Legacy characters most in need of recasting?

[Faulkner]

I think that’s right: Morgan should have been the wild child in contrast to Michael, the more strait-laced son none the less at odds with Sonny. I think the problem is that they’ve made Michael both a bland young male lead and a Sonny bootlicker, which is the worst of both worlds. If he were a reserved, mostly decent son who deeply disapproved of his parents, he’d be more tolerable. There’d be an internal conflict that would make him interesting. But GH won’t allow that. Sonny haters are usually the bad guys. CD, I think, is good enough to play something bolder, but the point is moot.

AH as Y&R’s Victoria would only be watchable for me as an all-out icy bitch villainess (it works for her), but again they’d never allow it. They keep throwing romances at her to make her happen as a heroine. I guess that works for a lot of people? It sometimes boggles my mind how much modern audiences enjoy what these shows are putting out, but there ya go.