It’s hard to quantify for me because she has been Carly the longest, and she has also endured the longest run with shallow writing that didn’t really explore her properly.
To be honest nobody has ever reached what Sarah Joy Brown did for me. TB was a good recast for what they wanted at the time, but even she was pushed as romantic lead first, with a combative and antagonistic edge. SJB’s Carly was just much more complex, partly from her, partly from the writing, and also partly from the push/pull happening between Riche/Guza. There could be darkness and misogyny during their run, but it was more tempered. JFP leaned into that, and Pratt loves a trashy catfight. So the three of them setting the course in 2002 for several years really sets a tone.
With all that said, I also do not see SJB working well now. They are just so different that it is impossible to imagine. I wish they had been more levelheaded when they wrote Claudia, but that just wasn’t going to happen at that time.
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