10 or 20 years ago there seemed to have been more friction between actors and writers... actors would complain about the writing, and then contract negotiations would come up, and production would try to cut their pay, and the actors would threaten to walk, and the character might even leave town for a while during negotiations... and now no one seems to care. I don't know if it's either the actors are just accepting the cuts (clearly a lot of them have accepted a shockingly low guarantee, but maybe not the likes of EB) or if TPTB don't threaten cuts to the big stars anymore because they realize Victor, Jack, and Nikki are the only reason anyone watches the show (it's certainly not for the writing or sets and they are happy to cut the budget there).
I remember Amelia Heinle talking about during the Aunt Jordan nonsense they were all trying not to laugh during the poisoned water bit and EB turned to her and said "this is either going to be really good or total crap" so it's not like he doesn't have opinions. It's just everything with this show works off inertia, from the top down.
It's kind of funny how soap fans used to complain about a lack of vets and too much focus on young people, and now the only ones with consistent story are the 80+ group, lol.
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