Okay, don't act like we're the only ones who've noticed the highly-inappropriate, yet insanely-hot chemistry between closeted gay coed Will Horton (Chandler Massey) and his former stepfather EJ DiMera (James Scott) on Days of Our Lives! Ever since EJ flipped the script on Will—who tried to blackmail the dastardly DiMera about his recent romp with Will's mama dearest Sami (Alison Sweeney), by revealing that he knew it was Will, not Lucas (Bryan Datillo), who shot him all those years ago— we've been treated to scenes between Will and his new "Master" that threaten to burn up our LED screens.
With hit primetime soaps like ABC's Revenge offering up delicious, omnisexual villains like the unstable Tyler (Ashton Holmes) and envelope-pushing cable sudsers like Shameless providing raunchy, dugout sex between a pair of gay teens, we can't help but wonder if DAYS and other soaps wouldn't benefit from broadening their sexual horizons?
We're not talking about the garden variety, preachy "coming out" storyline that seems to piss off Middle America so much, but instead a good, old-fashioned tail, er tale of blackmail, sex and seduction — only with same sex lovers and schemers. The Young and the Restless tried it a few years back with the character of Adam Newman (Michael Muhney), but ultimately chickened out. If soaps are gonna start competing with the antics of The Jersey Shore and all those cable TV "housewives," something has got to give.
Just imagine Sami reacting to the bombshell revelation that the man she loathes to love has seduced her first born son? Or, maybe it's Will who does the seducing? What do you guys think?
Should Days of Our Lives go there with Will and EJ?
Comments
16 October 2008
12 hours 15 min
I'd love to see Will seduce either EJ or Rafe to get back at Mommie Dearest Sami! Now THAT'S a soap plot!
5 July 2008
1 hour 26 min
Nah Days Id rather Will Just accept himself and maybe Date Tyler Or Sonny
5 February 2009
2 hours 31 min
The episode where EJ and Will get their swerve on would send ratings higher than ever before!
#imsoonboard
3 July 2008
1 hour 31 min
I'm sorry and kind of ashamed to say this ... but boy, these two are HOT!!!! Their chemistry is awesome. What a scandal that would be. Seeing Sami and Lucas' faces ... oh dear. LOL
8 May 2008
4 weeks 5 days
Yeah. Days should do it, it will be better if Days did it that way than the same, boring gay s/l that soaps have been doing for the past decades, spice it up, I would love to see something different than the same stale s/l. jmo. Ej and Will have great chemistry together, why not use it to their advantage???
8 May 2008
4 weeks 5 days
Yes, soapjunkie, I would love it also and they have great love/hate chemistry and days needs all the buzz it can get, soaps are not being around and they need all the excitement and buzz it can get.
6 December 2009
11 hours 30 min
I would love it DOOL would go there, Marknsprmo & I have been discussing this for a couple of weeks now through emails. We noticed the CHEMISTRY between these two actors popping off the screen. EJ is always touching, winking, and the lines the writers are using for this dialogue is brilliant. Are they writing this purposely or just how James Scott is delivering the scenes? When EJ is talking to William (EJ doesn't call him Will) it has a sexual overtone...or is it me and wishful thinking? EJ, dark, tall, handsome European could possibly have bi tendencies and why not? Look at the press buzz this would generate for DOOL alone! What I would like if EJ & William have May-December affair, soaps have done this type of story since soaps started with str8 couples older male\female, (Rachel\Mac, Victor\Nikki), but the catch would be the viewers know but citizens of Salem have no idea of the relationship. Then leave it at that and don't let it be scandal and Salem never knows until 5-10 years from now as Bill Bell did with Dru, that s\l lingered for a decade. I still want Will to meet his true love in younger character but EJ will always have a deep caring and respectful side toward William. What people of Salem can't figure out why.....
12 February 2010
4 hours 53 min
I'm getting hot and bothered just thinking about it...
30 August 2009
4 weeks 5 days
I will admit that I never thought about the two of them together. But watching their scenes over the past week or two have really opened my eyes, and set my pulse a-racin'!!! I sincerely believe that James Scott and Chandler Massey have picked up on it, and are deliberately playing it up. And they are brilliant for it. The only problem is how will Kristian Alfonson react if such a storyline would progress....
16 October 2008
12 hours 15 min
Why would Kristian Alfonso (Hope) act any particular way to such a storyline?????
6 December 2009
11 hours 30 min
Me too, not sure why she would care? Not trying to be an idiot please fill me in about the situation. Is it a religious thing?
3 February 2009
1 week 4 days
How old is Will and how old is EJ? Sorry, but this breaks from the character of EJ. I like sexually ambiguous characters, but EJ is not one of them. Can't compare to Adam for two reasons: 1) the Adam character was relatively new to the Y&R landscape as an adult; 2) Rafe was fairly close to his age; and 3) it was clear that he was doing it for non-sexual reasons. (There was NEVER any sexual attraction by Adam to Rafe.) Trust me, I'd love to see Adam in some hot man-on-man action, but it's all fantasy.
18 September 2009
6 days 9 hours
First Rafe and now EJ. Jamey, you want Will to be Salem's new man whore don't you? LOL. But I am all for it. That last scene when there were together on the sofas grinning yesterday made me see that there was something more there. Oh how juicy would it be if Will got his mother back by sleeping with EJ!!! All I have to say is get that back broke, Will!!
17 January 2012
5 weeks 1 day
Your article and article title seem to imply that a homosexual coupling of a younger man / older man should somehow be seen as more lurid or frowned upon than that of a younger woman / older man, or even the reverse. When the truth is, soaps have been doing May/December affairs for decades - and even affairs between step-relations in one family. So what do you mean by "should DAYS go there?" You mean, should DAYS treat gays and straights equally? Gasp. Tough to grasp, huh?
22 January 2008
4 hours 43 min
Please do not use the comments section to spread unsubstantiated rumors about actors. Any posts alleging vicious gossip about Kristian Alfonso or any other actors will be deleted.
15 January 2009
8 hours 17 min
@Michael886: With statements like the one you made I would just scrap the whole gay storyline. You know why? Because if you are going to comb every article, blog posting and piece related to idealizing a potential story goldmine to find something negative about it, then you are cutting your nose off to spite your face. And who wants to deal with that?
9 February 2009
15 hours 15 min
thanks jamey for the article..id love this storyline..and hope DOOL writers don't 'pull out'...no pun intended. it would be amazing. i for oneam bored and tired of the coming out storylines teens get on TV..snooze button alert. there have been enough already. it's time to progress, make Will the villain he could be and hook him up with EJ. for the record, i hated the EJ character since day one, since he was sorased sooo much.. but now i'm loving how james scott is delivering those lines!! ( the future bond, james bond!!)
22 April 2008
4 weeks 5 days
Jamey,
You wrote, "With hit primetime soaps like ABC's Revenge offering up delicious, omnisexual villains like the unstable Tyler (Ashton Holmes) and envelope-pushing cable sudsers like Shameless providing raunchy, dug out sex between a pair of gay teens, we can't help but wonder if DAYS and other soaps wouldn't benefit from broadening their sexual horizons?"
Please -- dugout should be one compound word (or at least hyphenated), otherwise your sentence has a meaning totally different from what I think you intended, lol.
--Bob
22 January 2011
1 hour 42 min
I am having such fun watching will's storyline play out. And as I said in the forum, the scenes between these two are scorchingly hot.
22 January 2008
4 hours 43 min
@Bob, I thought I had dugout together! LOL Thanks for the head's up. #FreudianSlip
1 April 2008
5 days 7 hours
You know, when I first read the sentence you pointed out, Bob, it made me stop to think about it for a second to figure out what Jamey meant. I figured he was saying that two guys did it in a dugout, as in baseball, like Jennifer Jason Leigh and that hot stereo salesman in "Fast Times at Ridgemont High." But I hope he leaves it as it. . . with all the dirty (literally and figuratively) connotations.
27 December 2007
12 hours 15 min
Wow then this storyline would be like a Gordon Merrick novel..
4 May 2009
1 hour 27 min
I would love it!
13 December 2009
4 hours 35 min
I dont believe for a second DOOL will go there and its a shame because while I find DOOL boring these days, this dynamic is just too hot to pass up. There is no reason that ej can't be a sexually ambiguous character and him seducing will or how about will seducing him plays into IMO the one and only interesting dynamic on this show. Kalinda on The Good wife is IMO the most fascinating female on PT tv these days and her sexuality is a key part of who she is and *gasp love scenes between she and other women and she and other men. Remember its this dumbass show that has also failed to capitalize on the chemistry with will and chad also.
15 January 2009
8 hours 17 min
With the EJ and Will storyline here I see a bit of the Anakin Skywalker/Chancellor Palatine aka The Emperor thing going on here from Star Wars Episode 3. Anakin was drawn to the darkside and Will is being drawn to the Dimera side.
10 December 2009
10 hours 2 min
I am not for gay storylines and I never ever would have thought that EJ and Will would be considered. I am 2 months behind so I need to catch up to see whats going down. SOunds good. I much rather see EJ/Will than EJ/Sonny snooze. No idea who Tyler even is.
On that note I just do not see this happening at all.
But yes imagine Marlena Sami Lucas and Rafe's reaction among many others!
I bet anything though that if EJ and Will had sex moronic Ejami fans would still be hoping for a reunion after that.
Sami would be certifiably insane if the guy who raped her, the guy she shot in the head and then the guy who had sex with her son and yet she still got back together with him.
17 June 2009
2 hours 5 min
EJ and Will have amazing & inappropriate chemistry!
they could be the Doug & Julie of the 21st century!
this vid says it all.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-225rImkd4
1 July 2008
7 hours 39 min
Yes, the chemistry between EJ and William is scorching HOT. But the best scenario for this storyline is one as old as time on soap operas - and sometimes in real life, too. Will hates EJ because of who he is (a DiMera) and what he has done (slept with Sami, disrespecting Rafe, flipping the script on Will and blackmailing him into doing his bidding, being EJ, etc.) However, as he begins to work even closer with EJ, he begins to have an attraction to EJ that is undeniable for him. Will fights the attraction hard and EJ's orders even harder because he is conflicted about his sexuality and the good and evil (mostly evil) of working for EJ. EJ notices William's turmoil (just the way he noticed William's uncomfortabilty with his sexuality around others) and uses it to his dastardly advantage. A longing glance here, a lingering touch there, even a kiss, perhaps. And lots of EJ parading around in front of William in various states of undress.
But never "officially" crossing the line into physical (bedroom) sexual territory. (Because, you see, EJ is not gay; but he is not above exploiting the feelings of an impressionable, young gay man to further his cause.) Until, of course, it all blows up in their face when it all is seemingly outed on EJ's Mayoral Inauguration Day. The revelation would make Will hate EJ more than ever (or does he) and make the citizens of Salem hate EJ even more than they thought possible. The ramifications of which could propel story for YEARS. And could have the kind of psychological effect on Will that renders him a flawed human being who just so happens to be gay. (Instead of the often-times saccharin sweet gays or coming out story that we are used to getting. Which is why I LOVED Oliver and Kyle so much on One Life To Live - they were well-defined characters first and gay second. Boy, am I missing OLTL today!)
Anyway, it would be a great story that would give half of DOOL's canvas so much great story.
27 July 2011
1 week 3 days
AMEN!
27 July 2011
1 week 3 days
I liked the first way better!