JasonDíSpeech
Well-Known Member
I thought we could have a "Weekend Discussion Thread" where we suggest a small change to a story that could/would have had lasting impact in Salem.
I'll start with the idea that bore this topic: Jeannie T's exit. (I refuse to use her fake name, now or ever, LOL.)
I feel it would have been better if she had been killed during the siege. No ambiguity with Brady, no spewing hate from him. No thinking she doesn't love Tate.
As the fiancée of John Black and Marlena's son, and Victor's grandson, he should have been Target #1 for Milo Harp/Orpheus. Orpheus tries to get him, Jeannie T intercepts and sacrifices herself, and is his prisoner instead. During a rescue attempt, we see Jeannie T trying to escape, she's shot, falls to the ground. The stronghold (on screen it was a warehouse) explodes during the rescue attempt. Harp is apprehended, and Jeannie T's body is found, identified (though badly burned) by her engagement ring, jewelry, and (for us viewers) the bullet wound.
Admittedly it doesn't change as much of what we've seen now, but I suspect Brady is not long for the single world, and that the reason Jeannie's exit was written as it was was to make it easier for him to fall onto another hot young chick. But this would not be so easy and would provide more emotional impact in future stories than what I suspect we are going to see.
And, of course, there's just enough wiggle room there to say Jeannie T somehow crawled out, bleeding, lost her memory, etc. etc., just in case we ever find a need for it. :wink: No good soap writer writes a "final" exit for a legacy character with a career like Ms Lilley's.
I would also have accepted Orpheus blowing up on a plane over an ocean with Jeannie T hostage, à la Marlena circa (1987?) the 1980s. But hey, I write for the budget the show has. LOL
I'll start with the idea that bore this topic: Jeannie T's exit. (I refuse to use her fake name, now or ever, LOL.)
I feel it would have been better if she had been killed during the siege. No ambiguity with Brady, no spewing hate from him. No thinking she doesn't love Tate.
As the fiancée of John Black and Marlena's son, and Victor's grandson, he should have been Target #1 for Milo Harp/Orpheus. Orpheus tries to get him, Jeannie T intercepts and sacrifices herself, and is his prisoner instead. During a rescue attempt, we see Jeannie T trying to escape, she's shot, falls to the ground. The stronghold (on screen it was a warehouse) explodes during the rescue attempt. Harp is apprehended, and Jeannie T's body is found, identified (though badly burned) by her engagement ring, jewelry, and (for us viewers) the bullet wound.
Admittedly it doesn't change as much of what we've seen now, but I suspect Brady is not long for the single world, and that the reason Jeannie's exit was written as it was was to make it easier for him to fall onto another hot young chick. But this would not be so easy and would provide more emotional impact in future stories than what I suspect we are going to see.
And, of course, there's just enough wiggle room there to say Jeannie T somehow crawled out, bleeding, lost her memory, etc. etc., just in case we ever find a need for it. :wink: No good soap writer writes a "final" exit for a legacy character with a career like Ms Lilley's.
I would also have accepted Orpheus blowing up on a plane over an ocean with Jeannie T hostage, à la Marlena circa (1987?) the 1980s. But hey, I write for the budget the show has. LOL