Nov. 9, 2015

I cannot believe what I am watching… as I writer, I am appalled that these scenes would have been written the way they have; I’m thinking, this has got to be a dream sequence – come on, tell me this is a dream sequence! 

 

Then Hope is laying on the floor.  Bo has rushed in the door to save her.  After beating off Aiden and leaving him laying, no so helpless, on the stairs, Bo rushes to Hope’s side and kneels over her.  He touches her and says something like ‘oh no, no…come back to me fancy face, come back to me’; no response.  Them Bo starts to PUMP HER CHEST?  What the hell??  She didn’t have a heart attack – she was strangled (supposedly) to death.  He leans over her, as if to listen for a breath; hears nothing, and starts fake pumping her chest again – so high above her boobs that it would actually only succeed in breaking her sternum rather than bringing her back to life. 

 

Oddly enough, he leans over once more, tells her to breathe, saying “you can do it”…and once again, simply begins his odd version of chest compressions.  I’m sure I am not the only Days of Our Lives fan who has taken CPR classes and anyone should know that if someone is lying on the floor, not breathing, the first thing you do is BREATHE FOR THEM.  Mouth-to-mouth, you know?  Have the writers really never heard of this?  I can’t believe they would have allowed that to pass editing, let alone make the cut for filming.  They should fire the director that permitted that lousy acting to play out, not to mention the writer that stupidly forgot the facts of life (I mean, I know it’s a fantasy, but still…keep it a little real, at least where scientific facts are concerned).  Dead people don’t just start breathing on their own.  However, being that Aiden had just killed her, Hope does have a chance of coming back to life IF someone will give her a breathe – that is, so long as Aiden didn’t crush her trachea, which I’m sure he didn’t, because he barely held that tie around her neck long enough to make her pass out and she had her fingers behind it right up until she gasped her fake last breath.  Aiden then immediately let go of the tie and took if off her neck.  She’s fine.

 

 I forgot to mention the two times Aiden got back up and attacked Bo while he was ‘attempting to save Hope’s life’… she continues to lay on the floor while they wrestle for the third time, still breathless because Bo never once thought to put his mouth to hers in those first few crucial minutes right after he got to her.  After finally defeating Aiden – I think – Bo has crawled back over to Hope.  He grabs her off of the floor, as he sits bloody and battered, still not thinking of giving her a breath, obviously; and he lifts her up to his chest and just holds her, and begins to sob.  It’s been what…maybe ten minutes, max, since he and Aiden have been tugging it out on the floor, across the room, up the stairs and whatnot?  Even if she really hasn’t had a breath for this long, she could be ok if the dumb writer would tell Bo to breathe for her – quick.

 

Meanwhile, Theresa has somehow persuaded Brady (really?) to get into bed with her??  What?  That would NEVER happen.  He loved Melani so much and was SO ANGRY at Theresa for ‘making her leave’, there’s no way he would even want to touch Theresa… the kiss in the parking lot was pushing it.  Come on.  Don’t just ruin the storyline like that for a stupid sex scene that no one wants to see anyway; Brady’s devotion to Mel was appealing – his despise for Theresa and her pathetic puppy-dog-love for him was the ultimate storyline (she wants what she’ll never have).  Now what are your options??  Either Brady decides he has made his bed and will have to lie in it; marries Theresa out of guilt and lives in misery with the mother of his soon-to-be two children…or he says “oops, I did it again”; turns on Theresa once more and tries to explain the trist (and possibly second baby) to  Melani when she unexpectedly decides to come back home, ready to tell Brady she will marry him and fight with him for custody of baby Tate, like she should have done in the first place instead of running away, claiming she had no choice.  But now that Brady has ‘slept with the devil’ again,  Melani will shutter in disgust and be heartbroken and sorry that she returned.  Brady will be sorry too, but will be so roped into Theresa’s tangled web that he’ll probably just let the love of his life walk away again and continue this phony family game with Theresa.  Please no.  The other solution for the writers is to have them both wake up from this dream – her smiling in ecstasy, her smile slowly turning to a frown as she realizes he’s not actually there; and him, screaming in horror as he tries toe escape her grasp in his vision.  There’s still time.

Otherwise, these writers need to get real inventive, real quicke; figure out a way for Hope to miraculously come back to life without the assistance of proper resuscitation and let dumbass-driven-by-his-penis have remembered to put a condom on it, so he can keep the ‘affair’ a secret, at least long enough for him to spew his anger at Theresa for hypnotizing him a while; and long enough for  Melani to come back, agree to marry Brady, fight for custody of Tate, win and celebrate…all the while demonstrating the beautiful, ever-lasting love that Brady and Mel have for each other.  Until the secret comes out, that is.

Come on guys…(or girls) you have to fix this.

Oh looky there; Hope just woke up, without the assistance of so much as a breath!  She came to screaming – and, as if not even surprised, Bo just says “hush, you’re ok baby”… “is it really you?” Hope sobs; “yeah, it’s me”.  How sweet… how dumb.  I’m not saying I don’t like the storyline here… having Bo come back after all this time (pretty much having everyone convinced he was really dead and gone) is nice touch.  But they could have done it without all the stupidity: he could have given Bo a breath or two when he first ran to her side and listened to hear NO air movement – just two quick breaths would have sustained her through Aiden’s first ‘comeback attack’; but then he kneels down by her a second time and just shakes her, and pumps her upper chest again (they could have had him at least place his hands in the proper spot, toward the bottom of the breasts) as he oh-too-gently pretended to press her ‘heart’ back into action, even though I’m sure it hadn’t even stopped, with her barely passing out from lack of air about two minutes prior.

It was just all so hokey.  But now they have everybody’s favorite couple back together again; and there’s danger on his tail, so that will keep their storyline exciting – maybe they can pull the other one back together somehow that isn’t going to be disappointing.  Here’s to hope’n (Bo)!

dbtyon