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Looking at KMs bio on the Soap Hoppers thread I'm not seeing a resume that says serious actress. She pretty much went straight into soaps and stayed there.  Good luck to her and hopefully she invested wisely as there doesn't seem much out there for her.

Maybe Return to Playboy - A New Beginning. 

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Killing her off seems a bit vindictive, but the character has been useless and the actress lifeless for over 2 decades. The only spark she had was her brief turn as a villain back in 2007 or so. 

Her current story with Dante feels like a repeat of the story she had with Patrick a decade ago. If her character is not paired with one of the Jasons, she's paired with a character who will certainly dump her for his true love once his true love comes back from near death. Her character has always been a placeholder. 

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Posting Dirty Soap episodes in this thread is already totally OT, but multiple posters have complained before about links being posted to the reprehensible right-wing Rumble site on this board. Please stop. If you have to send these links to people do it privately.

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The writing has been on the wall for "Agent Cates" from the get-go.

A simple solution to Dex and Joss...  Dex is jogging shirtless in the park  A day-player couple are arguing. He thinks he should save the wife because it's domestic and she kills him trying to save her husband. Unlikable Joss goes to see her father in Australia. Two episodes and out. Dayplayer couple arrested by Chase. Rest Joss a year or more and hire an Emma  Scorpio-Drake or Lila Rae. Gio gets a job on Broadway...  Easy Peasy exits. Re-cast Spencer or Cameron and for the love of God-- use Trina as something besides a sidekick...

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I don't need Mac to lose his son now that he's found him. It doesn't hurt that even though Cody's throughline of story has literally been all over the place, his chemistry with the Scorpio family and Tracy, Sasha is the actor's saving grace to avoid the boot.

It is symbolic that they used Hartley when they had emotional scenes for Sam to play, though, isn't it?

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I was much more enthused about Drew and Nina (and the Willow factor) when Mulcahey was here. Unless they continue to really lean into Drew Q the smarmy power player and cad and make the couple or triangle what it could be, I'd probably write them out together after a certain interval - 6 months, a year. If it's a budget issue though I'd cut them immediately. Dex can go at any time. Sasha must vanish. Natalia (if she's on a contract), of course. Wagger, gone. Same with Michael and Willow, possibly after a blowup over Drew and their subsequent divorce. Michael would be back recast in a year or two; Willow would not.

Joss I would leave where she is - maybe she returns after a brief absence following either Dex's death or a breakup - and move into a secondary and more comic spoiled role for now. I'd probably recast with someone stronger down the road, but I think Eden has a certain raw facility and register she can work in. It's just not what they have her doing.

Gio I would give a shot with an actual story and character, none of which he currently has. But if nothing works, bye.

Cody is fine by me and stay the mischievous but sweet stable himbo. No notes.

I'd also quickly cut Curtis, T.J. and Molly, Jordan and Chase. Bring on better characters who aren't played out. Chase would probably die, or he and BLQ would leave for a brief period - six months, maybe - and again only BLQ would return (recast if necessary).

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Why do we think that social media speculators see Kelly Monaco's firing as the first sign of the apocalypse for GH's cancellation, versus other recent actors who were let go?

Is it her tenure? 

Because this feels much more HR-related than a sign of overall budget cutting.

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Her mother and Billy Miller’s mom have been adding fuel to the fire that she was targeted by Frank unfairly.

As I read more posts attacking other actors,  I am less sympathetic to their cause when it comes to many of her fans. I have seen multiple posts claiming that Jonathan Jackson was offered some fat contract like he had in the JFP days. That Finola wasn’t asked to take a pay cut, and that’s not fair to Kelly somehow. That Laura Wright should be fired first. I am as sick of Carly as can be, but LW never looks bored or phones it in. That Maura  was spared so KM had to go. That cutting all the recurring characters is the same on their budget as Kelly, or people like Gio. That Steve Burton still has the influence he had in the 2000’s and could save her job. Tagging actors in posts like this. WTH is wrong with people.

Soaps have such a small fanbase considered to other celebrities, that it’s almost impossible to avoid stuff like this online. I feel for them, they are not in control of the shows.

Kelly was in the top earners. This seems sudden enough to be budget, but also possibly more than that and the opportunity presented itself. i think it sucks to be fired, and if Michael Easton and Roger Howarth had not also been fired within this season I would be much more upset for her than I am.

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