Opinion Article
This was quite a week. We had two paternity reveals in one week. We will get into that soon. We also saw a couple of people put others ahead of themselves. We were shocked to see that happen because they have shown how selfish they could be. Someone was put in her place, and we couldnât be happier about that. Without any further delay, we will talk about this weekâs episodes of Days Of Our Lives.
We are disappointed in the writers for what they are doing to Victorâs memory. We understand that John Aniston passed away so they wrote out Victor. We donât have a problem with that. We do have a problem with the fact that his character is being destroyed to boost up the storyline. We found out that Justin isnât Alexâs father. Victor is his father. We read the spoilers so we knew that âplot twistâ was coming, but we werenât happy about when we read it. We donât approve of the fact that Victor betrayed Justin the way he did. We werenât watching Days when Anjelica was on the show, but we are familiar with the fact that she was with Justin. We donât believe that Victor would have hurt Justin by being with her. Maggie and Justin found out the ugly truth while they were reading Victorâs second will. It was a classic soap moment, but the writers have decided to rewrite the soapâs history with this plot point. We donât approve of this twist. We are big fans of twists. Twists give us a chance to be shocked and weâre normally here for them. We just didnât like what they decided to do with this plot twist.
We canât stress enough that Victor wouldnât have done that to him. There was no hint at all that Victor hurt Justin that way. We are watching a show take place in Salem. How did a secret like that stay hidden all these years? We all know that people talk about their secrets in the open all the time. Itâs hard to believe that Victor didnât have one conversation about something that big. The characters talk about the smallest secrets out loud all the time, but he managed to keep this one hidden. He also could have told Maggie this secret. The writers didnât have to butcher Victorâs character again just because heâs no longer with us. Victor was never a saint on the show, but he wouldnât have done that to his favorite nephew. Itâs obvious that the writers wanted to build up Alexâs character so he had to become Victorâs son. We get that the writers love the actor so much they will come up with any way to give him screentime, but this didnât make any sense at all. Itâs a blatant attempt to build up a useless character by giving him a storyline like this one. Speaking of Alex, we will get to him next.
Alex was hit with a huge shock when he found out that Justin isnât his biological father. He had a right to be upset and shocked. His reaction to that was understandable, but he didnât think about the shock that Justin had. He found out that a man he raised wasnât his son. Justin was heartbroken by the news, but he didnât want things to change between them. Alex had to be in his feelings about it and wanted to be alone. Justin tried to assure him that nothing had to change between them, but that didnât matter to Alex. Sonny also showed up to let him know that things didnât have to change and that they were brothers. Alex said that Justin wasnât his father and that he wasnât his brother. We wanted to throw something at the screen while we listened to that garbage. We couldnât believe the way Alex was acting. He was talking to a man who was adopted that Justin wasnât his father anymore. They are still family regardless of which man is his father. We were waiting for Alex to tell Sonny about being adopted. The writers missed a beat by not having Sonny mention that he wasnât biologically related, but still considered Justin his father. Unfortunately, the writers dropped the ball when they missed that beat. We arenât fans of Alexâs character as it is, and this upcoming storyline isnât going to make us root for him. We are hoping that the letter was a forgery, and that Alex isnât really Victorâs son.
It’s time to get to the other paternity reveal. This reveal was more exciting to us than the previous one. We were waiting for this one to be revealed. It was a contrived reveal, but it got the story out so we wonât complain. Chloe heard Rex tell Philip about Sarahâs baby being Xanderâs. Rex was an idiot for talking about something like that outside so anyone could hear it. This man spilled his guts out and told Philip everything about Sarahâs baby and how she still loves Xander. It would make sense to look around before you start talking about something important like that. Anyway, Chloe heard them and could have kept the secret. Chloe went to Xander and told him the truth about Sarahâs baby. We werenât sure if she was going to say anything about it. She knew the risk and told him the truth anyway. We were surprised that she actually did that. She didnât beat around the bush. She told him the truth. Chloe deserves a round of applause for what she did. She knew Xander could have gone running to Sarah as soon as he heard the truth. He wanted to stay with her, but she wouldnât let him do it. She wanted him to find Sarah and be with her. She might have been saving face, but we will give her the applause she deserves for doing the right thing.
Philip also deserves a round of applause this week. He knew the truth about Sarahâs baby and could have used the opportunity to destroy Xander and Chloeâs relationship with it. He could have made a move on her, but he didnât do that. He wanted to make her feel better about it. He put her feelings ahead of his own. He wanted to be a friend to her. We have been Phloe fans so it was nice to see him being a comforting friend instead of scheming to get her back with the information. We do wish that Jay Kenneth Johnston were playing the role when this story unfolded, but weâll take what we can get at this point. We do have a complaint about these two.
Chloe claimed that she wasnât over Philip. We werenât sure what was going on with that. She didnât give Philip a thought since he was gone and now she suddenly had feelings for him. Give us a break. We love Philip and Chloe together, but weâre not buying that she suddenly had feelings for him out of the blue. The writers will have to do better than that. She was just in love with Brady when she fell for Xander so we donât believe that she never got over Philip. She has been with several men while he was gone so we donât believe that she suddenly fell for him again. We want them back together, but we donât want it to be a rebound thing or something rushed. We know weâre not going to get either one so itâs hard to be happy about them possibly getting back together. We would have loved to watch a Phloe reunion, but we know it wonât happen the way we want it to happen.
Letâs shift gears a little and talk about the showdown we were waiting to see. Xander confronted Sarah about keeping the truth about Victoria from him. He rightfully yelled at her for keeping the truth about her from him. She had the gall to try and justify her actions. She kept putting him down as if that excused her behavior. We loved that he didnât back down to her. He called her out for her actions. She was playing judge and jury with their baby. We were cheering him on when he told her that he had the right to know the truth about the baby. He had every right to tell her about herself. She didnât have the right to keep the truth from him. She had a lot of nerve doing that because sheâs not a saint. She threw up his past mistakes in his face. Itâs too bad that he didnât remind her what she did when she kidnapped Rachel. She proved that Xander wasnât the only one who could make mistakes. We donât know why she thought she would win the argument by throwing his mistakes up at him. Sheâs not perfect so she shouldnât have judged him. We donât normally root for Xander, but we had to do it with this story. She was walking around like Miss High and Mighty as if she is without sin. She should have listened to Maggie when she kept driving it home that she tell Xander about Victoria being his daughter. She thought she was right to do it and she paid for it when he went off about it.
It’s time to talk about Gwen. She was acting very different this week. As we all know, Gwen seemed like she was in the dark when it concerned Dimitri and Leo being together. She appeared to believe everything they told her. For some reason, her attitude changed. Now sheâs parading around as if she knew the truth all along. She is being smug towards Leo and bragging about whatâs going on with Dimitri. She also kept doting over Dimitri when she caught them. Itâs funny how easily she caught them together this week when Dimitri had his pants down and she didnât think anything of it. She could blow Dimitri and Leo out of the water by getting away from him. She doesnât gain anything by staying with him. He is making her look like a fool so she could stop him from getting his inheritance and that would be the perfect revenge for her. She works at the newspaper so she would be fine if he lost his inheritance. She could also fire Leo from the paper to pay him back for what he did to her. Itâs just too obvious that she knows the truth now. Dimitri and Leo should know that she knows the truth because sheâs acting different from how she was before.
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