There is a huge difference in Ryan and Adam, the public didn't hate Ryan... the boards did, the public actually loved him. Couple that with the fact that Cameron was a popular personality outside the show.

Now Adam, no one likes Adam and judging from every time Muhney is mentioned, disdain comes with, he doesn't seem to popluar either. And lets not act like Sharon is popular either.

Basically you have two characters people don't like, and one no one cares about. I actually think MCE can start to make people care about Chelsea with this storyline. The public loves their crazys, she sold it on AMC and I think she can do it again. And the leg up that Chelsea has on Annie is, there not rewriting her history. Annie was a stepford wife her first few years, miss goodie two-shoes and BORING. Then all of a sudden she had this terrible childhood (despite always saying it was good), a bad relationship with her father, and a crazy brother, and then she went cray cray. Chelsea hasn't had a good life, nor has she been exactly a good girl either. I don't think her going crazy is as farfetched as it was with Annie.

Chelsea's personality has already been rewritten, going from grifter drug rapist to saint, now apparently to psycho. She's been boring in both incarnations.

Ryan was popular but never the type of polarizing and cult-like figure Adam seems to be. No one cared that much if Annie snapped on him, or on overexposed Kendall and Greenlee. It was conflict the story needed.

Chelsea going nuts would just make her a dime a dozen. I also think MCE is a little overrated and was lucky with some of the actors she was working with in her period of greatest popularity at AMC (Jacob Young, David Canary, etc.). She won't have that here.

People cared alot about Annie by the end because of JR.

For awhile I thought MAB was gonna make Chelsea into a back from the volcano Skye but instead she became a saint.

Who cares about that triangle all i care about is Victor vs Jack and the battle for Newman