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I understand that they were popular in their day but I think they are completely boring now. Steve, Kayla, John, Marlena and Hope are all boring. I do still enjoy Adrianne and Justin as supporting characters. I feel like the writers should let the next generation lead and the 80s characters should become supporting characters to their children’s lives. Stephanie should come back along with Shawn and Belle to be the stars of the show. I don’t care to see Rafe and Hope try to act like 20 year olds. Let the next generation have they heyday!
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Perhaps if they actually wrote for them and gave them storylines they wouldn’t be boring. My greatest wish for Days would be a John and Marlena story, the last significant one was in 2008.
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I agree a hundered percent, I mean it's a damn shame that they haven't even brought on Justin and Adrienne's sons, Andrew Donovan, seeing more of Jett Carver, Jeremy Horton, Stephanie Johnson, as those should be the characters that represent the next generation. You can still have the supercouples of DOOL but mix it up with them and the next generation in supporting roles or give them story lines so they are connected.Originally posted by Zach View PostComment
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I think the 80s couples, is what gets some watching the show for life! Wants more for them, for instance, Lucas.Comment
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You are absolutely right. I am tuning in again for Matthew Ashford. There will never IMO be another era for Suoercouples like the 80’s. Hope and Bo, Jack and Jenn, Patch and Kayla, Shane and Kimberly......the writers knew how to write slow build romances. -
houstonian ...yep! Your post reminded me how people tune in for the 50th. For Bo, since most loved this character. Probably for more for the 50th, wished we had more. The 50th was okay but the audience desired for more.
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The writing for them is not good. Sometimes I think that the writing for them is pointedly not as good because recent writing has not produced anything half as good or half as popular as it did back then. The problem that soap writing has had for a while is to establish relationship dynamics and behavioural niches for its characters. Everything is plot driven. You could take any two characters of the same general age and gender and swap stories and it would probably make just about the same amount of sense. The storylines are generic, plot-driven, and recycled. That makes all characters boring -- not just the vet ones. The younger characters that are featured more prominently in storylines now are JUST as boring, and maybe more boring because they don't have those moments of established dynamics, and history, and personality quirks that occasionally make their way into the vet scenes, that were established long ago, by better writers.Comment
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It's the writing and writing for their OWN interests is the problem - it's NOT the "80's" couples. They're what made this show what it "was" - it's not like that today and that's part of the reason. Present writers don't know how to write stories/couples that hold an audience. The vets have mostly been supporting characters for the newer characters for over a decade now - Bo's (argurably the most popular character this show ever had) last few years were used as a prop on the backburner and is the REAL reason he left - they told him they'd not be writing for him anymore)! That was a HUGE mistake)!Originally posted by Samisbiggestfan View Post
They just changed the writing style so much, IMO made awful decisions with their characters, and the show has lost it's way & it's familiarity that once had a very solid, family-like audience. Daytime soaps should be all about continuing drama in order to hold it's audience and that went out the window. It's not about the fault of the "80's" couples - it's the writing for them & choices tptb have made. As "boring as they may be to some they're the reason some still hold on - they're recognizable (except Hope to me - they reinvented her to match her love interests after Bo but that, too, has been the writing)!Comment
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Bo and Hope and Steve and Kayla were never boring to me. Steve & Kayla still have excellent chem and there is still something special about their connection on screen. Very few if any couples maintain that over time.
The rest I agree with
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While I do think it's important to have legacy characters like Shane and Kim's children, Bo and Hope's children, Patch and Kayla's daughter, Jack and Jen's kids, etc. on screen....it's also good to have a mixture of the veterans around as well....but the veteran characters should now be having the stories that say Shawn and Caroline and Alice and Tom used to have.....doling out advice, settling into their later years, etc. when the 80's supercouples were younger....Comment
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That’s what I’m saying. They should take on the roles of Julie and Doug and the rest of the older crew. I don’t care much for these storylines of John and Patch trying to act like they are in their 20s in the ISA. Let them mature like Bo did. John was already a successful businessman but they decided to revert him back to this ISA nonsense.
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80’s super couples were the best. Way better than couples we have now now snd they had much better stories.Comment
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I agree with this. I love 80s Steve and Kayla (and Bo and Hope, and Justin and Adrienne) as much as the next person. But the 80s supercouples are old enough to be grandparents now. They can't still have the kind of storylines they did back then. Younger cast members should now have the kinds of storylines that made Days must-see TV back in the 80s. The problem is that they don't. The writing is so much less than it used to be, new viewers aren't getting hooked in.Originally posted by GuidingLite View PostComment
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Yup, very true...they don't write character driven stories now...it's plot driven....and they bring past characters back with little purpose or direction.....and bring back nearly every dead character at some point so that every time someone dies, you just don't care the way you used to because you know they'll be back sooner or later....
An example is Jack Devereaux.....I absolutely LOVED his character in the 80's and 90's....he was so fun to watch....but the man died in an elevator crash...an elevator crash....and now there's talk that he's coming back to the show (I have not seen confirmation of that, nor if it's as a 'vision' or flesh and bone)....and as much as I loved him...I don't want YET ANOTHER contrived back from the dead...they should stop killing off characters in the first place, unless they are going to leave them dead forever....there are ways to have a character exit the screen without killing them....kidnapping...disappearance...witness protection program...soul searching journey.....job relocation....there's any number of ways to let an actor leave and either decide to return, or recast the part if that's possible....
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If they actually wrote stories for them integrated them with the younger set like Abby & Chad or Brady and Eric you might not be bored with them. I tell you one thing though take them off the show and see your audience nose dive. It has happened in the past and it would again. Shows need history without it they will not exist.Comment
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The 80s couples bore me to tears. I started watching as a college freshman in 98, so I'm a fan of Shawn and Belle, and Sami and her loves. Other characters in their 30s-40s are more interesting to me. Therefore if we got more screen time and stories for this generation I'd be all for it. Bring back Phillip, Mimi, Melanie, Carrie, Austin, Lucas, Sami, etc for lengthier gigs. Count me in as excited for Kyle Lowder's character (who ever it is), Mimi, Belle, Shawn, Nicole, and Sami returning to the canvas.Comment
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Okay, I respect your opinions. I started watching Days in the summer of 1982 when Bo and Hope started out. Same with Steve and Kayla. Ditto Jack and Jennifer. These were powerful pairings, and the audience felt IT. That indefinable, intangible, magical something that writers can't write and producers cannot bring about. The ONLY couple on Days, imho, that has come anywhere close to this chemistry since Jack and Jennifer, is Ben & Ciara.Comment
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well you have a point but for those who have been watching for 30+ yrs maybe they aren't so boring... ? and really do young ppl even watch soap operas anymore ? seems the pseudo-reality type shows have replaced the traditional soap opera ?? just a thought.Comment
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Do you think they were boring back in the day, or do you think it's just that they are boring now?Originally posted by Samisbiggestfan View PostComment
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