NO, NO, NO THEY CAN’T KILL BO!!!

I admit it.  I am a Days of Our Lives junkie.  It’s my guilty pleasure.  A mindless escape from reality.  My way relax and reset at the end of the day.  While my “Days” obsession has ebbed and waned over the years, it’s been in full force recently as new writers took over and returned Days to the old Days, bringing back old favorites such as Bo, Steve a/k/a “Patch” and Shawn Douglas and reuniting the super-couples of “Bo and Hope” and “Steve and Kayla”.  I don’t know about my fellow resident Days junkie (AHEM . . .Corey Pietranton), but if the current story line that is setting Bo up to die of a brain tumor isn’t just a publicity stunt to increase ratings (and it is garnering huge publicity and ratings), I may just be done with Days once and for all. 

There can be no Days for me without “Bo and Hope”.  They are what got me hooked and why I always end up going back when I’ve taken a “Days break”.   I was in sixth or seventh grade when I really became hooked on Days.  That year at our end of the year school picnic someone (not sure who or why) hooked up an old TV in the shelter to watch Days because it was going to be a “can’t miss” episode.  Although I don’t remember the specific episode, I know it involved Bo and Hope.  I’m thinking it was part of the storyline where he rescued her from her wedding to the evil Larry and they escaped on the back of his motorcycle.  Regardless, for a bunch of girls in their pre- to early-teens, it was the ultimate in romance.  My Days obsession started that summer.  At 1 p.m. every day, no matter what we were doing, my friends and I gathered in front of the TV at someone’s house to watch Days.  Once school started again in the fall, our Days watching was limited to sick days and holidays; but, as someone recently commented, it’s never hard to pick back up on Days characters and storylines even if you haven’t watched it in years.

I’ve stopped watching Days many times over the years.  Hope dropped in a vat of acid and presumed dead.  Done.  But I came back.  When Marlena was possessed and turned into a demon.  Done.  But I came back.  “Alien” children arriving in Salem in a pod.  Done.  But I came back.   A bunch of supposedly dead characters coming back after being held captive on an island. Done.  But I came back.  Years may have passed, but eventually I always came back.  Usually, all that would have to happen is for me to turn Days when I had the rare day off from work and find a storyline involving Bo and Hope, Jack and Jennifer (before they killed Jack yet again) or Sami and whomever she maybe with at that time.  Once I saw these characters back on the screen, I would just have to see what happens and start recording it again.  Other characters may come and go and I could care less.  These core characters, however, would always suck me back in. 

It may all be over now for good if the current Bo dying of a brain tumor storyline plays out and they actually kill off Bo.  Days’ executive producer recently announced that any character killed after November 1 would be dead for good without a potential for an eventual resurrection from the dead through a kidnapping or amnesia storyline or some other bizarre reason for being “presumed dead”.  I’m sorry, but you just can’t reunite Bo and Hope for a few weeks only to kill Bo forever.  Bo and Hope were the reason I started watching Days.  Bo and Hope are what kept bringing me back.  I can’t speak for my fellow Days’ junkie (AHEM…Corey), but without the possibility of Bo and Hope, my Day’s days just may be over and I will be looking for a new mindless, guilty pleasure.

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