Days of Our Lives’ Allie and Tripp: Why It’s a Big No… for Now

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In the blink of an eye, Tripp has gone from Allie’s possible rapist to her love interest.

If anyone deserves happiness on soaps right now it’s Days of Our Lives’ Allie. Since she returned both SORASed and pregnant last June, it’s been one heartache after another. Even her portrayer, Lindsay Arnold, is ready for a change of pace. But pairing the character with Tripp is not the right direction for young Allie.

At least, not yet.

Since the day they reunited in Salem, Allie has accused Tripp of rape. The ensuing months consisted of her trying to have him arrested and him calling her a liar.

Of course, he wasn’t the culprit. Allie eventually remembered that it was actually Tripp’s half-brother Charlie who attacked her, not Steve and Ava’s son.

Allie and Tripp share a light moment on Days of Our Lives

That’s great news for Tripp as a character. He is now free to find unproblematic love with someone viewers care about on the canvas. And based on the way Allie was looking at Tripp when he held baby Henry in Monday’s episode, it looks like she might be seeing him in a whole new light.

But should she be?

Allie has known that she was wrong about Tripp doing one of the worst things a man can do to a woman for all of five minutes. Given that she’s been thinking of him as her rapist for months, shouldn’t it take more than his name being cleared and her seeing him holding a baby to make her heart flutter?

As for Tripp, Allie told anyone who would listen that he was a rapist. He might be able to understand and even forgive her given the circumstances. But intentionally or not, Allie did do everything in her power to make his life a living hell. Even a saint might have a tough time suddenly seeing her as girlfriend material.

Allie happy on Days of Our Lives

They could be a good romance to invest in, but it’s a story that should take time to develop. The audience needs to go along on the journey as Tripp and Allie slowly navigate the landmines which would naturally arise from the events they’ve gone through over the past year or so.

As Billy Flynn recently told Soaps.com, it would be nice if Days was given the time to really invest in stories. To take their time telling them. This is one story that could definitely benefit from that.

What do you think? Can you make the leap to Tripp and Allie as a potential couple so quickly after their recent troubles? Or do you think Days should wait on this pairing? Look through our photo gallery of soap opera supercouples who failed and then tell us what you think below!

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After Stone’s death, his grieving girlfriend was sure that she’d never love again — and, frankly, viewers thought she might be right. But then a miracle occurred: A tender romance blossomed between her and, of all people, her polar opposite: brain-damaged Mob muscle Jason. They were warm and cool, open and closed, the ultimate yin and yang. And they might have made it for the long haul, too, had he not put Carly’s needs first, inadvertently pushing Robin to acknowledge that, however platonic it had become, the besties’ love was the one that was going to stand the test of time.

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The CBS soap caught lightning in a bottle when it paired Jon Hensley with Martha Byrne in the 1980s. “I just had that massive crush on him,” she admitted to <a href="https://www.soapoperadigest.com/content/icymi-martha-byrne-interview/">Soap Opera Digest</a> in 2020. She was “like, ‘Oh my God, he’s so cute!’” After replacing her with Heather Rattray, ATWT recaptured the magic by rehiring Byrne. But when the role was recast again, this time with Noelle Beck (formerly Trisha, Loving), Holden and Lily were as much a thing of the past as Byrne’s tenure on the show.

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In the early 1980s, Wayne Northrop’s rough-around-the-edges cop and Deidre Hall’s glamorous Doc were the kinda hot that could give viewers third-degree burns just by watching. But after Northrop split in ’84 to return to Dynasty, their moment passed (and, for a while, we all thought that Drake Hogestyn’s John was Roman!). Days of our Lives re-teamed Northrop and Hall in ’91, but to no avail. He was given the chop three years later, telling the <a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1994-07-14-9407140014-story.html">Chicago Tribune</a>, “Leaving this time is not my choice.”

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There was an irresistible sweetness to the romance that blossomed between Jonathan Jackson and Rebecca Herbst’s characters as teenagers. When they promised to be one another’s forever, we didn’t doubt it for a second. But after Jackson left the show in 1999, no matter how good the subsequent Luckys were — and Jacob Young (ex-Rick, The Bold and the Beautiful) and Greg Vaughan (Eric, Days of our Lives) were really good — the relationship, understandably, never felt the same. Even when Jackson returned a decade later, we had the sense that times had changed… and so had Lucky and Liz.

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We can understand why the NBC soap would’ve wanted to keep this supercouple going after Mary Page Keller left her role in 1985. But what we can’t understand is why the powers that be thought they’d be able to. Keller, you see, didn’t just have chemistry with leading man Thomas Ian Griffith on screen, she had it off, too. So any sparks that flew between him and her successor, Taylor Miller (previously Nina on All My Children), were going to seem by comparison like a flicker, not a blaze. The show figured that out a year later and not only nixed the pairing but killed Sally!

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We thought these crazy kids just might make a real go of it. But when push came to shove, the mother of three decided that her actual kids shouldn’t have to grow up in the line of fire that seemed to follow wherever Sonny’s right-hand man went. So the two of them broke each other’s hearts — and ours along with them — and parted ways. Now, he’s raising a family with Sam, and she’s married to former homicidal maniac Franco. Hey, it makes sense to them.

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At a time when the soap was struggling and desperately needed a shot in the arm, Kin Shriner and Genie Francis’ young lovers provided it. “All of a sudden,” he recalled for <a href="https://www.soapoperadigest.com/content/icymi-kin-shriner-interview/">Soap Opera Digest</a> in 2020, “people were running home from school to watch it.” So super a couple did Scotty and Laura become that they even had their own spoiler in scheming Bobbie. But after she unleashed big brother Luke on the sweethearts, and he became infatuated with Laura, the audience grew more enamored of the new pairing than it had been of the old one.

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