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<blockquote data-quote="Daniel Avery" data-source="post: 319398" data-attributes="member: 27">The main thing I notice is that Victor&#039;s seated in most of his scenes nowadays.&nbsp; They do a good job of staging his scenes so that it does not matter, but there seems to be a lot of scenes where the theme is &quot;Victor is sitting someplace/someone comes in to talk/he tells them something they don&#039;t like/they storm out as he still sits&quot;.&nbsp; That&#039;s fine, though---there are many valid ways to keep him stirring the pot.&nbsp; He doesn&#039;t have to be in his &quot;Grambo&quot; black tank-top pummeling a punching bag any more.It would not surprise me if the &quot;previous regime&quot; (I&#039;m thinking he is referring to the Mal Young era) gave him and several other high-salary veterans the idea that they were a financial liability.&nbsp; Young was both Head Writer and Executive Producer.&nbsp; Sony lowered that &quot;no raises&quot; edict onto the cast due to regular cost-cutting, and Young (unlike the previous Bell-friendly show-runners) had no qualms about enforcing that edict.&nbsp; He had no favoritism for longtime employees, since all these people were new to him and he had no &quot;favorites&quot; to protect.&nbsp; Mishael Morgan, Doug Davidson, and Eileen Davidson all quit rather than accept a contract renewal without a raise. I&#039;m sure Braeden let his opinion on this &quot;no raises&quot; edict be heard, and I recall him being especially cranky about how they let Doug Davidson go without so much as a farewell story, since DD was the longest-tenured actor on the show at that point.&nbsp; The no-raises thing was not Mal Young&#039;s doing, but he likely made it known that if certain high-wage veterans were to leave or bump themselves down to recurring or whatever, the budget might be in better shape and make the no-raises thing go away.Ironically, soon after Mal Young left all three of those actors returned, though from what I&#039;ve heard, Doug Davidson is gone yet again....probably due to lack of story rather than some contractual battle.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Daniel Avery, post: 319398, member: 27"] The main thing I notice is that Victor's seated in most of his scenes nowadays. They do a good job of staging his scenes so that it does not matter, but there seems to be a lot of scenes where the theme is "Victor is sitting someplace/someone comes in to talk/he tells them something they don't like/they storm out as he still sits". That's fine, though---there are many valid ways to keep him stirring the pot. He doesn't have to be in his "Grambo" black tank-top pummeling a punching bag any more. It would not surprise me if the "previous regime" (I'm thinking he is referring to the Mal Young era) gave him and several other high-salary veterans the idea that they were a financial liability. Young was both Head Writer and Executive Producer. Sony lowered that "no raises" edict onto the cast due to regular cost-cutting, and Young (unlike the previous Bell-friendly show-runners) had no qualms about enforcing that edict. He had no favoritism for longtime employees, since all these people were new to him and he had no "favorites" to protect. Mishael Morgan, Doug Davidson, and Eileen Davidson all quit rather than accept a contract renewal without a raise. I'm sure Braeden let [I]his opinion[/I] on this "no raises" edict be heard, and I recall him being especially cranky about how they let Doug Davidson go without so much as a farewell story, since DD was the longest-tenured actor on the show at that point. The no-raises thing was not Mal Young's doing, but he likely made it known that if [I]certain high-wage veterans [/I]were to leave or bump themselves down to recurring or whatever, the budget might be in better shape and make the no-raises thing go away. Ironically, soon after Mal Young left all three of those actors returned, though from what I've heard, Doug Davidson is gone yet again....probably due to lack of story rather than some contractual battle. [/QUOTE]

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