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<blockquote data-quote="Daniel Avery" data-source="post: 95991" data-attributes="member: 27">Billy Miller is a leading man stuck playing what has been a supporting role since his hiring.&nbsp; He&#039;s been a sort of trophy handed off to various characters.&nbsp; If he had been hired to play a new character, he might have caught on better, but even as they hand him a &quot;new&quot; character, he has to carry around the baggage of being &quot;The Drew Formerly known as Jason&quot;, not giving him the same freedom to play an independent role.&nbsp; He has a wife, but is she really &quot;his&quot;, since she thought he was Jason when she married him?&nbsp; He has friends, but they also developed those friendships under &quot;false circumstances&quot;.&nbsp; At best, friends and family tried to remain neutral ( shrugging or not rooting for OG Jason or NuJason to be the &quot;real&quot; Jason), while other characters were spending thirty seconds with OG Jason and declaring &quot;He&#039;s the real Jason!&quot;&nbsp; Sam was the only major character who openly stuck up for (and with) NuJason in that period, to her credit.&nbsp; But you just know they&#039;re going to write a triangle to tear that up, too.And of course the fact that Steve Burton is once again playing Jason will make it necessary for the writers to re-establish his presence, and I don&#039;t think they will be able to do that without &quot;taking away&quot; from Billy Miller&#039;s efforts to make this new identity (his third) work.&nbsp; Miller&#039;s no longer the new, shiny thing orbiting Sonny World, after all.&nbsp; My guess is that Miller will honor his contract as long as they want him, but if he can get some kind of primetime gig they will quietly let him out of his contract. Truer words never spoken.&nbsp; As if Days has not been trying to do this for twenty years--to recapture the days of Jim Reilly&#039;s insanity, the days of Sheri Anderson&#039;s supercouples, and all the other times when they were more popular.&nbsp; B&amp;B seems to be falling into that trap, as well, but not to the extent that Days has been trying for so long.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Daniel Avery, post: 95991, member: 27"] Billy Miller is a leading man stuck playing what has been a supporting role since his hiring. He's been a sort of trophy handed off to various characters. If he had been hired to play a new character, he might have caught on better, but even as they hand him a "new" character, he has to carry around the baggage of being "The Drew Formerly known as Jason", not giving him the same freedom to play an independent role. He has a wife, but is she really "his", since she thought he was Jason when she married him? He has friends, but they also developed those friendships under "false circumstances". At best, friends and family tried to remain neutral ( shrugging or not rooting for OG Jason or NuJason to be the "real" Jason), while other characters were spending thirty seconds with OG Jason and declaring "He's the real Jason!" Sam was the only major character who openly stuck up for (and with) NuJason in that period, to her credit. But you just [B]know[/B] they're going to write a triangle to tear that up, too. And of course the fact that Steve Burton is once again playing Jason will make it necessary for the writers to re-establish his presence, and I don't think they will be able to do that without "taking away" from Billy Miller's efforts to make this new identity (his third) work. Miller's no longer the new, shiny thing orbiting Sonny World, after all. My guess is that Miller will honor his contract as long as they want him, but if he can get some kind of primetime gig they will quietly let him out of his contract. Truer words never spoken. As if Days has not been trying to do this for twenty years--to recapture the days of Jim Reilly's insanity, the days of Sheri Anderson's supercouples, and all the other times when they were more popular. B&B seems to be falling into that trap, as well, but not to the extent that Days has been trying for so long. [/QUOTE]

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