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I have watched DAYS OF OUR LIVES since Summer, 1987. [My mother has watched DAYS from the beginning; I asked her how far back she remembers watching and she says, "Wasn't Julie involved in something where a scar crossed her face for a while?""] My favorite DAYS storylines are Jack & Jennifer's entire love story; John & Marlena's love story and Ben & Ciara's love story. I will admit that I stopped watching DAYS the first time Marlena was possessed (I just couldn't sit through it 20-25? yrs ago] and nor that I have technology assistance [TiVo, DVR, etc.], I find that it's easier to blast through storylines I don't like and focus on the actors [John Aniston, Lamon Archey, Lindsay Arnold, Matthew Ashford, Mary Beth Evans, Billy Flynn, Jackee Harry, Vincent Irizarry, Marci Miller, Stephen Nichols, James Reynolds, Suzanne Rogers, Sal Stowers, etc.] I do like [I'm sure I've blanked on a few]...
I don't understand DAYS' tradition of not showing the births of much-longed for children [starting, it seems, with not letting Jennifer being with Jack when she gave birth to Jack, Jr. [J.J.] alone on a beach with Patrick Lockhart[?] as her coach. Then they were reunited in the rain [I will admit that I cried my lazy eyes out while watching that, cuing up "All I Have" sniffling and HONK!-ing away, muttering to myself about "Why couldn't they be together like Jack was for Abby's birth?" grumble grumble grumble.
Years later, that beautiful young man named Ben Weston shows up to terrorize Abigail Deveraux DiMera [becoming, it was later revealed, a serial killer, after murdering three people] while Ciara Alice Brady happens upon Ben's cabin after wrecking her beloved dad Bo's motorcycle and Ciara sees through Ben's psychosis and sees that he is better on medication he has run out of so she makes sure Ben can access the correct medicine and remember to stay on it if he wants to maintain a successful life. After Ben & Ciara marry and are able to be together, they debate whether or not to have children, consulting doctors, psychiatrists and family before deciding to go ahead with trying to conceive, ultimately having a son, which the audience does not see until days later, when little Baby Bo is surrounded in a circle by a flaming pentagram set by Ciara's cousin, Alice Caroline Brady (aka Allie).
I realize that DAYS OF OUR LIVES is "just a TV show," but many viewers [long-time as well as relatively new] enjoy it and I would miss it and the characters if it were gone.
I don't understand DAYS' tradition of not showing the births of much-longed for children [starting, it seems, with not letting Jennifer being with Jack when she gave birth to Jack, Jr. [J.J.] alone on a beach with Patrick Lockhart[?] as her coach. Then they were reunited in the rain [I will admit that I cried my lazy eyes out while watching that, cuing up "All I Have" sniffling and HONK!-ing away, muttering to myself about "Why couldn't they be together like Jack was for Abby's birth?" grumble grumble grumble.
Years later, that beautiful young man named Ben Weston shows up to terrorize Abigail Deveraux DiMera [becoming, it was later revealed, a serial killer, after murdering three people] while Ciara Alice Brady happens upon Ben's cabin after wrecking her beloved dad Bo's motorcycle and Ciara sees through Ben's psychosis and sees that he is better on medication he has run out of so she makes sure Ben can access the correct medicine and remember to stay on it if he wants to maintain a successful life. After Ben & Ciara marry and are able to be together, they debate whether or not to have children, consulting doctors, psychiatrists and family before deciding to go ahead with trying to conceive, ultimately having a son, which the audience does not see until days later, when little Baby Bo is surrounded in a circle by a flaming pentagram set by Ciara's cousin, Alice Caroline Brady (aka Allie).
I realize that DAYS OF OUR LIVES is "just a TV show," but many viewers [long-time as well as relatively new] enjoy it and I would miss it and the characters if it were gone.
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