SafChaleur

I've been watching this show since I was a child. News Flash! Many DAYS viewers are competent and intelligent people. We enjoy suspending reality and watching good melodrama. Escapism is an important way of coping with all the problems in the world.

I understand the plot lines and the characters of DAYS because I've known the characters for so long, they actually feel like part of my life. In particular, I love the way the characters celebrate big life and death events and we experience their grief/happiness. I love the pattern that has been established over years of viewing. Yes, I even love the implausibility of many of the events, including the way DAYS has of bringing evil characters back from the dead.

So it is not necessary to change the format!

Recently, I was upset when the HEAD WRITER decided to move the story forward by a year. What stupidity. An absolutely terrible decision!

Part of the joy in of watching a soap is to see how things play out and experience the emotions of the characters. It is a cathartic experience (no matter how contrived the story lines may be). DAYS fans have been robbed of so many experiences because of jumping forward by a year.

How did this happen? Is the decision to move forward by a year is more concerned with the ego?Or the aim of the HEAD WRITER to win an award. Or to try and motivate new people to watch the show? What ever the reason it was the wrong choice.

As a DAYS fan, the reason why I watch is to to observe and participate in fantasy world, full of stereotypes of good and evil, full of flawed characters (who often come good), full of love triangles (where good always wins out, even it if is for just a little while before the next hurdle).

I love the characters near death experiences, and the tearful reunions and memories. I love that the characters who are on death's doorstep fully recover due to some miracle. It doesn't matter if the character doesn't die, because what happens to them creates an emotional release. Yes I cry, and that is OK. We feel their pain and we also feel the joy when the outcome is a good one.

I can't believe the HEAD WRITER got it so wrong. I hope the HEAD WRITER hasn't destroyed our favorite soap opera and it can recover.

Leave DAYS alone. I like it the way it is (or was).

This is a great series. It is captivating and we won't do anything else on Mon, Tues and Wed evenings until it is over. We love the gamesmanship and the humour. At times it is such a crack up and we love the strategies attempted by the contestants.

Anyone who takes this seriously needs to give themselves an upper cut.

David is amazing and a producer's dream. He has the ability to constantly polarise opinion. We love Mr Golden God, as he is the best game player we have ever seen, plus his ability to make fun of himself is to die for. In fact, the whole cast has been great and wonderful to watch.

The only negative thing we could say is that we find the sound really annoying because the background music track gets bumped up so high in the production studio you can't always hear what the contestants are saying.

Frustrating! This film has skilful performances but is let down by a chop chop chop back and forth narrative structure. Despite this the film does has some emotion but could be more powerful if the story built instead of chopping around all the time. It was so annoying, I could not tell which scenes were flashbacks until over half way into it when someone said look for a faint orange tint which means flashbacks. Little Women is one of my favourite stories and if I didn't already know the story I would have no idea what was happening and when it was happening. Many people thought the director was snubbed for an academy award nomination but really this is not a great film and that sounds like the right decision. The director goes out of her way to make the characters look stiff when setting scenes and perfectly framed long shots of buildings and parks. While this might be a good idea to show the repression of the times it is a little overcooked.