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They never said he was dangerous - for God's sake, last summer he was half-naked and hogtied in the stables for laughs (and people did laugh). He was a liability to the Buchanans and Nigel treated him that way.

I thought a lot of the comments from Nigel and Renee were much more in line with him actually being a serious, dangerous person. The story was all over the place. I felt like the show was trying to come up with a reason as to why the family would go to such extremes, beyond not wanting to lose their money (since the Buchanans are long term characters, while David is recurring, they had to give some extra push to make them sympathetic), so they had at least a few people in the family genuinely talk him up as some sort of malice.

But many people doon't know the antics or controversial history of the actor, that is the character that so many find appealing. My whole point is: just because, as is many times presented, EB seems to be challenged in finding the differences between himself and this character why has it become the general consensus? No matter how much he tries to be Victor Newman or make Victor Newman Eric Braeden it is still a a fictional character living in a fictional soap world. I'm not saying that I think-that you think that Carl D -and I totally see your point about the appeal but I just believe that the appeal of Eric Braeden shouldn't be reported (in any kind of respectable publication) as synonymous with the appeal of Victor Newman. I think that a humbled, objective writer should clearly re-establish and re-affirm when they are referring to the character seperatly from the actor and his potrayal. How would he be a good actor to anyone if the man never left the character or himself behind where he needed to?

It's become the consensus because of wish fulfillment, or laziness, or both. It's easier for the press to treat him as the living embodiment of Victor Newman, and he is happy to be that. Someone like Michael Logan, who seems to have that vibe of needing to delve into the machismo hero worship type of thing, is going to be caught up in it.