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I was over the moon when i head Donna Mills was joining the show and was salivating at the idea of abby ewing scheaming against tracy Q or sharing a scene or two with Monica since DM and LC used to play sisters on Love is a many blabalabla (damn the name of that show was long).

You can only imagine how disapointed i was that rc and fv could only come up with that regurgitated vomit that played out.

But in no way shape or form can i blame DM for that mess. I actually thought she managed to bring some sense of dignity to such a badly written character.

I think i even caught her once or twice asking herself How do i act that out? On screen. Yet even when her character turned out to be the killer I found myself sympathizing with her instead of the "rootworthy" SiAm.

And i actually want Maddie back for a Nina vs Maddie showdown.

I know i know its a rule that we must syystematically hate on every newbie and even more so on Rc's pet newbies but I really like Nina for obscure reasons I will go over with my therapist :D

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Exactly.

I wouldn't say Donna Mills belongs in the same category with Elizabeth Hubbard or Beverlee McKinsey, but she is the kind of actress who can grab your attention if the writing and preparation are there. IMO, GH had with her someone who would have shone in scenes with their vets. But I keep forgetting just who is in charge these days, don't I?

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I just love reading your posts! When it comes to the budget, I get confused. How do you justify so many new hires? Yes many of them are dirt cheap but some of the vets took significant pay cuts. Instead of adding to the cast, use the existing cast to tell the stories and romances onscreen.

Although moRon says Geary is mistaken about bonus incentive for new characters, how else do you explain this morbidly obese cast? Is all the casting an admission of being no talents? I'd really like to know.

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AFAIK, half the cast is recurring. That's part of it.

They (allegedly) tried to get Genie to either take a massive cut or join the Lucy/Scott/Felicia/Kevin, etc. recurring corps. She said no, and rightly so given her place in history. This is also what I feel got them on Tristan Rogers. They wouldn't give him a contract or firm dates, so he took a job somewhere that would.

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Couldn't the same be said of most actors? Other than the ones that, you know, are just in the wrong profession. I see the bolded so many times in defense of actors who have done something great at some point in the past but are either phoning it in or not passing muster now...or are maybe just getting by, that the writing is letting them down, but I see actors too with terrible writing who try to do things that make it better.

Either way, I think it's okay to treat actors as if they are fallible human beings. Cause they are.

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