I don't understand how there is money in the budget for Michael Easton's over inflated salary (including per diem for commute, or a move) and the show has to drop Ingo Rademaecher and Tyler Christopher. Easton's character will need some contrived history re-write or outlandish plot device to fit-in. Whereas, Ingo and Tyler's characters still have so much unfinished business and an established history with the players on campus.

um not really. The history they are drawing upon here is John's time pre-OLTL which is a big open slate. It doesnt really call for any big contrived rewrite. He was a cop/federal agent and some time in the past, he crossed paths with Sonny who is a career criminal. Out of all the OLTL characters, I think John would be the easiest to incorporate

IDA on Nikolas. The character was awful in his last year and added nothing. There is no unfinished business. There was nothing going on for him while he was here and he needed to leave. As for Jax, Ingo may have screwed himself over as he recently bashed RC/FV. I dont think we'll be seeing Jax anytime soon based on that

I don't understand why John needed some backstory with these people anyway. How does that affect the plot? He has the same reaction to Sonny or to Sam that he has to a million other characters. It's just so contrived.