GH: Actor Leaving

[Vee]

Of course, why recast a vital younger character who is central to a core family when you can hold the role for somnambulant Chad when he's ready to return for a buck fifty? Idiotic.

[detroitpiston]

Might as well ship Willow, their kids, Sasha and Drew off too then because no Michael pretty much kills their storyline.

The chokehold the Facebook Millow loving fanbase seems to have on the show will never make sense to me

[John]

There is supposedly story for Sasha, Robert & Holly in the new year

[Liberty City]

Drew & Tree can go to wherever he needs to be as a Senator. Saescher & Michael can go somewhere else.

[detroitpiston]

Another thrilling 2 week Sidwell adventure no doubt 

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 let me chill on hating before the show has the chance to prove me right

[Aragorn]

Will Michael die, and leave behind Sasha pregnant with a Quartermaine baby?

[DRW50]

There could be story for Nina and Willow with Drew. I would recreate the story with Kimberly/Michael/Rae on Ryan's Hope. And if it ends with Willow gunning Drew down, no big loss.

I do wonder what they plan with Sasha, although I still assume she will be back with Cody at some point.

[titan1978]

It has that feel right now that the last days of JFP were giving. ABC cancelled AMC and OLTL, and Frank was moved over with no guarantee that the show would last. It looked bleak. From all accounts, the show barely survived. I feel a little of that same dread for the show. Not as acute, but GH is hardly stable.

And as you point out, several people with 10 years or more service have been let go in the last year. We know they were all devastated by several losses. I know behind the scenes Nneka Garland was a real blow to the show.

[DRW50]

Thank you. I'd forgotten about Garland. I can imagine that was devastating as they needed that type of support in so much upheaval.

We've gotten so used to the last four soaps hanging on by their fingernails that it can be easy to forget just how close to going they still are, especially GH and DAYS. I do see the similarity between where the show is now and was 11-12-13 years ago...the main difference is now no one is going to ride to the rescue. 

Hopefully something can turn around. And hopefully they won't have a departure that is going to really hurt the show. 

[Vee]

No one wants it.

I also think that's the smart play, though I think it's too late for the Blake/Ross/Holly (probably inverted) triangle Mulcahey was going to do. I think Who Killed Drew needs to end in Willow doing it (and probably framing Nina).

I see no reason to keep Sasha, Willow or their kids around. The Sasha Scorpio story has been insanely unpopular and she is a deeply boring character.

[DRW50]

Blake/Ross/Holly would have made sense, even if Willow and Nina just don't have that level of depth and Cameron is no Jerry Ver Dorn. 

(I know you weren't comparing them, sorry)

I do think Sasha is a likeable character, which is more than I can say for a number of others in her age range, but it does feel like she, Willow and Brooklyn all serve the same narcoleptic role.

[Vee]

Oh, I definitely think that triangle was the model for this story under Mulcahey, except I think here the endgame was Drew and Nina which I was very into. And I think it suited Cameron and Watros well. But now given the messy hash they've made of it since the changeover I'd just do Who Killed Drew.

I have always just found Sasha insanely boring, but that's me.

[DRW50]

I agree she's dull - she has a little more of the soap inner life compared to Willow or Brooklyn, I think, but I agree. 

Cynthia was doing such good work in the brief time she was allowed. A shame that's never going to happen again.

[slick jones]

 

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Wallow is a victim of the hospital killer that overdosed Sam on Digitalis.

Killing off Wallow and sending Michael to Sonny's island for a few months has been an idea of mine since he married her. She's a dud. Without her, Nina is no longer needed and Drew can go to D. C. to govern. None of these are essential characters to story.

Michael returns with a new face and a new lease on life (and prefereably not a pasty, pale dad- bod, just sayin'). Possibly with a woman (or a dude?) that didn't outlive their shelf life in 2019.

[Antoyne]

I couldn’t stand RA on Y&R. I remember when they tried to give him some fired up material once and he was embarrassingly bad.

I’d take it.

Agreed.