11/4 review – The Muse of Vengeance

Overall, I enjoyed this episode and I don’t get to say that too often these days.

First, let’s get the mundane out of the way.

Brady/Arianna – zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…oh, lookee, there’s Roman!...zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…

Now for the improved.

Rafe/Sami – I am by no means a SAFE fan, but I did like the way Rafe just ran into her in the hall, leading to the big romantic clinch. Maybe I’ve become so starved for romance on DAYS now that my resistance is wearing down and my standards are lowering. For a while, the scene even reminded me of one of those classic 80s Kim/Shane scenes. Then SAFE started scrumping on the couch to porn music and flashing skin...and I lost interest again.

Now for the good stuff.

Vivian: Now that we have some real Vivian scenes, I have to say she looks fantabulous…and still as funny and vibrant as ever. But where is Ivan? And who is this Gus punk? Oh, who cares? Come on to Salem, Viv. I’ve got the coffin ready and waiting!

Bo: If I had a nickel for every time I ever heard Bo say, “I’m not going to tell Hope. I don’t want her involved in this. It’s too damned dangerous", I could buy DAYS from SONY and produce the damned soap myself.

Carly vs. Hope: OMG! Forget the Dimera/Kiriakis wars. The real bloodshed’s gonna happen right in the Brady house! Okay, arm these ladies, let them walk ten paces and shoot it out! I’m still trying to figure out what Hope knows about Carly and Bo’s past. Apparently, she knew enough about Carly to know she had recently killed Lawrence Alamain…but didn’t know that Carly and Bo had been engaged. I have to admit the long-suffering BOPE fan in me who had to put up with BARLY in the 90s for so long loooooved to see Hope be a bitch to Carly. It only took 19 years…but finally some payoff! And I was saying to myself “Oh, no, she didn’t!” when Hope threatened to turn both Bo and Carly in. Even so, it looks like Carly won the round of the day as she knows that Bo’s biggest turn-on is to make him feel like he’s a big hero. And she ended up in the arms of the Bearded One for this eppy...so Carly 1, Hope 0 so far.

Justin: His deer-in-the-headlights look when he was in the same room with the battling Hope and Carly had me LMFAO. I think there’s more chemistry with Justin and Carly than Justin and Hope right now.

Bo vs. Hope: Good angsty argument. I still hate how Hope is being written as such a hypocrite and so illogical. She’s blasting Bo for threatening their family by having a criminal in the house when she just moved her daughter into another criminal’s house. I’d enjoy all this much more if Hope’s character wasn’t being thrown under the bus.

Victor – Good scenes with Hope. If Hope really wanted to stick it to Carly, she should have told the Big Greek everything! Then Carly would be toast just like Brianna is right now. That’s okay though. Auntie Viv has a nice big cemetery plot reserved for her...moo haa haahh!!!