Beloved Character, Actor, Staple of the Show Let Go!

James Reynolds (Abe Carver), who has been with the show for almost 22 years, will last air this Friday, July 21st. The move is storyline dictated. "This is really hard. Of all of the cast-cutting I've done in the nine months of the blog, this is the hardest, and that says a lot because of the high caliber of the actors who were written out. This was really difficult. I went back and forth and back and forth and back and forth with the idea."...agonizes the writer. "I knew it was the right thing to do for the character and the story, but then I wanted the readers to happy and have Abe around, so then I'd switch back to keeping him on, and so on and so forth. It just came down to the fact that the story with Abe and Lexie has run its course, and Lexie is going to be a delicious villain on her own. Abe and Lexie cannot be reunited. She's wronged him way too many times now. It wouldn't be right or believable. Abe could have stuck around as a pillar of the show like Alice or just the resident cop, but that's just not fair if I don't plan on using him."

"So, it is with much regret that I have to inform that Salem will be without Abe Carver come this Friday. Of course, Abe can and most likely will be back sometime in the future. He has a lot of friendships and relationships that won't be forgotten. I don't want readers to get discouraged, however. I want them to know that when I make really hard decisions like this than they have to know the blog is going to be the best that it can be! These sacrifices ain't bein' made for nothing!"

The cuts will not end there. "I thought I had the cast in the place I wanted it, but I wasn't planning on writing for Stefano, Steve, and Kayla then. I am sticking with the plan to keep the blog at least somewhat on track with the real show so I had to bring them on. Not to mention, I really wanted to! Three people who are on the canvas right now will not be on the canvas after November Sweeps. One will be gone as early as the last week of August. The fans won't miss any of the three characters."....the writer says, confidently, but he teases...."The actors, maybe."