Can’t say things didn’t happen in Days in February…
Colleen died
Shawn died
Kim dyed
Bo got sick and lied
Bo crashed and got shocked
Marlena got clocked
Anna and Tony rocked
John’s hair remained shocked
The crashing plane got tick-tocked
There were flashbacks that made it easier to fast-forward
And flashbacks we adored
EJ got degrees in baby-sitting and law, in roughly the same amount of time
Shawn and Belle reunited for no reason at all, and suddenly everything was fine
Lucas went to jail for something he actually did but first had to say goodbye seventy-five times
The dialogue was often as bad as these attempts at rhymes
Quitting the bad rhyming, the other points I noticed about this last month in Days:
John was snarky and it was good, though based on his post-plane crash recovery he may well now actually be the Terminator. My vote for best couple of sweeps: John and Claire. That’s a fact.
The plane crash itself was both endless and kind of fantastic, though I’ll admit that in doing the rapid catch-up I was more absorbed by what happened after the plane hit the ground because that moved the stories forward, than by the actual plane emergency. I thought most of it was well done, though I did have to note the following on the more snarky front:
- charming how the adults on the plane cuddled while leaving the child to sit all alone
- charming also how, once they found all the tents and flipping bed linen in the crashed plane, the virile and uninjured went off to have varying degrees of sex in the protected tents while the injured were left to suffer it out in the semi-exposed fuselage. While everyone back home prayed for them. And then they talked about the sex, or lack thereof, and talked, and talked, and it was bad
- Chloe’s over-breathing drove me nuts
- the way they all ended up resembling extras in a Star Wars movie was simultaneously amusing and distracting
- the configuration of the plane changed mid-scene
- Marlena’s overkill jewellery survived the crash nicely
- Victor and Caroline’s husband-isn’t-quite-dead-yet flirting with anvils hurt my head
Before they got to the crash though, the two most annoying parts of the wrap up of the Ireland story were, first, Marlena continually repeating that no one would believe what she was going to tell them next as if she’s never taken part in this show before. This is the woman with the recently dead robotic husband squiring her around; she can hardly think her companions will never believe that said husband is related to half of them. Second was them wrapping up that whole story without including Sami or EJ at all. Made no sense.
Moving on to Shawn’s death and funeral, the way they all stood around without actually telling Caroline that Shawn was dead until they rolled the body in started out feeling wrong, and ended up being a quite skilled trick of mass avoidance. Another quite skilled trick of mass avoidance: managing to have Stephanie grieve for her grandfather and Max grieve for his father while never mentioning or even alluding to the fact that those two are the same person.
As has been mentioned by many others, Days does give good funeral. Even if half the Brady family could act with their whole faces and the other half couldn’t. It was also nice that Abe was included as part of the family – he’s earned it over the years – though the fact that Ali Sweeney’s parts of the wake were clearly shot separately was kind of distracting, as was Stephanie’s mysterious absence. I’m also glad that Caroline told Victor it would be inappropriate for her to show up at her husband’s funeral on Victor’s arm, because that was exactly the note I had made about him not waiting for the body to get cold (pun intended) before hitting on her before she called him on that very point. For that piece of wisdom, I’m not sure why she’s suddenly embracing EJ though, and I cheered a little when Kim told him she was shunning him not for the sins of his family but for his own damn sins.
For the record, it was Sami’s hug of Roman while Chloe was singing at the end of the service that got me all teared up.
The big events aside, my other favourite things from the month in Days were:
- Max and Stephanie
- Johnson family chemistry shining through post-crash
- Isabella getting several mentions
- “I’m not jealous, I just think it was inappropriate for you to be flirting with Marlena’s brain damaged husband.”
- Bo’s death warmed over make-up
- “Promise me you’ll never use that metaphor again.”
- “Tony takes the term dictation to a whole new level.”
Moving forward, so far I’m pulled in to the Nutso Ava story, especially given that she seems to be focused on not only Kayla but other members of the family as well. Though I’ll be thrilled if Steve’s broken ribs heal quickly so the flailing and gasping goes away.
As for the debate over Stefano’s money, I’m not so sure. If we could not see John and Marlena every single day, I’d be pleased, and I’m not sure why John cares about the money anyway. Isn’t he a multi-billionaire? Plus, they’ve lost major points with me from day one having started about dividing up the estate of a guy who is still alive based on unexecuted Wills and making crap up. I’m a lawyer, I can’t help it. Further proof that EJ’s law degree on a can of racing car motor oil taught him absolutely nothing.
What’s your take on Days in February?
Caps courtesy Days2.
