Days Opinions For The Week Of September 22, 2025

Opinion Article

Sophia has gone crazy over a child she didn’t want. She stormed into Melinda’s office ranting because Johnny and Chanel wanted to adopt Tesoro. Sophia didn’t want them to adopt her baby. She wanted them to adopt the baby before, but she changed her mind. Sophia wanted to do anything to stop them from taking her baby. We’re on the fence about how we feel about the way the story is being written. The writers don’t want to make Sophia sympathetic. She never feels torn about giving up her baby. Sophia didn’t want him to be around her so she wouldn’t get caught for what you did. On the other hand, Sophia got her hopes up when she thought Johnny and Chanel were going to take her baby, but he changed his mind. She had the right to be mad because he promised to take the baby while she was pregnant with him and changed his mind. Johnny expected to get the kid just because he and Chanel feel ready to adopt again. We like how there’s some drama involved in their storyline, but it requires suspension of belief to watch it. Sophia had to take on the villain role to make the story more interesting. If everything worked out, we would be bored beyond belief. The drawback to the story is that we must endure watching Holly and Tate more. No offense to the actors, but they don’t do enough to make the story worth watching. Sophia was willing to destroy Holly and Johnny to get what she wanted.

As we said, we are torn about the story with Sophia, Tate, and Holly. Why was it so easy for Sophia to hear and see everything she wanted without anyone suspecting anything? Sophia conveniently overheard Johnny talking to Holly, and it gave her the idea to write to children’s services to let them know that Johnny wasn’t a fit parent. She also knew when to arrive in Holly’s room to spike her drink and take seductive pictures of her. Sophia keeps getting away with the things that she’s done. She’s also a weak actress so watching her try to pull off the type of character she’s become is a challenge. The actress isn’t strong enough to pull off the vixen role. She needs more work with the acting coach to get meaty stories like this one. The acting coach might be able to help her downplay her acting so she wouldn’t be over-the-top.

What message do the writers want to send to the audience? Do they want us to think it’s okay to hit someone that you are dating? It seems like that’s what the writers want when it comes to Holly and Tate. Holly thought Tate cheated on her with Sophia, so she punched him. We were shocked to see that happen. The head writers are women, and they allowed domestic violence to happen on their watch. If the shoe were on the other foot, Tate would have been a monster for hitting her. It’s not okay that she chose violence instead of her words. Holly carried on with her life as if she didn’t hit Tate. It would have meant more if Holly said anything about what she did to Tate. She acted like she was right to do it. We don’t agree with that at all. She was completely wrong to hit her boyfriend. He needs to walk away from her for good.

The Kiriakis family had to accept defeat when Tony got the best of them. Tony demanded that they give up Titan/DiMera, or he would destroy the family. The Kiriakis family had a meeting to discuss what their options were. They ended up arguing until Maggie arrived. She gave them a pep talk to motivate them Maggie and Tony had a scene together. It was nice to see legends working together. Tony called Maggie out for thinking it was okay for her family to take his family’s company, but he was supposed to let them have Titan when they took his family’s company without hesitation.

There was a blackout in Salem for no reason. It would have been nice if the blackout helped tie up storylines. Unfortunately, nothing was resolved during the start of the blackout. Blackouts usually happen when forbidden romances are brewing, or the wrong people get together. Xander and Sarah were the only couple to have movement in their story during the blackout. They finally realized that they should apologize to each other for the way they treated each other. Xander and Sarah should have made up before. The reunion is jaded because Sarah wanted to make things right with him because she thought he didn’t attack Philip. She will dump him again when the truth comes out.