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Mood: Evil ]
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Currently: Watching Coronation Street ]
I have waxed poetic on this site before about Days of Our Lives being genre fiction. And so has Joe. And some of you have hurled at the thought, but I have further justification.
They are bringing John Black back from the dead.
Why is this significant?
Well they just killed him.
Normally in the soap world, people are killed off and then we wait a while before they are brought back. This gives the actor some time to try other projects before coming back. Like Patch. He was gone for a decade or so. Did some other TV, did some other soaps and some forgettable movies.
But not John. He’s barely gone a month and he’s coming back.
Now you might think that I would be happy with these turn of events, but no, I’m not. Drake Hogestyn (the actor who plays John) is not a master thespian. He and his on screen love Marlena (played by Deidre Hall) are such melodramatic over actors. In addition, the botox and plastic surgery have rendered their faces immovable. Watching the two of them on screen is like watching a pair of Japanese androids do Romeo and Juliet.
As much as I love the Days, this is not a good thing.