Post by stargazer1682 on Oct 31, 2017 21:05:08 GMT
I am ambivalent about today's episode. I like a good elseworld story, and today is arguably a good time to do it, but Days being Days, it started off just plausible enough to seem like any other episode - case in point my initial (now deleted) post on Rolph's revival. I don't expect him to stay dead, and that seemed believable enough for the current writers, even if I didn't care for this magic anti-death shot.
What followed really didn't seem so far off base, again, for Days anyway, in that it just seemed like their brand of stupid - up to Serena arriving at the Dimera mansion. I mean, Rolph turning Hope back into Gina hardly phased me, I just thought it was dumb, mostly because John had removed the chip from her years and years ago. At first I thought Hope might be tricking him, but things stopped adding up with Serena; then when Kayla showed up with the scarf she kept making a point of drawing attention to, I knew something was up. I expected her to be a vampire, but basically I knew they were going to pull a reveal that undid everything.
All in all, I will give them credit for staging it subtle enough at first, but honestly; of all the things this show telegraph's, or let's the audience in on the truth way too soon, I have mixed feelings as to whether or not this should have been one of them. I would much rather they play other stories this close to the vest, and be remotely this clever; and occasionally do a free for all romp like this, and lay it all out up front.
What followed really didn't seem so far off base, again, for Days anyway, in that it just seemed like their brand of stupid - up to Serena arriving at the Dimera mansion. I mean, Rolph turning Hope back into Gina hardly phased me, I just thought it was dumb, mostly because John had removed the chip from her years and years ago. At first I thought Hope might be tricking him, but things stopped adding up with Serena; then when Kayla showed up with the scarf she kept making a point of drawing attention to, I knew something was up. I expected her to be a vampire, but basically I knew they were going to pull a reveal that undid everything.
All in all, I will give them credit for staging it subtle enough at first, but honestly; of all the things this show telegraph's, or let's the audience in on the truth way too soon, I have mixed feelings as to whether or not this should have been one of them. I would much rather they play other stories this close to the vest, and be remotely this clever; and occasionally do a free for all romp like this, and lay it all out up front.
