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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.

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.