Actually, and surprisingly, the show HAS been having characters who don't ordinarily interact together...doing so. Maybe there is not huge umbrella stories with everyone there. But today we had Victor, with Ciara, going to visit Eric, and then Victor talking with Nicole for a bit. We have rarely seen Sami with Justin, and there they were. Hope was talking with Roman. And we even had Kate with Nick, which is rare, and then with Will, even rarer.
Now this doesn't happen every day, but it is refreshing to see those instances. I think Adrienne came to see JJ after he arrived in town, and has visited with Jennifer. Marlena chatting with Hope has not been seen hardly at all in the past.
Now, I agree, I don't like the emphasis on Sami & Ej, I detest Sami living in the DiMera house, truly detest it. She did it so Stefano would help hide that evidence, and now Stefano has it to hold over them all. She betrayed all of her family when she went to live there, and cannot leave as she would want to protect her son.
I thought it rather telling when Sami was talking about poor Mrs. Bernardi, who did not know her husband's secret. Sami doesn't know EJ's, does she?
And I wondered if, when she talked of the widow going home to a closet of his clothes, the empty bed, etc. if she was not thinking how she herself, might have felt if Bernardi had been successful in killing Rafe. (because that is what everyone thinks he was about to do)