows. However because of Kayla's pregnancy, he's still choosing to keep it from her. Meanwhile, we were treated to yet more scenes of Ava going nuts over Hope's photo, convinced she was Steve's wife. What to say about all this? I guess I have nothing new too say, since we've watched the same thing with her for three weeks now!
Nick again confronted Max about his grant, but Max stuck to his same old story about just needing paper. Later though he changed more calculations. What is going on? Some have suggested maybe this is a "Good Will Hunting" story and Max is a genius, correcting Nick's mistakes. You know I could see that. With Max's "poor me I have no directions or plans" speech this week, if he is a genius this would get him into college with the rest of the girls. However at the same time something tells me they could go another way. Max is broke and is in need of money and is sabotaging Nick. If that is the case then I think they will have him working for Paul, who I'm convinced is going to become a new villain on the show, though more like a Larry Welch in the 80s kind of villain. Most of the action this week took place at the hospital with Bo's illness. Lexie and Kayla found a procedure to save his life, which Daniel was the first one to person. Hmmmm, why didn't Daniel bring this up before? He claimed the risks were too high. However as a doctor isn't it his duty to provide his patient with all the options?
For pretty much the rest of the week Kayla, Daniel and Lexie looked for matches amongst the family. Meanwhile everyone came to the hospital to say their goodbyes to Bo, who was making preparations for his death. These scenes were heartbreaking, especially his scenes with Shawn. Shawn did everything he could to convince his dad not to give up, even a guilt trip that it would stifle his plans to sail around the world. Bo told Shawn that he didn't want to give up, but sometimes you can't win every fight . . . and he had no fight left in him. I think this was the teary eyed moment of the week . As slow as this week was, though not as slow as last week, these scenes were really great. Finally little Miss Chelsea ran off to a bar to gat drunk after being tested as a donor match, and decided to play hide and seek from her family. What a moron! Once again we had to listen to her "Poor me, everyone dies around me" speech. Sorry Chelsea, I can't feel sorry for you. One, this isn't about you at the moment, it's about your dad. Two, running off to get drunk and forgetting you signed up to be a possible donor? Stupid! March 9 - Nick began working on a grant this week on the science of going green. For some reason Max just seemed a little too interested in his work, even stealing a piece of paper from his notebook which had the main formula and hypothesis on it. Nick confronted Max, who claimed he just needed a piece of paper to write something down. Max then got inquisitive, wondering if Nick had shown this to his adviser? What's going on here? Some people think Max is trying to help Nick out, as his advisor caught a mistake in Nick's work. I think Max is sabotaging him for some reason and he put the mistake in there, changing a number or something. Why is Max doing this? That I don't know. He has been talking an awful lot about his birth father and what a horrible man he was, how he doesn't want to be like him. Maybe the writers decided one of the younger set needed to be a bad guy?
Morgan seemed to be a real busy body this week, getting into everyone else's business. For some reason she was really insistent that nothing let Nick stop him from getting this grant of his in. Hmmmm, why? Something has to be in it for Morgan if she's that interested. Maybe it will benefit her parents company or something? She just never seemed that interested in what Nick did before. Morgan and Stephanie both interviewed and got internships with Tony and Anna's companies this week, setting them up as rivals as well as Tony and Anna. Meanwhile it looks like Kate has a new company in the works, so I'm sure that's where Chelsea will intern for the summer, considering she blew off her other interviews. Steve and Kayla's storyline was unfortunately mind numbingly boring this week. First of all, now that Kayla is working at Salem University Hospital, I think it is time to move out of the Salem Inn and get a real house! It's annoyed me for weeks that they are still living in a hotel. Back to the original comments though, all they seemed to do all week long was "rest." That is Steve kept telling her to rest and she didn't want to. I think we watched three days of this back and forth. We get it, let's move on now.
While Steve was ordering Kayla to rest, Ava continued going nuts over the photos of the Bradys and thinking Hope was Steve's wife Kayla. I'm not sure what to say about this storyline, as it too really didn't go anywhere this week. It just seemed like more filler to me. EJ learned this week from a registered letter that his visa had expired. As many have commented, EJ was born in the US to Susan so he should be a citizen who can't be deported. Well he should also only be about ten years old too! Clearly the writers have changed a lot. A man from immigration told EJ that the US was trying to get all undesirables out of the country, which included the DiMeras. Hmmmm. Many people have theorized that EJ could have set this all up as a way to get closer to Sami. That actually never crossed my mind really. However if the government is really trying to get the DiMeras out of the country, then they will go after Tony and John as well no doubt. If they don't, hmmm maybe this is something EJ is pulling? If it is, and Sami finds out, ouch. There will be fireworks!
Marlena once again found herself appalled with NuJohn this week as he decided not to testify against Rolf, and thus he was let go. Like Stefano, apparently nobody has any evidence on Rolf to keep him in jail. John hiring Rolf as his butler and telling him to lose the accent was great. I really hope John knows what he's doing though, as it's pretty clear Rolf does. He knows he has to keep the old John from returning or else. I think that's the only reason Rolf took the job as the butler, not because he didn't have any other opportunities. Salem's own version of Dr. McDreamy showed up this week, one Dr. Daniel Jonas. Victor contacted him, as he happened to be in town, and asked him to consult on Bo's case. Chelsea of course seems to have the hots for him, and he doesn't exactly seem to be discouraging her. Love (and lust) has no age limit, but this is a bit too much for me mainly because Daniel looks like he could be Chelsea's dad. Furthermore what is with Chelsea? Can't she just be happy with Nick? It seems every time a new pretty face shows up she gets a crush on the guy. If she ends up dumping Nick again over another crush . . . . well I hope Nick has the good sense not to take her back again!
Bo's illness and how closely related to Isabella's pancreatic cancer has Victor thinking about Isabella and how he never got over her death. Marlena talked with him and asked him to come see her for a session. First of all, it's amazing to see Marlena working again! Hurray for that. However I'm not exactly sure where this is going. Is it just some story to get Marlena working again, or are we going somewhere with this? Max started serving his community service sentence, working at the docks. He's also still hurting over losing Shawn. Stephanie and Max had a few talks this week. This couple is currently the center of debate for many people. Some love them and don't care that Max was an adopted Brady, as there is no blood relation. Others just think blood or not, Max was adopted and taken into the family so it's too close for comfort. I have noticed, as many others have, that whenever they are talking it seems the show is very careful not to have them say too much about the fact that they are family, even though we all know it. Stephanie never refers to Shawn as her Grandpa, but instead Max's father. I think if he was talking about his pop and she chimed in calling him grandpa, well that might just be a little too much of an ew moment. Finally Phillip learned that Chloe threaded to kill Brady, which she claims was just a figure of speech. Phillip is determined to find Brady so Chloe can get some closure with him, just as he supposedly found somehow with Belle. It seems Phillip has just gone from wanting Belle to suddenly wanting Chloe. Can't he find a woman who isn't married or in love with someone else? What about Morgan? Anyway, it seems Chloe still has a big ole secret, one she is afraid will even drive Phillip away as a friend if he learned it. I don't think she killed Brady, but something tells me she's done something very very bad! . March 2 - So the week began with the sorority forgiving Chelsea and just deciding to put the whole Ford Decker thing behind them. I for one am fully in favor of never revisiting this storyline or having to watch another flashback of Ford falling down the stairs. Later Morgan gave the girls a list of internships to prepare them for life after college. Okay wait a second here. When this school year began, Stephanie and Chelsea were still early in their school career, while others like Cordy were graduating that year and leaving. Am I to assume everyone has been fast forwarded to senior status and is graduating? Maybe these are just summer internships, who knows. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out where in Salem they will be working . . . the advertising companies! There was some silliness, IE filler scenes, involving Tony and Anna's companies this week. Those girls better get there fast, because it looks like Tony's only employee, his secretary, quit thanks to Anna's lies about him. Meanwhile Anna, well I think aside from her boss who hired her, she's the only one working at her company. They both need some help stat! We learned more about the mysterious Ava Vitali from her run-ins with Steve this week. First it seems Ava was behind the plane mishap, though it wasn't supposed to go as far as it did. That's a big oops! She and Steve apparently had something going on from the years when Steve was believed to be dead and had no memory. Since she knew enough to call him Patch, as well as his real name, clearly we are supposed to forget all about the whole Nick Stockton fiasco when Steve first returned with now memory. Steve even seemed to call up an old friend from those days to help him with Ava, though at the same time telling this person that he felt that both he and Ava were his past and wanted it left that way. Ava also apparently has a rich and powerful father, who has been keeping her locked up and doesn't like the fact that she's found Steve again. It seems like they are hinting it might be a villain from the past, but who knows. The name Vitali doesn't ring any bells, unless it's of course an alias or her married name. She seems pretty nuts, so I could see her having killed her first husband. Unfortunately she now has her sites set on Hope, who she thinks is actually Steve's wife. Poor Hope, she's always the target of crazy people on the show it seems. John has decided he wants to take over Stefano's empire. He and Marlena visited Stefano in the hospital. John filled him in on his reunion with his mommy and the big mistake Stefano made. It seems Stefano didn't know he was his half-brother after all. I think I smell a re-write here. I just can't believe Stefano of all people wouldn't have known this. He must have had some insane genetic testing done on John over the years with all his brain washing and stuff. I mean come on, he even has John's kidney in him! I did love John telling Stefano he was going to drink his booze, smoke his cigars, live in his house and sleep in his bed. Okay that last part was a bit nasty, and I don't think Marlena enjoyed hearing that either. She's probably thinking he's going to be sleeping in that bed alone. Bo was released from the hospital this week in order to attend his pop's funeral. Big sister Kim came back as well. I loved seeing Patsy Pease back, it reminded me of long ago when I first started watching Days. I loved the way she stood between her mom and Victor and point blank told him not to take advantage of her mother given the situation. Go Kim! Caroline had a talk with EJ this week about how she can see he's sorry for his mistakes, how she's been where he is. She gave him some advice and invited him to the funeral. I have to say the redemption of EJ just seems to be happening over night and is very strange. Don't get me wrong, I like the new nice EJ, but this acceptance just kinda happened. I mean Lucas just went to jail and the Brady's are acting like Sami's already moved on to EJ! Something also tells me poor Lexie is thinking to herself "All I did was tell one lie about a baby and I got ostracized by this family for a lot longer than this guy!" Later Caroline had a talk with Vic and put him in his place. Victor just decided it would be a good idea for him to take Caroline to her husband's funeral! Jeeze Victor, I know you love the woman, but her husband isn't even in the ground and your basically making a date to the funeral! The clearly about to happen romance between these two is also something that seems to just be happening at the speed of light as well. Sloooowwww down! Everyone gathered for Shawn's funeral, which was so sad. Something tells me these depressing "Days" are far from over given what's going on with Bo. No, I don't believe they are going to kill him, so don't take the comment that way! Back to the funeral, I did however love seeing the Brady Bunch back together, though for me Wayne/Drake will always be the Roman I remember interacting with the others. Josh was there too, he was just Chris at the time! Everyone soon returned to the pub to share toasts and memories of Shawn. Unfortunately Kim got shuttled off back to LA. I really wished they would have had her stay around longer than they did. Even if it was only a guest appearance, keep her around a little longer. Honestly I want Kim back full time, just as long as little Genie doesn't decide to fall in love with Uncle Max too. Bo passed out and was rushed back to the hospital near the end of the week. We finally know what is wrong with him, kind of. While he doesn't have cancer, he does have something unknown attacking his pancreas. It's the dreaded unknown unnamed soap illness! Lexie said there could be a genetic pre-disposition in Victor's family for this given Isabella died of pancreatic cancer. So does this mean we can look forward to more of these mysterious illness stories for anyone with a drop of Kiriakis blood in them in the future? I also have to wonder how long this story will even last, given Belle and Shawn are set to leave in about one month. Obviously Bo will soon be making a miraculous recovery, as I don't think Belle and Shawn would run off and leave him with a terminal illness to go traveling across the globe. "Sorry you're dying dad, but were off on the Carnival fun ship to party!" The end of the week brought us some more cute scenes with RoboJohn and Claire. I loved when he asked if she wanted some juice! He let Claire basically play at his desk, and she of course found the CD with his memories on it. Once again, have they forgotten that not long ago John remembered Stefano taunting him with that very disk full of memories? Or are we supposed to forget that? Or perhaps John hasn't forgotten, he's just decided he doesn't want his old life back? That would be a huge twist! John later got the news from the family attorney, one Mr. Griffin (haha, get it?) that given he was the only relative not specifically by name cut out in Stefano's will, that he should run the empire for the time being. Yes sir, it looks like the show is headed more towards a Dallas/Dynasty inspired story it seems. .February 23 - So at the beginning of the week, everyone in Salem was trying to find answers about the plane crash. Roman made the comment they weren't going to be searching at night as it was too dangerous. Um, why? Was there a massive weather front moving in? Because it didn't looks like they were getting terrible storms on the ground. Furthermore we are talking about people scouting overhead with planes, not on foot. It didn't make sense to me, but I'm not a rescue worker I guess. Clearly we just needed a reason for them to all have to sleep together! I know soaps always bend reality, but I really loved how everyone managed to survive the crash, even though the plane was torn to pieces and several people (Chloe, Phillip for example) were thrown out of the plane! Of course the greatest moment of all was when everyone started to wake up, were hurt and achy and wondering where Claire was. She was sitting there all covered up yet calm as can be saying "Someone please get this blanket off my head!" Marlena was busy saving Bo's life at the beginning of the week, while also attending to an injured Steve and Kayla's cramping. Those scenes were all very fine, but the highlight of the Greenland scenes was no doubt John and Claire's time together. These scenes with the juice and flares were adorable. The cutie pie scene of the week goes to Claire saying "That's A Fact" to John when he asked if she liked her juice. A close runner up I think her going to give John a kiss goodnight was a close runner up. Everyone decided to use the body heat trick to keep warm, paring up in couples for the night. Marlena and John's scenes were hilarious, as John basically lost his virginity again (how many times has he lost it, since he's clearly had his memory erased several times!). He really enjoyed making love to Marlena and wanted to do it again, but she told him not until he got his memory back. I guess even whoopee won't trigger his memory. Question: John knows Stefano put his memory on that disc, why doesn't he go looking for it? Anyway, wouldn't it have made more sense for everyone to sleep together? I mean more bodies equals more body heat. Again though, it's a soap, it was done for the sole purpose of sexing it up. Oh and where did they get all those tents from? It's like the plane was prepared to crash land somewhere. I do believe the rescue from this crash is in fact the quickest rescue of stranded Salemites ever in "Days" history. Bravo for not dragging it on for 3 weeks or more! As everyone came home to the hospital, we were treated to some even more amazing performances. Watching Caroline and Roman dealing with Shawn's death was heart wrenching, even more so that I think having to watch his death. "Days" has been so good lately, but at the same time so depressing! Depressing not in the bad sense though, just depressing. It's like each day they want you to cry more than the previous. I can't wait until Kimberly returns this coming week. I just hope someone at "Days" has the smarts to realize how much she's missed and bring her back for good. I mean with her being a therapist, and Marlena clearly too busy to work, she could do so much. John was the only one through the whole scenes not showing any sign of emotion. Marlena pushed him and again he opened up a little, telling Caroline he would have liked if Shawn was his father from the way he acted. Later Lexie wanted to examine John. I loved his response "You're just out for cheap thrills!" Then when Marlena said she'll examine him, he said "I'll show you mine if you show me yours." Too funny! I love the new John, and I love that he calls Marlena "Blondie" now and not "Doc." I hope the new nickname sticks even after he gets his memory back. Victor confronted Chloe about Brady, and she gave the same old story. Meanwhile Kate seemed to not like that Chloe was getting close to Phillip again, and even suggested to Victor that she's just after his money. Well Kate would know wouldn't she! But it looks like here we go with Kate yet again. Phillip is the only one of her children left in Salem, so it's up to Kate to run his life and decide who is good enough for him. Earth to Kate, you tried that with Belle and look what happened! Kate will never learn to just butt out. Ava, the mystery woman from Steve's past, made it to Salem this week. Steve began to realize, after talking to Roman, that perhaps she sabotaged the plane. Would she go through all that trouble just to get to Steve or his family? If she loved Steve, she wouldn't want him dead would she? One thing is for sure, after having the note delivered to Steve threatening Kayla and his baby, she's dangerous and possibly crazy. Steve's reaction that "She's here" made it sound like he knows exactly who she is too. If this story leads to Steve's missing years and what happened to him, I guess I'm all for it. At the same time, this is such a flashback to the whole Marina Toscano story, right down to Kayla being pregnant again. By the end of the week EJ, Sami, Tony, Anna and Lexie were called to the DiMera mansion for news. There Marlena and John revealed that John is both a Brady and a DiMera, shocking everyone. It also seems, from Marlena's comments, that they are all believing Stefano had no idea who John really was. I don't know if I buy that. Stefano made comments that sending John to kill Colleen was his destiny, as if he was getting some sick pleasure from it all. Everyone was also shocked when they learned John was interested in controlling the Empire! Meanwhile the scenes between Sami, Anna and John were hilarious. I loved how Anna suddenly began taking an interest in John when she smelled the money! Sami stomping on her foot, and John tending to it was equally as hilarious. I would love to see some more scenes between Anna and John, though I do want John to work his way back to Marlena. Anna belongs with Tony as well. Still Anna and John were hilarious together. We seem to be seeing a lot of changing dynamics in the DiMera family. Are they trying to move away from the DiMera's being the "bad" family of Salem? I don't know how well that would fly with longtime fans. On one hand we seem to have the good/reformed DiMeras with Tony, Lexie and EJ; on the other side of the family is still the evil patriarch Stefano. Of course he's in a coma, but for how long? Now we have the newly found Uncle RoboJohn, who as of yet nobody knows whose side he's on, except maybe his own. I don't think Lexie has any desire to be involved with the Empire in any way. Tony, well he seems to be trying to break off and do his advertising thing. EJ however looked a tad shocked and not too happy that John wanted to take it all over, as if he still felt he was due something. I can see EJ and John going head to head, and eventually Stefano coming back as well. Are they trying to turn the DiMera's into some kind of "Dynasty" or "Dallas" type drama on the show? That's what it seems to me, that they are moving into a battle for control of the Empire rather than the normal "brainwashing" schemed of the DiMeras. Should be interesting if that is the way they are taking them. In a way it's a return to their roots, as Stefano came onto the show as a crimelord and a business man. Finally there was some drama between Anna and Tony as Tony found out about Anna's new job with his rival company. Tony still doesn't get why Anna is doing this, even seemingly after she explained he doesn't respect her. He just kept offering to give her a job with his company, that his company was the best and she should want to work there. Poor Tony, I think he's in to have his ego squashed under the heel of one of Anna's red stiletto pumps! . |
