I totally disliked Melanie when she first came on…FF’d through hours of the show then…but now she’s kind of grown on me ~ and I’m more Marlena’s and Hope’s age group – I think that Phillip and Mel are a match made in perverbial Day’s heaven if they are given a chance to develop together sort of like the early Bo and Hope. Bo is older than Hope so Phillip isn’t too old for Mel really.