Essentially, this is... a recap of recaps

[cleolinda]

Today's The Month What My Journal Was Born In flashback: I learned my recappin' in a hard school, y'all. For about three months, I wrote daily Days of Our Lives recaps. And then, between my class schedule changing and the show being on every weekday, I burnt out. BUT THE LESSONS I LEARNED STAYED WITH ME FOREVER. And as soon as I figure out what those lessons were, I'll let you know.

So what I ended up doing this morning was going back and tagging those entries so that you can get them all together (start at the bottom here and move up). Quick excerpts, if you'd like to see what my recapping style was like four years ago:

http://cleolinda.livejournal.com/64769.html
OH MY GOD MARLENA ACTUALLY FELL 500 STORIES BOUNCED OFF A CANOPY AND LANDED ON HER OWN DAUGHTER THIS IS THE MOST AWESOME SHOW IN THE HISTORY OF EVER.

http://cleolinda.livejournal.com/101234.html
Chez Crazy. Shawn [who is chained up in the Love Cage] snips at Crazy Jan to stop it and get off him. He insists that Belle is the only woman he has ever loved and that she did not "brainwash" him. This is not good. Crazy Jan bitches at some kewpie voodoo doll that the doll promised her it would go better than this. Kewpie Voodoo Doll advises her to be patient. I am so not making this up, I can't even tell you. Crazy Jan tells Shawn that she's gonna have to break out the tough love. Shawn's all like, whatever. She returns to the Kewpie Voodoo Doll ("You can do it, Jan!"). She jumps on Shawn again and promises that she has big surprises for him.

http://cleolinda.livejournal.com/102106.html
Chez Crazy. Shawn: "I AM BEING HELD AGAINST MY WILL! PLEASE SEND THE COPS!" Nicole [on phone with Crazy Jan]: "Girl, I gotta hand it to you. You are nuttier than a fruitcake, but you get the job done." Shawn, in the background: "SHE IS HOLDING ME CAPTIVE! PLEASE CALL THE SALEM POLICE DEPARTMENT!" Really, we're on a totally different scene now and I'm still capping this one because I'm crying [with laughter] so hard.

http://cleolinda.livejournal.com/105362.html
John asks Mr. Mephistopheles if it's at all possible that Marlena is alive. Lexie points out that she declared Marlena dead; Marlena was shot through the heart; John held her as she died; and Mr. Mephistopheles adds that HE EMBALMED HER, THANK YOU, CAN WE BURY HER NOW? Marlena: *gasp sigh flop.* Marlena, she not ded yet. Still. Commercials.

Chez Crazy. Jan comes out in a spifforama new outfit for the bank. Nicole: "You realize that if you marry Shawn, you'll be... Jan Brady. Which somehow... would be... so fitting." Jan: "Who's Jan Brady?" Nicole: "Never mind." I may or may not be able to recap the rest of this scene, as now I ded from laughter.

http://cleolinda.livejournal.com/107292.html
House of Bitch. Sami doesn't want to go out to dinner, has right to grieve, leave her alone, etc. Lucas: WOMAN, JUST GO TO THE OLIVE GARDEN WITH ME. Lucas threatens to call his mom and hang out with her instead. Ew, Lucas. Don't blackmail women into going out with you by using your mom, dude.

http://cleolinda.livejournal.com/108369.html
Bizarro Alice's House. Abe worries that Lexie will find someone else and move on--particularly since he told her to. If I get married, and something happens to my husband, I will never be able to see other men because I will always be worried that he's trapped in a tropical Bizarro Birmingham somewhere. Woe.

http://cleolinda.livejournal.com/110084.html
Love Cage. Crazy Jan crazies. My mother, wisely: "See, he needs to fake like he loves her." Me: "Mom... he's been doing that for, like, two weeks now." Shawn: "I want to hold you in my arms. I want to give you the love you deserve." Me: "I told you." Crazy Jan: "...This is an act, ISN'T IT?" Mom: "Two weeks, huh?" Commercials.


I never did find out how the Bizarro Salem or the Love Cage storylines ended up, by the way.

Comments

[sturmclan.livejournal.com]

My God. I wish you'd been around to recap DOOL back when I used to watch it. Back in the days of John's a priest and Marlena's possessed by Satan and LEVITATED OVER THE BED, OMG, Carrie & Sami fighting over Austin, Bo & Billie doin' the nasty all over Salem before Hope/notHope came back and one minute she WAS Hope, but the next minute she WASN'T Hope. Or way, way, way back in the day when Bo & Hope went to New Orleans to profess their trueloveomg and dressed in old fashioned plantation clothes outside Oak Alley.
Or the whole Stefano/Kristin/John/Susan (actress playing Kristen with bad teeth, glasses and a frizzy wig) thing with Crazy!Susan getting pregnant and giving birth to Elvis. (Who's now EJ, I think???)

So.....Marlena's a zombie now? Guess Dierdre Hall has given up all pretense of being a good, serious actress. Dear Heavenly GOD.

[greedyskunk.livejournal.com]

Lol! Yeah, this was about my era of the DOOL-watching.

Have you ever noticed how Marlena's expression never changes? My mom and I would (and still do sometimes) randomly turn to each other with a blank, wide-eyed stare and declare we were sad or excited or angry or any other kind of emotion. This was the "Marlena Evans School of Acting."

And on a side note, how sad is it that I'm inwardly happy that Sami and Lucas are an on again/off again couple? I so wanted them to get together back in the day, but I don't think I ever saw that.