The Will/Sonny wedding would have had more impact if the show would have given the audience more time to get adjusted to seeing Guy Wilson’s Will with Sonny. I am trying to be patient with the pair, but it feels almost like Sonny is being unfaithful to Chandler Massey’s Will.

The speech Caroline Brady gave was great. Alison Sweeney’s Sami knocked it out of the park again. Her sobbing during the wedding made it feel more real. I would have loved to have seen Kate be able to speak from the heart and show a softer side.

GHs…51st anniversary was not as good as it shouldve been…its like throwing a party and hardly anyone showed up…too much focus on Carly/Sonny and barely anyone else was in the episode…and whats to celebrate when the rest of the show focused on a death…and days later no real follow up with A.J.s death…Monica should have been shown grieving at the Q mansion looking over old photos of A.J. with Tracy comforting her…same with Micheal who should have been there with his grandmother…soap characters are like family…when their happy i want to feel happy for them…when they are sad and grieving over the tragic loss of a loved one i want to feel for them…soaps used to be like that..tug at your heart…get you involved…make you feel like you are part of their world…like they are real people who you know and care about…know what im saying!!! Guess they dont write them the way they used to…and thats why there are only four left…imo!!!

Regardless of people’s views on gays or gay marriage, Days of our Lives was THE show to watch last week! Everybody should look those episodes up and watch them.

who the freak knows, how do they come up with the numbers to begin with? how do they count those key demo #? its all confusing. hopefully things will improve especially for GH. So far i’m happy that Rebecca Herbts is in the forefront of sort hopefully she will carry her own storyline and i wish Finola Hughes would take center stage more, and I wish/hope that RC would realize that he doesn’t have to dumb down certain characters to make others look better, GH would be so much better if the good guys were more on even par with the villains. i hate those scenes where characters like sonny, julian an ava act like the police i.e Anna an company are an annoyance and then you have all these other characters who show no respect for them either. like rick, alexis, sam and tracy. if anything, Anna and Alexis should be friends who might not agree on each others tactics but at least would still respect each other. plus Anna shouldn’t be played so straight , afterall she’s been a double agent , she’s lied and cross the line, she should use those tactics to go up against these wannabe villains . i’m not saying cross the line, but at least come close enough to make her opponents fear her more. i just hate seeing this great female character played out like an unworthy opponent . and i also wish they would show her kicking ass. back in the good old days, you saw her kick ass, now under RC, so far she’s been handcuffed by lucy, and over powered by both crazy dr. O and lunatic Heather. This is not my; Anna that i love. ok, nothing can stop me from loving my Anna, best female character in all of daytime, but Rc is sure good at ruining some characters and he needs to stop trying to ruin Anna.

”’why the decline in viewers last week? ”’
..
Because the rating are a rollercoaster, always have been always will be an up and ride..
Never is one thing the reason, never..

The soap fans are frantic over ratings… geez that is so lame..it’s numbers..
All I care about is enjoying my soap!!
As long as I’m happy I could care less about numbers that rotate..
Soaps will be up one day down the next, never ending rise and fall of numbers..
I don’t worry over ratings 🙂

No matter the numbers, Y&R has not been better than GH ..
(number pffffttt..

The 50th and the return of the Nurses Ball was important to viewers. Robin’s return was important to viewers. Jason’s return was equally important. But suddenly viewers are supposed to warp let alone extend their imaginations to have serial killers/mass murderers running Hospitals and essentially Homeland Security type bureaus. The DC slant is becoming all a bit much with every villain you can think of popping up on the canvas..characters up and exiting/dying..babies found and stolen again…it’s as if RC is writing to the end of a story instead of THE STORY…DAYS is plodding..with characters who should make sense yet don’t..characters who should be on the canvas..yet aren’t..characters who have NO BUSINESS sitting in Alice’s park or anywhere NEAR her memorial bench..it’s a hodgepodge of boring..ooo like that..and twice as much more boring…really with that JORDAN debacle…Love love love Kristen…and the whole LADIES WHO SHOULD NEVER LUNCH…Kate/Sami/Gabi..et al…but the show is NOT cohesive..and Abe and Lexi were so mismatched yet worked..but ABE/MAXINE..EWWW..At one point the remaining soaps need to have fresh new blood from writers even if they are from other countries and need to move FORWARD…It’s no longer the GOLDEN AGE of THE PERILS OF PAULINE…PLEASE..just give us a whole new and fresh outlook on DayTime with it’s existing players..IT AIN’T the actors fault the majority of the time….and stop hiring gay writers who don’t appreciate hetero viewers…

Gh is a mess but days has been wonderful as always

Don’t the upper echelon know that more people record the shows? Very tired of the antiquated rating system.

An inadequate rating system is to blame.. and quite surprised that the ratings still do not allow for online viewing and recording.

People get busy and save up for a marathon view it it best suits THEIR time.

I did not watch DAYs at all, the whole idea of a gay wedding offends me. I quit watching when even Great-grandma Caroline was all enthusiastic about it. The only people I like on DAYS these days is Eric and Jennifer. Everybody else is too liberal. Why does a soap have to take one side on this polarizing issue and bad-mouth those of us on the other side? Do they think we find this entertaining?!

I thought the Wilson wedding was very well done. However, I feel Days is going downhill. They killed the Nicole Eric story with that stupid evidence thing. They need to give us some closure on Bo. I could never watch Days if I couldn’t record it.

I love Y and R, only soap I have watched now for years.
Mostly I DVR it and watch 2 at a time.

The days wedding might have had more viewers if it felt like Sonny was marrying Will Horton. Guy Wilson’s emotionless and robotic form of acting made it feel like Sonny was marrying a stranger and NOT the person fans have watched him be with for the last couple of years. If Days and mangement had given fans what they wanted and waited for, a wedding with the characters played by Freddie and Chandler, ratings would have been higher. No amount of press or interviews or selfies he takes on set that seem to be forced on fans from Guy Wilson are going to convince us he is a good actor and is portraying this character properly. Maybe the couple could be salvaged with a recast that can actually act and knows who Will Horton is.

Yeah the ratings are down for all 4 soaps this weeks but for most of them they were up from the same time last year.The week to week ratings go up and down all the time.Plus the networks may look at the ratings increases or decreases differently we do.They may look at all the ratings categories and not just overall viewers.

Maybe the soaps would have more viewers if, They listened to the viewers! I don’t watch days since they killed off Jack, and decided a rapist was the only one to be with their victim, Namely EJ and Sami. GH what can I say a mobster walks up to ANOTHER man shoots him in cold blood and is the victim.? I have watched soaps for YEEAARRSS. Now they are not something I care about. ON GH evil rules. That is my take on why they are losing viewers. I have no interest in keeping the ratings up for something that insults my intelligence.

Soaps need new viewers, with that being said if you bring in the two original Carly’s there is a good chance that the newer viewership is not going to care. However this new storyline with Obrecht/Donna Mills is creating a lot of buzz this week. For Days of Our Lives, a nice wedding without drama does not even exist in real life so why give that much for airtime in a SOAP. The drama was EJ going to Chicago to meet a hippy dippy guy (James Scott seemed pushed to have a scene). Also Day’s of Our Lives seems to have lost its way, from the shocking scenes they were showing in January. Who wants to watch about bake sales? Days of Our Lives lacks the sleek look Soaps used to have, it has a very lower middle class feel to it. Soaps are meant to be an escape for women watching it, nobody wants to be going to bake sales and watch them on their telly.

Because of spring break…

I had beent thinking about giving Days a try for sometime and started watching during the wedding week. Not that I was interested in the wedding. I thought they would put their best foot forward for the special occasion and it would be a good time to just take a look at the show. I have continued to watch daily this week and I am certainly impressed by the quality of the production. As far as story lines go, I’m interested in the pharmaceutical rep who is stalking the PR woman and drugging her doctor boyfriend. He looks nuts. I do not trust the tall blonde woman who wants to marry the ex-priest. She’s a shady lady and I hope the ex-priest finds out soon. He seems like a nice guy and shouldn’t be saddled with the likes of her. I really don’t trust the scruffy young man who is after the young woman with the baby. I plan to keep watching and hopefully learn who all these people are.

Does Michael Fairman have any pull with the days of our lives writers. Wish he did and could let them know how they screwed up the Nicole Eric story. First of all with the evidence, and secondly making it look like the church wouldn’t accept Nicole. As a Catholic I was offended. Are any of the writers even Catholic. I really hate all this priest stuff. Either Eric wants to stay a priest or not. So many dans have been happy to finally see Nicole happy and the writers are going to screw it up. I started watching days when I was 20. Just turned 69 and my Days watching has finally come to a close.

Soaps fans are mostly women and we don’t get excited by gay male pairings! We want heterosexual romance and we aren’t getting it! On GH, the 51st Anniversary ep was pathetic! The 3 Carlys was a PR stunt with no substance and basically meaningless since Sonny and Carly haven’t been a couple for years! The death of AJ was offensive and pointless! Audiences want to see more of the Q’s not less and AJ is a legacy character who should have been put in a coma rather than killed! Killing the character added nothing to the storyline! Another issue at GH is Ron Carlivati who seems determined to remake the soap into his vision of GH rather than honoring the history of the show or the vets which is deeply upsetting to long time viewers! Add to that the choppy storylines with no details on the journey, no romance and too many new characters/favoritism for RC’s characters and you have a problem! I have watched GH for 38 years and RC and Guza are the worst showrunners the show has ever had!

Love Sonny and Will, and have loved their storyline, but even I missed the wedding scene which I have been so supportive of. I think it got buried in other storylines that weren’t interesting me as much, and somehow I missed it. Will try to see it at some point,. It may also have been the timing. It has been a long and cold winter in some parts, and it had just started warming up, so maybe people were out and about more.

On another note…can someone please slap The arrogance from Gabi’s face?

I think that Ari will be taken from Gabi. When Sami called her an unfit mother…well, the writing’s on the wall. Perhaps she and Nick will run away with the baby.

Reading these comments takes a lot of fun out of watching soaps. Still, love Sonny and Will, tho! Without WilSon, Days would not be timely or relevant. That said, it is draggy, pacing too slow, some scenes unnecessary to tell a story. Can’t live in the past or turn back the clock, after all, it’s 2014 not 1914, but I do watch reruns of vintage soaps when I need a nostalgia fix. Those old school romances are still out there for those who want to re-live them.

Mark, believe me, I agree with you…the storyline surrounding Dr. O is beyond ridiculous. But, that is the point…I just get a kick out of her….her antics never fail to entertain me. No doctor would get away with the crimes she continues to commit, ….I am enjoying it thoroughly. I do not get to watch as much as I would like….so, the completely incredible plot twists make my head spin…in a good way.

OMG…there goes Nick, working Gabi. He just threw an-I’m-so-sorry-but-I-gotta-go line at her. Wow, Master Manipulator is showing his cards, one at a time.

Writers, please don’t make Gabi appear so dumb!…Nick does not love her…it is all about sweet revenge. Voila’, mes amis, he is succeeding.
Also, writers. Ari is over a year old, no? Why is she still being strolled around in a pram? Those things are designed for infants…just a few months old. Why is she not walking? And, why, oh why does she still sound like a neonate when she cries? C’mon, now…can you please try to make it a bit more realistic? Just sayin’.

Hi, Matthew. All I can say is that I know two gay guys very well. That does not make me a connoisseuse (fem.), for lack of a better word, nor do I profess to be one. These guys are two of my older sister’s best friends whom she has known since grade school. My sister is straight and married…these friends were groomsmen at her wedding amidst my father’s grumbling. (I am being honest, here). When they came out, my mother did not blink an eye..my father, on the other hand, is another story. Don’t get me wrong, my dad is never disrespectful…he is very cordial, actually. You see, Matthew, we all loved these friends before they came out and we still love them today. Coincidentally, I may be blue-eyed and blond, but I also have black first cousins in Johannesburg, So. Africa. I do not normally refer to them as “my black first cousins”, but I needed to make a point…..
…..My point…it is not tolerance we have for them…just, honest-to-goodness love. It makes no difference what our sexual preference is, or the color of our skin, albeit I must agree with Maddie…propaganda? What say you? I admire your thought process. 🙂

Hi, again Michael. I really appreciate your answer…and you are correct. We should always know where one stands. I do not really go by statistics because they change from day to day, and not very reliable. Perhaps I misspoke and at this point I can answer my own question. Yes, I do believe every network, every program, every soap has an agenda. The scope is to attract viewers for the ratings. I get that. DOOL was very well aware this wedding would amass both controversy and ratings……so , my question is…did TPTB do the gay community a disservice using this wedding as bait as a means to an end? And, we do know the writers’s intent….it is always about the ratings. My mother said that the only other wedding she can remember having the same fanfare, for lack of a better word, was GH’s Luke and Laura’s wedding. Dool presented a perfect wedding and It was a good story…I believe it is the second gay wedding on daytime. The first, I think was AMC. Trust me, we have discussed this with friends, both gay and straight at the “round table” (lol) in my parents’s kitchen. … We never did come up with an answer..Ha, Ha. Each one of us wants to be right all the time.Lol.
Personally, I thought the wedding was great. I watched it and did not find it odd. I did not mind the wedding. It is the sexual content on daytime that bothers me…both gay and straight. I am tired of looking at dopey ,Brady’s chest…as much as WilSon’s. My mother keeps complaining that she can’t watch soaps in peace any more because she takes care of my 3-year old niece , off and on….very inquisitive kid….doesn’t miss a beat.
Another topic we discuss quite often is …..Is homosexuality a choice? Many think it is. I do not…I do not think that one morning a man/woman wakes up and decides to be gay…it is what it is.
In a few weeks I will be leaving for Europe…dividing my time and studies between Milan and Zurich ,(my mother is in tears)…..I will miss these chats…I am glad I communicated with you, Michael…you are a nice guy. ….I am very fussy about my grammar and spelling…I hope there aren’t that many typos.

Fas, your writing is fine, no typos, bu we all make them at times. It just shows how meticulous you are to be concerned. Only thing is my name is not Michael. lol It’s Matthew, but I knew you were speaking to me — so no harm, no foul. I do understand about sex on soaps and TV in general. I watch a mix of current TV shows and older. Most older shows have less sex, with some soaps in the ’90s being the exception. I am glad you responded. You have a wonderful outlook on life. Let no one change you. I expect you’ll be very successful in life and your chosen profession. I can only imagine how your mom feels. Europe sounds exciting, though. Wishing you a wonderful, enlightening trip. All the best to you. 🙂

You cannot force people to watch what they do not want to watch. There are probably a lot of loyal Days fans who, like me never approved of the Wilson storyline. Such fans would not enjoy watching a Wilson wedding. I did watch. The build up to the event sparked my curiosity about how the writers would handle it.

To those Days fans who did not watch but are curious, at the end, those attending the “wedding” threw rice! Now if the notion of a gay marriage is strange enough, seeing people throw rice at a gay couple reinforced how ridiculous the notion of gay marriage is. A lot of traditions in a heterosexual couple’s wedding is symbolic of real possibilities for the happy couple. Throwing rice is symbolic of wishing the couple will be blessed with biological children conceived within the marriage. Not possible for a gay couple.

The whole “rice throwing” fiasco at the Wilson wedding emphasised the confusion that exists regarding sexuality and the definition of marriage. “Marriage” can NEVER mean the union of a same sex couple. That whole concept is ridiculous! Now do I understand the idea of commitment regarding a same sex couple? Yes. (Do I approve it? No.)

There are many types of commitment between individuals. Persons who join sororities/fraternities make a commitment to their sisters/brothers. Business partners make a commitment to each other. So commitment is not hard to understand. But marriage is a union between a man and woman that involves a lifelong commitment with the capability of procreation. Such a commitment is in a category all by itself and cannot be duplicated or altered, lest the commitment ceases to be a marriage.

I think the whole gay marriage topic reeks of confusion. That confusion was on display at Days’ Wilson wedding.