u/Motor-Thought1902

I love these two together. They have real chemistry. I’m glad they broke Shawn and Belle up. They really were painful to watch.

I thought the writers did really smart things today with each pairing.

Abe is now in the position of having two wives he loves very much - in the same way Marlena had two husbands she loved very much when Roman returned from the dead.

And Alex is in the same position Steve was in when he found out Tripp was his son.

It was great to see Marlena share her experience with Paulina and Steve share his experience with Alex - people who actually understood. And I loved how Steve embraced Alex’s child and welcomed her to their family.

I thought Friday’s episode was amazing. It was already exciting before Gabi came in. And then Lexie showing up was a double escalation of the will reading. I was transfixed by Monday’s episode as well. I wish Abe hadn’t had to see Lexie first in the middle of a group of people, but at least she woke up alone with him and recognized him. I think the show has planted a lot of seeds and they are finally bearing fruit.

I wrote a short piece in my newsletter today about Ari (who I don’t think has chemistry with Liam). They had to pair her with someone outside the core families, because her biological father is a Brady and a Horton, her other father is a Kiriakis, and her mother is a Hernandez who is still technically married to a Dimera. So she pretty much has nowhere to turn romantically in Salem.

I’m also sharing the link to sign up for my newsletter again because I spent a day with photoshop making a better image. I got flamed by someone on here because AI made the characters look too different. So I reconstructed on my own and used AI to touch up, because hey, I’m not a designer and 8 hours with Photoshop was about all I could take.

I would be extremely grateful if you would check it out and subscribe and spread the word. I’ve been watching for almost 50 years and it feels great to be able to draw on all those years of knowledge.

Here’s the link:

www.thesalemdispatch.com

Looking forward to all the Lexie fallout. And my money is on Sophia not only being alive, but coming back soon. Her father has been cast, after all!