Christmas to Week Ending 1-8-2016

With Christmas right around the corner this week, all of Salem is celebrating.  Nobody seems to notice Chad’s strange behavior as he does his best to court Belle.  Theresa and Brady are still playing house, Lucas is desperately missing Will, Abby is moping around, Hope has been arrested for murder, and all the old folks are reminiscing (week end 12-25).

Rafe is diligently trying to prove Hope’s innocence, while keeping his feelings for her under wraps; Abby finally suspects that something is wrong with Chad… she questions Stephano and Andre’, but gets nowhere of course; and Theresa’s fashion show was almost a disaster.  She pulls it off, though, of course.   The New Year’s Eve party brings the town together; Gabby and JJ are getting close, Steve and Kayla are a couple again, Daniel and Nichole are engaged to be married - Eric doesn’t look happy about that - and Basic Black is a success with the girls running it.  Abby’s baby is sick; the tests ran in the hospital revealed that Ben is not the father; that means Chad is the father and Abby is elated about that, thinking it will change everything once she tells him (week end 12-31).

Abby finally gets the chance to tell Chad that he is the father, on New Year’s Day… he doesn’t believe her, though.  Accuses her of lying, to try to get him back.  But once he holds the baby again, he starts to remember – crying, he begs Abby to forgive him.  Eric is rushed into the hospital, after Brady and Abby’s mom (I forget her name, oops)… drinking and driving after leaving the party, he caused a pile up; apparently, he really wasn’t happy when he saw Nichole and Daniel kiss.  Daniel is brought in next.  Chad and Abby bump into each other in the elevator – he’s there to have his own paternity test run.  Apparently, Daniel is beyond saving; his heart goes to Brady…they feel Eric could recover with other treatment.  Kayla performed the heart transplant… so I guess Daniel is really off of the show.  Brady woke up, pretty much; Rafe said Eric’s blood-alcohol level was “through the roof” (week ending 1-8).  Wow.  What do they have in store for us next?

Week ending 12-18-2015

Now, Chad and Abby start making plans for the future, go get the baby checked out at the hospital, and Chad decides he wants to go back to see Marlaina(sp?) again – to try to figure out what happened during his ‘blackouts’.  As soon as he is hypnotized, the office door opens (which is stupid, because any therapist would have the door locked during a hypnosis session with a client); in walks Chad’s conniving uncle, and chloroforms Marlaina!  When she comes to, Chad is missing – and the automatic assumption is that Chad attacked her?  They figured out it wasn’t him before… why would they suspect him now??  So… supposedly still hypnotized, Chad is ‘brainwashed’ by his uncle to break up with Abby and to put the moves on Belle instead (week ending 12-18).

Belle is hesitantly holding the key to all the money Sammi stole from Stephano’s family, while Sammi is on the run and no one knows where she is.  Abby comes to tell Chad some good news, not knowing that he is supposedly still hypnotized (end of week 12-18).

So now Abby is shocked by Chad’s sudden “breakup” with her, but seems to accept it without questioning too much – I figured she would just know something was wrong… optimistic me.  But instead of noticing that something is obviously not right with him, she just gets pissed and decides they don’t need him.  Whatever.

 

Hope caved into the kidnappers to get her daughter back; then, obviously thinking about shooting the guy responsible, she takes her gun to the park – and someone else shoots the guy, supposedly, with her gun (but she came home and put the gun away, so… idk). 

Week ending 12-11-2015

(Prepared, 01-08-16)

Ok, so it’s been a few weeks – I’ve just been at a loss for words as of late – and busy with school… so, instead of a cavalry waiting outside the door of the cabin to rescue Abby and Chad from the fire, Chad somehow (magically) slipped his hand out of his cuff AND got Abby out of hers (not sure how); and what about the ones that were one their ankles??  There was a cuff on each of their ankles, too, wasn’t there?  I don’t know.  Maybe I’m confused.  I could swear Ben had cuffed each of them, wrist and ankle.

So Chad and Abby get off the bed and out of the cabin without so much as a mild burn, and the cabin goes up in flames behind them; then they simply go back to town and tell everyone about it, as if it’s not that a big a deal.  I can't believe that Rafe didn't have a whole team on the way to get them... Abby's mom told him how worried she was - he already knew Chad was on his way - why did he do nothing???  Abby is frantic wanting to know where Ben left the baby, while Ben is in custody now and totally incoherent.

Meanwhile, Hope goes on a mission to find out who had been holding Bo captive, takes, ties up and threatens to torture one of the guys she knows is involved (but he overpowers her), and then Ciara gets kidnapped and threatened.

 

And… I’m sorry, but I just don’t buy this kissy, wissy, lovey, dovey relationship that Brady and Theresa supposedly have now.  He’s acting like he’s head over heels for her.  It just doesn’t fly with me; and I’m sure I’m not the only one that feels this way.  Totally bored with that storyline. Yawn.