Patti

here’s a girl (and she is a girl to me) who is squeamish about saying “bitch” in front of her Aunt Maggie seriously crushing on a man like E.J. DiMera, who is so in love with Samantha Brady he can’t see straight hmmm …. Samantha v. Abbey …. LOL, talk about comparing oranges and apples. She (Abbey) couldn’t even accept Chad, who, although he lied to her, really was crazy in love with her, but she could adjust to the lifestyle of E.J. Sorry, Bon, but “interesting” is not the word I would use to imagine the possibility of an E.J. DiMera/Abigail Devereaux pairing. Laughable would work for me, though.

but I want a serious hurt to befall this character. I don’t love to hate Theresa …… I just hate her —- strong word or not. This foul creature would have to stand on a ladder to look a snake in the eye!!!

the best and most truth-revealing I have ever seen them have since they were finally made a legitimate couple. The yelling and loud screaming by both actors was very believable to me, considering everything they are concealing about one another — and isn’t that why they are both so guilty — because the one truth that neither Sami nor E.J. could accept about one another has always been their trust issues. Now that they both have an unscrupulous secret that they are hiding from each other, they are trying to blame those trust issues on the lies they are telling (or not telling) one another to cover up the fact that they are, in fact, not being truthful, and the merry-go-round that is controlling their lives continues. If, in fact, they are ever going to make it, this is the way I see it happening —- pack up the lies, the secrets, the trust issues and stop blaming the other for things you are doing yourself. If not, this relationship is doomed and I don’t want to see that happen. I thought, despite the very loud, very angry tone they both exhibited, I thought it was probably the most truthful they have ever been to one another as to WHY they have the issues they do have. It was very well done, IMO.

I mean, let’s face it, she doesn’t have much luck with the men, and Abbey strikes me as the kind of person that if you show her a little kindness, compliment her, and take into account her “daddy” issues …. seems to me she gets hooked easily, and with E.J. being E.J., being kind to her, showing her his tender side, expressing his self in a manner no one is used to seeing or hearing from E.J. DiMera, I can see Abbey getting all ga-ga over him, especially since she thinks he’s “not a bad man.” Little does she know he can wrap her around his little finger anytime he needs to, but in no way are they chem-testing these two. That would be absurd IMO. No, this will be Abbey’s crush, not E.J.’s. I’m sure that the love of his life is still Sami. I would not, however, put it past him to use Abbey’s sudden affection for him to be a way for E.J. to give Sami a wake-up call as far as their own relationship is concerned. I would never want to see it go any further, though!

so I don’t know how people can believe it was not for money, since PR has joined at least 3 negotiation discussions since he left, with no success. Personally, I don’t care how they write him out, but I say DO it. Kristian is far too wonderful an actress as well as a staple on DOOL to be left floundering like this, and I think most fans are over Bo’s being “out of town” this long, and for what —- to “keep the door open” for an actor who obviously does not want to walk through it unless it’s lined with gold. BAH…cut him loose and give Hope and Ciara a new life. Enough is enough!!!

and listening to their snarks and quips at each other has certainly put more than one smile on my face last week. Too many to list my favorites, but two I can recall would be when Kate said that Sami needed to “tone it down”, and Sami bounced back with “sort of like your make-up” (or words to that effect), and also when Kate asked Gabi if she wanted to see Ari’s mother, or her ‘grandmother’ in jail, and Sami immediately followed it with ‘or her GREAT-grandmother. Good stuff from these three, I must say!

I love Chrishell Stause …. I was so glad when I heard she was coming to DOOL after watching her for so long on All My Children. She’s a completely different type of character here, and off to a sort of slow and sort of boring start, but now that I know she’s at least got a back-story and that we know there is something very secretive about her, I’m a lot more interested. Between Kate finding out that up until a short time before coming to Salem, “Jordan Ridgeway” didn’t exist, then the telephone calls she’s been getting, and subtle changes in her appearance, I definitely see something down the road that will make this character a lot more interesting to me. As for her and Rafe, I do see their chemistry and as long as they keep it moving slowly and not have them hop into bed next week, I’ll continue to support this couple. I’m just waiting to see how Kate is going to respond to Rafe’s interest in Jordan. I’m hoping she has enough on her mind with the Nick storyline to keep it off of Rafe and Jordan growing closer (although I doubt it). I don’t need another Kate and her poison apples or brownies or whatever else storyline. Kate needs to move on from Rafe and accept the fact that Rafe was lonely and jealous of E.J. and Sami, and he allowed his self to think with another part of his anatomy…hence the cougar storyline, which never interested me from the beginning. They were both simply satisfying a sexual need …. that’s it!!!