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The actress who plays Alice Horton on Days of Our Lives has dementia and won't be on the show anymore. And I am sad. I hope that, in the end, they give her a nice funeral like they did when Macdonald Carey died.
That show was great up until Marlena got possessed by the devil. The sight of Deirdre Hall snarling at Stefano while he quivers in fear, shouting "Begone, demon! I denounce you!" was pretty much the end for me. Not because of the cheesy special effects, or even the terrible acting. But because the Stefano diMero I grew up with doesn't cower before anyone. He's the muthafuckin' Phoenix, man! They blew him up and set him on fire like five times and gave him about 10 brain tumors and he still came back to life. A Mayan pyramid collapsed on him! That time they couldn't get the actor to come back so they just had a disembodied voice in the shadows...it was lame, but the rest of the arc was pretty awesome, so I forgave it.
I think this description of Stefano from Wikipedia is pretty hilarious:
Stefano, who at times seemed to have grown to Bond-villain proportions, has dabbled in such various enterprises as drug trafficking, art theft, forgery, political corruption, assassinations, kidnapping and false imprisonment, faking various people's deaths, brainwashing and mind control, infiltrating legitimate businesses and government agencies, building elaborate compounds on various uncharted Caribbean islands, raising private mercenary armies, and orchestrating guerilla wars in Third World countries.
The bit about "various uncharted Caribbean islands" cracks me up. Let's see, there was the island with the quicksand pit where Andre, Tony's evil twin cousin, died and Roman got pushed off the cliff and died. (Or did he? Yeah, no, he didn't. Nice detective work there, Shane Donovan.) There's the island where a comatose Marlena was hidden behind a whole bunch of mosquito netting and was a "mystery woman" even though everyone with a subscription to Soap Opera Digest knew who she was. What other islands were there? Did he own Maison Blanche? That plotline was TERRIBLE.
There were some other villains. Isabella Toscano's dad was pretty useless and basically just did some disappearing trick on a boat and took Hope with him. Lawrence Alamain was all dashing and sexy until Carly basically pussy-whipped him and he got all depressed about John actually being his brother. And Victor Kiriakis was pretty awesome while Stefano was gone in the late '80s/early '90s but became a total waste of space (didn't he have a stroke at one point, and Vivian Alamain was doing crazy shit to him?) once Stefano came back and the show became much more mustache-twirly and over-the-top. Yes, I KNOW in the '80s people got electrocuted in hot tubs and there were evil twin cousins and cross-dressers at weddings and and brainwashing and knife fights/drug deals on boats with Genesis playing in the background. That's pretty over the top. But around 1996, that show went totally off the deep end and never came back.
Plus, Marlena and Hope both now have like 4 children who are all either 6 months old or 30, and none of it makes any sense. And they're all named after dead people, like, WE KNOW, you loved Isabella. WE GET IT, you named the kid Shawn Douglas to make the point that no matter what Victor Kiriakis says Shawn is STILL your father and always will be, and Hope loves her daddy, too. (Even though Doug started out as a total con-artist and was retconned into dad-with-a-heart-of-gold -- not nearly as much of a retcon as Jack Deveraux rapist-turned-quirky-comic-relief/stud thing, though...)
Anyway, this is all just to say that I hope Francis Reid is being well taken care of, and the show is worse for losing her. But it's been pretty bad for a while.
ETA: I just looked on Wikipedia and found out that the guy who plays Bo is about to turn 52. A lot of things make me feel old these days. This has just joined the list. He's also married to a chick that was in the '80s pop group Exposé, but only joined Exposé after they'd already recorded such great hits as "Point of No Return" and "Seasons Change". I owned an Exposé album on vinyl. It's one of the first records I ever bought, along with Pool It by the Monkees and whichever Fat Boys album had "Wipeout" on it.
That show was great up until Marlena got possessed by the devil. The sight of Deirdre Hall snarling at Stefano while he quivers in fear, shouting "Begone, demon! I denounce you!" was pretty much the end for me. Not because of the cheesy special effects, or even the terrible acting. But because the Stefano diMero I grew up with doesn't cower before anyone. He's the muthafuckin' Phoenix, man! They blew him up and set him on fire like five times and gave him about 10 brain tumors and he still came back to life. A Mayan pyramid collapsed on him! That time they couldn't get the actor to come back so they just had a disembodied voice in the shadows...it was lame, but the rest of the arc was pretty awesome, so I forgave it.
I think this description of Stefano from Wikipedia is pretty hilarious:
Stefano, who at times seemed to have grown to Bond-villain proportions, has dabbled in such various enterprises as drug trafficking, art theft, forgery, political corruption, assassinations, kidnapping and false imprisonment, faking various people's deaths, brainwashing and mind control, infiltrating legitimate businesses and government agencies, building elaborate compounds on various uncharted Caribbean islands, raising private mercenary armies, and orchestrating guerilla wars in Third World countries.
The bit about "various uncharted Caribbean islands" cracks me up. Let's see, there was the island with the quicksand pit where Andre, Tony's evil twin cousin, died and Roman got pushed off the cliff and died. (Or did he? Yeah, no, he didn't. Nice detective work there, Shane Donovan.) There's the island where a comatose Marlena was hidden behind a whole bunch of mosquito netting and was a "mystery woman" even though everyone with a subscription to Soap Opera Digest knew who she was. What other islands were there? Did he own Maison Blanche? That plotline was TERRIBLE.
There were some other villains. Isabella Toscano's dad was pretty useless and basically just did some disappearing trick on a boat and took Hope with him. Lawrence Alamain was all dashing and sexy until Carly basically pussy-whipped him and he got all depressed about John actually being his brother. And Victor Kiriakis was pretty awesome while Stefano was gone in the late '80s/early '90s but became a total waste of space (didn't he have a stroke at one point, and Vivian Alamain was doing crazy shit to him?) once Stefano came back and the show became much more mustache-twirly and over-the-top. Yes, I KNOW in the '80s people got electrocuted in hot tubs and there were evil twin cousins and cross-dressers at weddings and and brainwashing and knife fights/drug deals on boats with Genesis playing in the background. That's pretty over the top. But around 1996, that show went totally off the deep end and never came back.
Plus, Marlena and Hope both now have like 4 children who are all either 6 months old or 30, and none of it makes any sense. And they're all named after dead people, like, WE KNOW, you loved Isabella. WE GET IT, you named the kid Shawn Douglas to make the point that no matter what Victor Kiriakis says Shawn is STILL your father and always will be, and Hope loves her daddy, too. (Even though Doug started out as a total con-artist and was retconned into dad-with-a-heart-of-gold -- not nearly as much of a retcon as Jack Deveraux rapist-turned-quirky-comic-relief/stud thing, though...)
Anyway, this is all just to say that I hope Francis Reid is being well taken care of, and the show is worse for losing her. But it's been pretty bad for a while.
ETA: I just looked on Wikipedia and found out that the guy who plays Bo is about to turn 52. A lot of things make me feel old these days. This has just joined the list. He's also married to a chick that was in the '80s pop group Exposé, but only joined Exposé after they'd already recorded such great hits as "Point of No Return" and "Seasons Change". I owned an Exposé album on vinyl. It's one of the first records I ever bought, along with Pool It by the Monkees and whichever Fat Boys album had "Wipeout" on it.
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I watched the show religiously in the very early 80s. Sounds like you kept up with it a bit longer than I did. :)
Poor Alice. :(
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Another island: the one where Hope got trapped with the girl with mud all over her and the magic orchid that cured Jungle Madness (at least I think that's what happened, it was ages ago).
I haven't watched Days in a decade but I will always have very fond memories of it.
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