That Kristen is just mean, mean, mean.
Every time I watch Susan, I can't help but wear a gigantic grin across my face. Eileen Davidson does such a fantastic job transforming herself into this character. I'm so glad she was able to dust her off and flawlessly re-capture Susan after all these years. And for once the fans agree with me!
All 2000 of them.
It's been a really long time since I've gone back and RE-WATCHED scenes on Days. Who knew it would take Susan to get me there. I do feel like Days is taking a BIT of a step in the right direction lately. It might just be that whenever Kristen is around, she invigorates the show, but I do feel like things in Salem are becoming more interwoven, and more interesting.
I tell you what I'm still not into though...The Ridgeways. They really need to let this branch of the show DIE, already...and take Rafe with them. I feel bad for hating Rafe so much, but I can't help it. He's so awful! Seeing him with Kate KIND of redeemed him because that relationship was a little screwed up. Sleeping with Kate the first time made Rafe seem a little less heroic and a little more bad boy. But now he's back to being all cookie cutter with Jordan...until he cheated on her. You'd think I'd actually enjoy that turn of events, but no, it just made Rafe even more despicable. That's such a huge fuck up and it was SO easy for him to roll right back into bed with Kate. I really can't see him and Jordan coming back from that ultimate fuck-up...but you KNOW the writers will try to get them back together. In my eyes, it's too late. That relationship is tarnished and imperfect. I'm no longer rooting for Rafe and Jordan (not that I ever really was.), but Days doesn't seem to get that. It might be realistic for Jordan to take Rafe back after such a screw up, and maybe that's what they're going for--realism--but this is fiction, Days! On the most ridiculous level! The heroes are supposed to have much more inspiring morals.
I feel like Days is too steeped in this "realness" and is afraid of going at all "fantastical" or "adventurous" anymore. Maybe that's because of their shitty budget, but I think they could still pull off some fun storylines despite it. Bringing Susan back in was a step in the right direction. She's over-the-top and wacky...something Days is sorely lacking. When Susan brought up premonitions and Celeste, it brought back memories of the Good Old Days, when out-of-the-ordinary was actually quite ordinary in Salem--for EVERYONE, not just Kristen.
