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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Daniel Avery" data-source="post: 406842" data-attributes="member: 27"><p>The show suffers for the lack of a "moral center" character.  The bad guys are painted as the heroes, while the good guys are ineffectual and compromised to a point that the tradition of "good triumphs over evil" is totally ignored.  I think Patrick Mulcahey was making a good-faith effort to change that decades-long inversion---but was shown the door for his efforts.  The natural moral center of the show would be Laura Collins, but they muddy the waters by how she coddles and often supports the villains of the town (Sonny, especially, but also Esme, Nikolas, now Heather).</p></blockquote><p></p>