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Days of Our Lives
Wednesday, December 20, 2017
Oh, wow! Such a well written and acted episode, can’t miss. JJ is in the square, caroling is going on, he stops to donate to a bell ringer, returns to his room. He takes a pad of paper, box of envelopes out of the bag (he purchased them in the square) and begins to write a letter. It is to Theo, and starts, I can’t begin to tell you how sorry………but he scratches it out, crumples up the paper, throws it away, this cannot be about me. His phone rings, he sees it is his mother, turns it off. Returns to the desk, and writes to her. And as he writes, he has flashback to a time with his dad……he writes letters to various people, all accompanied by memory flashbacks, but are newly created. Each one has a month and year identifying the time period.
He tells his mom how he failed her, left school, came home, she wasn’t there, but dad was. How dad claimed he, too, was thrown out of a lot of schools, until he finally put his mind to making the grade. He does a “faith in you” talk with JJ, pays for a ticket back to school, and mom will never know. He gifts him with a pen his father gave him after he succeeded, but wants JJ to have it, maybe inspire him. JJ encloses it the letter to Jennifer, seals the envelope.
I cannot do this episode justice, it is just so well done, has so many facets.
He takes a shower, shaves, remembers how Dad taught him to shave, using old school razor, which he still uses, how mom taught him to drive, and Abby taught him to fight. He remembers at one point, Jen, Abby & him sitting in the living room, talking of Jack dying, having saved Abby, and none can tell him goodbye. He remembers swallowing a pill (guess he was taking drugs then) and ends up giving Abby the last razor blade (packaged) to teach Thomas how to shave, as he won’t be able to do so.
He writes to Gabi, talking of Paige, Gabi never knowing her, and giving her a thumb drive of songs Paige wrote, sang, for him. To Abe he writes of Abe being the one encouraging him to get on the force to begin with, gives him his badge, saying Abe was angry when JJ got it back, he was right, so here it is.
Hope gets a letter, and the bravery pin awarded to JJ, she always had faith in him, and encouraged him.
To Lani he is sorry he could not give her the birthday present, after what happened that day, (Theo being shot), he got tickets to Rihanna concert, looked forward to it, and to things they could do in Chicago. He does love her, he meant it.
All of the flashback “memories” are in black & white, except the last two, which are in color, and seem to be fantasy ones. He also, inbetween the letter writing, has showered, shaved, put on his dress uniform.
Theo gets the last letter, wherein JJ once again apologizes, saying Theo had so many dreams for the future, and now has no future, all due to JJ, who has given his things to others, has nothing to give Theo, except his life. So he will go to the square, to where JJ shot Theo, and pay for Theo’s life with his own.
JJ had already taken out his gun, now takes out the magazine, snaps it into place. He stands, holding the gun staring straight ahead.
And on screen comes the number for the suicide hot line. Then the credits.
Wednesday, December 20, 2017
Oh, wow! Such a well written and acted episode, can’t miss. JJ is in the square, caroling is going on, he stops to donate to a bell ringer, returns to his room. He takes a pad of paper, box of envelopes out of the bag (he purchased them in the square) and begins to write a letter. It is to Theo, and starts, I can’t begin to tell you how sorry………but he scratches it out, crumples up the paper, throws it away, this cannot be about me. His phone rings, he sees it is his mother, turns it off. Returns to the desk, and writes to her. And as he writes, he has flashback to a time with his dad……he writes letters to various people, all accompanied by memory flashbacks, but are newly created. Each one has a month and year identifying the time period.
He tells his mom how he failed her, left school, came home, she wasn’t there, but dad was. How dad claimed he, too, was thrown out of a lot of schools, until he finally put his mind to making the grade. He does a “faith in you” talk with JJ, pays for a ticket back to school, and mom will never know. He gifts him with a pen his father gave him after he succeeded, but wants JJ to have it, maybe inspire him. JJ encloses it the letter to Jennifer, seals the envelope.
I cannot do this episode justice, it is just so well done, has so many facets.
He takes a shower, shaves, remembers how Dad taught him to shave, using old school razor, which he still uses, how mom taught him to drive, and Abby taught him to fight. He remembers at one point, Jen, Abby & him sitting in the living room, talking of Jack dying, having saved Abby, and none can tell him goodbye. He remembers swallowing a pill (guess he was taking drugs then) and ends up giving Abby the last razor blade (packaged) to teach Thomas how to shave, as he won’t be able to do so.
He writes to Gabi, talking of Paige, Gabi never knowing her, and giving her a thumb drive of songs Paige wrote, sang, for him. To Abe he writes of Abe being the one encouraging him to get on the force to begin with, gives him his badge, saying Abe was angry when JJ got it back, he was right, so here it is.
Hope gets a letter, and the bravery pin awarded to JJ, she always had faith in him, and encouraged him.
To Lani he is sorry he could not give her the birthday present, after what happened that day, (Theo being shot), he got tickets to Rihanna concert, looked forward to it, and to things they could do in Chicago. He does love her, he meant it.
All of the flashback “memories” are in black & white, except the last two, which are in color, and seem to be fantasy ones. He also, inbetween the letter writing, has showered, shaved, put on his dress uniform.
Theo gets the last letter, wherein JJ once again apologizes, saying Theo had so many dreams for the future, and now has no future, all due to JJ, who has given his things to others, has nothing to give Theo, except his life. So he will go to the square, to where JJ shot Theo, and pay for Theo’s life with his own.
JJ had already taken out his gun, now takes out the magazine, snaps it into place. He stands, holding the gun staring straight ahead.
And on screen comes the number for the suicide hot line. Then the credits.
But I want Jack alive and returning to his family. Well, a box of Kleenex will be close by when I watch the show. If everyone else can survive death on this show, why not Jack?
