Cynthia Watros keeps being given material she could really go off on and then they retract it, and diminish her to a contractual day player. I still don't buy her as a fashion maven running Crimson at all. That story decision still does not sit well with me.
I wonder who their choice was, hmm...
Based on scenes I've seen, Billy Warlock is a very different AJ than Sean Kanan or even Gerald Hopkins. And I've got to say: if Robert Adamson were allowed to be Michael full-time, I would say he opposite Warlock would be a great son/father combination, in the same way I felt Chad Duell was opposite Kanan.
I feel like daytime never got Warlock; I think the one person in his corner was John Conboy.
Warlock was set up, and even he knew it: he knew his castings in the roles of AJ on GH and Ross on OLTL were not meant to work, but he still showed up to do his job. He's a trooper. And then his 2004/2005 return as AJ was sabotage, but even per his own words: it was the first-time AJ was given a chance to fight. He may have lost said-fight, but he was given a chance, and it made for his best three-months in the role (per Warlock).