Patti

Bo is just fed up with the work; that there’s only so much he can do as a detective, and it’s no longer enough for him.  Seems to me it’s more of a mid-life crisis that he’s going through.  What I’m having a hard time with is Hope’s constant ‘pushing’ him to leave a 20-year job with no idea of how they are going to make it work.  It’s almost sounding like she wants him to go.  I know that’s not the case, but it’s how it appears to me.  I’m very perturbed at how Bo’s exit is being written.   Peter has three weeks of air-time left.  How are they going to justify a proper story line knowing that after that time the network, Corday Productions, SONY and the general audience will be saying goodbye to Beauregard Aloysius Brady with nothing more than a cake with his face on it.  Beats me!!!

were not right on the money where Jim Lehrer was concerned.   The candidates talked over Lehrer’s attempts to keep them to time restrictions, and the moderator’s open-ended questions frequently lacked sharpness, let alone authority to control the candidates’ responses.  Eventually, Lehrer gave up trying to control the situation entirely.

Not so much —- Nicole …. despise her right now.  Her manipulation and deceit are overbearing, baby or no baby.  If that kid dies, it will be because of Nicole’s burdening of that child with all the stress she puts on it inside the womb.  What a horrible nut job she’s turned into.

I like Sami and Rafe reuniting, and loved the way they did it.  Always love happy endings — at least this week anyway.

So sick of E.J. DiMera’s bullying and OTT actions.  Chad was wrong, though …. E.J. can’t make a pimple on Stefano’s big ole’ butt!

Maggie and Victor have become a snooze festival … totally boring;

Jennifer needs to pay more attention to what Abbey’s going through right now and let Daniel make his own mistakes.  I do think Maggie was right in telling Jen to stop hurting Daniel, though.  Every time I see Jennifer worrying about Daniel and using the loss of his career as her excuse to worry, I could just slap her.  Jennifer Rose is another character who is being destroyed by bad writing.  I almost wish she would leave Salem, but Abbey stays.

I hope Chad is the DiMera who helps take down Stefano and E.J., or else we are just going to keep repeating the same stories for this disgusting family.  Oh well, maybe Kristen will be the one to light the fire with these writers.  I certainly hope so; otherwise, Y&R has lost a wonderful actress, taken from them by SONY and placed with a show that is not too successful right now …. but then neither are the other soaps.

I am concerned for Bo’s exit story line.  His last air date is the last week in October, which is like 3 weeks from now; so, how much of an exit story line are they going to provide for a deserving, loved vet like Peter Reckell.

Finally, I am enjoying Nick and Gabi; however, I don’t think Gabi should have gotten away with what she did.  She may not have been responsible for Andrew going all psycho on Melanie, but she did know what he was doing, and why he did it, and didn’t come forward, resulting in the DAYSaster.  Too bad someone didn’t think of recovering Andrew’s cell phone, proving that Gabi knew what Andrew did and then conspired with him to keep Mel under lock and key.  Another lost potential story line there.  Gabi and Nick do make a cute couple, though.

the moderator, on the other hand, was a joke. 

The critiques came from several sides of the media spectrum.

“Boy, Jim Lehrer got rolled over,” MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough said on “Morning Joe” on Thursday morning. “You could see an exasperated look on Jim’s face when they would just keep plowing right over him,” said Gretchen Carlson on “Fox & Friends” on Fox News. Speaking on CNBC Thursday morning, Steve Liesman offered up what he called a “private-sector solution” to the moderator dilemma: “Why can’t the two guys just take care of themselves?”

I could not agree more!!!

better yet, let Daniel suffer the consequences of Nicole’s entrapment.  Jennifer’s only concern right now should be Abigail.  Still wish she would not have taken her job back at the hospital.

whatever happens, I can’t stand Nicole right now.  If her baby is indeed dead, she’ll probably be thinking more about how to use it for Daniel’s sympathy than she will about the baby being dead.  Nicole just disgusts me.

she’s made several mistakes with names.  She’s also forgetting that a supplier’s merchandise was received; Gabi had to tell her it was, and that she (Caroline) signed for it; and there’s the bank deposit she claims to have made when she didn’t.  Now, today she got lost driving home.  Bo reminded her she’s been driving these streets many years and is getting concerned.  Then, yesterday she told Gabi that Maggie married her "Shawn."  Gabi had to remind her that Maggie was married to Victor.  They seem to be taking it slow for now.  I just hope they do the story justice, and Peggie looks like she could pull it off.  Don’t think its been done before, either.