SPOILER! Will the time jump work?

[isa]

Obviously the point of this is to throw a curve ball at the audience and move stories forward without all the pesky drama in the middle, more like being at the point where things can take turn, with Ben going to prison, PG still running around, Jennifer in a coma, JJ hooked on drugs and while that concept is appealing cause I don't always like sitting through the tough stuff but that's what daytime drama's all about. Going on the ride with their favorite characters and relishing in the joy they feel when they weather the storm and come out on top. I watched shows like "The Originals" and "Once Upon A Time" but those time jumps worked because primetime and daytime are different. I'll probably just step away from the show for a while. But I did read that Ben will encounter Clyde while in prison. And that's the only thing I'm looking forward to.

[tiff5555]

Clyde coming back? Cool! I wish he would be free and go after his next revenge. Anyway, show will be in November 2020, heading to 2021 from what I think I heard.

[Laura23]

Personally I am really looking forward to the time jump. Bring it on!

[Ben7]

It will soon become tedious if there are lots of flashbacks as we already know the outcome. It will be like watching the show on rewind!!

[dee2]

That's what I think will happen. Unless the writing improves, there will be no difference.

[witchboy]

I expect there will be twists and surprises in the flashbacks. There should be mysteries in the present. Like who are the real parents of the babies? What happened to cause couples to break up, etc.

[Cocoasneeze]

I'm wary. For me to be drawn and get interested in a story, I want to see it happen on screen. I don't want flashbacks after the fact, I want to see the build up happen in front of my eyes. For some stories it won't be an issue though, but for stories like romances, it won't work.

[2cansam]

Obviously the point of this is to throw a curve ball at the audience and move stories forward without all the pesky drama in the middle, more like being at the point where things can take turn, with Ben going to prison, PG still running around, Jennifer in a coma, JJ hooked on drugs and while that concept is appealing cause I don't always like sitting through the tough stuff but that's what daytime drama's all about. Going on the ride with their favorite characters and relishing in the joy they feel when they weather the storm and come out on top. I watched shows like "The Originals" and "Once Upon A Time" but those time jumps worked because primetime and daytime are different. I'll probably just step away from the show for a while. But I did read that Ben will encounter Clyde while in prison. And that's the only thing I'm looking forward to.

Nope because (if), it is a year in advance everyone will look and be the same so the show will be a ton of flashbacks.

[kristendny]

Who is PG??????????????

[CHK DeWilson]

I think it's Princess Gina (Hope)

[kristendny]

Ah! Thank you.

[CHK DeWilson]

As a concept, it has basically already lost me with what I am hearing about in certain SLs.

For example the rumoured situation with WilSon. I understand that there are times that they feel a couple need to break up in order to work their way back towards one another however if the actual couple is not given time to settle into their relationship/marriage but get into a cycle where their problems cause them to split and either one is in a new relationship in the year then what's the point?!

I'm always going to love and believe in Will and Sonny as a couple but I've lost faith in TPTB of Days actually giving them a chance to stay in their marriage for a number of years facing and tackling their issues/problems together.

And Sonny possible in another relationship with a son of John's? Seriously?! The only saving grace would be that Will can go there as he would be related to the man!

Sure WilSon isn't like by some (which is neither here or there for me) but given with a recent poll they are still popular for others so it's enough to have them in a SL that reflects a real life issue as a gay couple.

Days human emotional SLs are so few and far between. Yes they can be controversial and sometimes even political but IMO they can work like the JJ/Theo shooting story compare to the Haley Immigration story because of the characters involved. (Even though I know that the shooting SL wasn't perfectly played out).

All Days are seemingly interested in are love triangles and revenge plots. Which I'm so bored with.

[MollyPoppins]

This says it all far better than I ever could. And regarding whether the time jump will work? It's being written by Ron. Ron is a total hack, which tells me everything I need to know about how this will go. The characters will be unrecognizable, the stories will lack any depth (emotional or otherwise), much of the dialogue will be incoherent, and the entire thing will be a whole lot of lost potential in the end. That's Ron, and he ain't changing.

And from your lips (well, keyboard ) to God's ears regarding a potential story for WilSon down the road that's grounded in reality. We're probably going to need a new head writer for it to happen, but I'm also ready for the contrived triangles and stupid plots to be over with.

[Kingswood1959]

I agree with you there. What is the point letting them get married again and then spitting them up
I know a lot of people dont like them but a lot of us do. It looks like they are going the Same way with Cin but I hope they dont have e love triangle. Why do they like spitting couples up.

[Cat women]

Will the time jump work......Sadly no, the show can't tell a sophisticated, intricate story.

[LadyCanuck]

This is true.

[Skins 2008]

Yes it will and I'm impressed with what RC has done.

[Cat women]

Only time will tell, but history is on my side. I hope I'm wrong, but I won't be. November and December will be good, but by the end of January the writers will have lost control of their own story. The show is not good with details, important details, that is a problem.

[icyblue2034]

It will soon become tedious if there are lots of flashbacks as we already know the outcome. It will be like watching the show on rewind!!

And there will have to be. This is lazy writing at its worst. Instead of fixing the messes they made, Ron and the writers are jumping ahead. Clearly making some big messes along the way. In fact it all sounds downright miserable. They'll have to hammer us with flashbacks to make any sense of the new misery they've created. We're going to have all the outcomes with none of the buildup, which is how a show like Days is structured. Once Upon a Time, This Is Us, and others like them are very different shows. They're entire structure is woven into past/present/future all being told together. Ron is trying to pull on that approach and I'm worried. Based on evidence presented so far, I simply don't think they're capable of that kind of intricacy. And of course add in that all the spoilers are filled with misery, I don't know if this is a mistake Days will survive.

[MarineMom]

Earlier poster said it would be 2020. I didn't think soaps happened in actual calendar years, so there wouldn't be a reason to have a calendar year established. Rather, it would be an experiential year. I wish this show didn't deal so much in fantasy (i.e., Dr. Rolf, altho he is the quintessential fantasy villian, a woman who thinks she's a princess, etc.) because I don't like either fantasy OR science fiction unless it's a soap focused on that, i.e. Dark Shadows. I may just need to quit watching this show.

[Princessnyla]

All the you do is freaking complain and whine like my goodness like the freaking stuff play out first and secondly y’all don’t anything about how jump will do it may do really despite y’all being so miserable and negative about it . Secondly of we will know why Ben in jail , we’ll know how Jen lands in the coma , what will leads to Lani doing the things she’ll do . We know the beginning and end of some storylines we just find the middle part of the storylines . Y’all saying this show can’t survive this just watch y’all negative Betties be wrong and the media who actually know things go down say it’s good .

[JackandJenfan]

Don't see why it wouldn't work. It worked fine on All My Children and they moved forward 5 years.

[CanaryFan98]

AMC is cancelled not exactly a good example here... you also reminded me that this has been done before in Daytime so the promo from Days saying its never done before in Daytime well that's a lie that nobody in the media has called them out on.

[JackandJenfan]

CanaryFan98 AMC was cancelled. Then it jumped 5 years for PP. Still, I don't have an issue with this. It beats hearing Sarah bemoan " Eric can never know" for months on end with Nicole wringing her hands about not telling Eric. ?

[CanaryFan98]

JackandJenfan where it was cancelled again that being said the TJ does spare us having to deal with pregnancies of Sarah and Kristen or Gabi's endless revenge plots for months on end.

[CanaryFan98]

If by work that it will rejuvenate the show and make it better than it was before? No. However I don't think this is something that will stick and this ends up being someone's dream in the end.

I don't mind the idea of a TJ in general but as someone else pointed out in this thread you need writers that can write this sort of thing at an intricate level and this show doesn't have that. I guess writing character driven stories in the present time within the budget that they have is too much to ask....