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<blockquote data-quote="Daniel Avery" data-source="post: 323118" data-attributes="member: 27">I cut them some slack, though, because they are having to crank out so much material and keep so many balls in the air.&nbsp; I try to adopt a wait-and-see attitude when they resort to retcons like this, because I can overlook an occasional plot hole if the story that results ends up being highly entertaining.&nbsp; I&#039;m sure the writers are constantly weighing options like this, as in &quot;Will the viewers be willing to overlook ____ if the resulting story is good enough?&quot;&nbsp; It&#039;s just that individual Head Writers might have a lower or higher level of knowledge of what the fans are willing to accept and/or overlook.His time on Guiding Light was very successful and led to his higher profile.&nbsp; He was in a star-crossed lover storyline with one of the show&#039;s legacy characters, the &quot;sexy bad boy pursuing the goody-goody daughter of the town&#039;s core family&quot;.&nbsp; I did not see the Rosales family period in its original run but I got to see chunks of it in reruns on PlutoTV recently.&nbsp; Even when they were all there, Rey was the only one I found to be worth &quot;keeping,&quot; and he turned out to be the last one standing after all.&nbsp; Yes, Arturo was nice to look at but other than that....There was always that uncomfortable situation surrounding Rey&#039;s presence with respect to Paul Williams&#039;s.&nbsp; It was fairly obvious that Mal Young wanted to push Doug Davidson out because he was so expensive to have on the payroll.&nbsp; Replacing expensive Paul with cheaper Rey in the role of Genoa City&#039;s law enforcement representative was a financial decision more than a storyline priority.&nbsp; Young did not count on longtime fans becoming so upset over his dumping the longest-tenured actor from the show...but that&#039;s business.&nbsp; They brought Davidson back, but there was still that unspoken &quot;rivalry&quot; simmering below the surface when Davidson had scenes with Vilasuso---the feeling that we should choose sides in a conflict that might not even be a conflict.&nbsp; Now that Vilasuso is out, one wonders where that leaves Davidson; I&#039;d read somewhere that he had decided to quit the show again, but now there would not be any question who was the &quot;town policeman&quot; if he were to return.Conventional wisdom says that the reason Vilasuso was let go was to free up money to re-hire Michael Mealor (Kyle), and now that they&#039;ve also added a recast Summer, it makes some sense.&nbsp; Mealor left (in a huff) when his salary demands were not met, so in order to make him happy enough to come back, money had to come from somewhere.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Daniel Avery, post: 323118, member: 27"] I cut them some slack, though, because they are having to crank out so much material and keep so many balls in the air. I try to adopt a wait-and-see attitude when they resort to retcons like this, because I can overlook an occasional plot hole if the story that results ends up being highly entertaining. I'm sure the writers are constantly weighing options like this, as in "Will the viewers be willing to overlook ____ if the resulting story is good enough?" It's just that individual Head Writers might have a lower or higher level of knowledge of what the fans are willing to accept and/or overlook. His time on [I]Guiding Light[/I] was very successful and led to his higher profile. He was in a star-crossed lover storyline with one of the show's legacy characters, the "sexy bad boy pursuing the goody-goody daughter of the town's core family". I did not see the Rosales family period in its original run but I got to see chunks of it in reruns on PlutoTV recently. Even when they were all there, Rey was the only one I found to be worth "keeping," and he turned out to be the last one standing after all. Yes, Arturo was nice to look at but other than that.... There was always that uncomfortable situation surrounding Rey's presence with respect to Paul Williams's. It was fairly obvious that Mal Young wanted to push Doug Davidson out because he was so expensive to have on the payroll. Replacing expensive Paul with cheaper Rey in the role of Genoa City's law enforcement representative was a financial decision more than a storyline priority. Young did not count on longtime fans becoming so upset over his dumping the longest-tenured actor from the show...but that's business. They brought Davidson back, but there was still that unspoken "rivalry" simmering below the surface when Davidson had scenes with Vilasuso---the feeling that we should choose sides in a conflict that might not even[I] be[/I] a conflict. Now that Vilasuso is out, one wonders where that leaves Davidson; I'd read somewhere that he had decided to quit the show again, but now there would not be any question who was the "town policeman" if he were to return. Conventional wisdom says that the reason Vilasuso was let go was to free up money to re-hire Michael Mealor (Kyle), and now that they've also added a recast Summer, it makes some sense. Mealor left (in a huff) when his salary demands were not met, so in order to make him happy enough to come back, money had to come from[I] somewhere.[/I] [/QUOTE]

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