It seems pretty obvious that when Carlivati was fired from the show and the new headwriting team was brought on, ABC gave them the directive to push Sonny/Carly and their myriad offspring to the forefront of the show again...even at the expense of ratings and quality.
A really interesting twist that came to my mind would be that they do find a body part--either an arm or a leg. They use this to assure everyone that he died in the explosion. Later on, they hire an actor minus one of those limbs and explore the idea that Morgan survived and perhaps went to the super-secret Clinic For the Not-Quite-Dead where AJ hid out for over a decade recuperating from a broken back, alcoholism, and all the other problems he had when he was presumed dead. Dr. Obrecht, you will recall, ran that outfit, and since she's currently laid off from the closed hospital, perhaps she took on his case as a freelance? Anyway, having Morgan survive but lose a limb might give them a way to re-position the character and help him gain a bit of maturity and lose that whole "spoiled rich-kid with no ambitions" image that this Morgan had.
I like this idea, though soaps have a difficult time remembering when they've disabled a character. See Philip Kiriakis, who lost his leg while in the armed forces, but seemed to grow it back depending on which actor was playing the role.
With such a huge cast, you would think the writers would spread around the material a bit more*. I can tolerate Laura Wright, but Maurice Benard drives me up the wall with his mumbling and stumbling through his lines. It is fairly evident that ABC pressures them to keep Sonny/Carly in the forefront, in much the same way they are forcing the show to "make nuJason happen" even as Billy Miller seems to be absolutely miserable playing Jason. The over-exposure of Jason/Carly/Sonny in the 2000s is the stuff of legends, and I fear they're trying to go back to that nightmare.
Yes. It may just be a daytime form of "method acting", but I would swear he is reading off cue cards at times, what with the way he glances toward but not directly at the cameras.
Billy Miller was so good on Y&R no matter how bad his story, or the show, became, that it makes his miscasting here all the more obvious.
I do give them some credit for making Tracy a player in Port Charles again, and I've seen more of Monica in the past three months than I saw her in the last three years! I'm also liking their efforts to establish Laura as a player in PC again rather than just being a hand-holder for her kids.
Definitely. For a show with so few veteran actors left (thanks again, JFP), it is definitely important to utilize them. I also like that Laura is being given a storyline
independent of her family, though I wish they hadn't jettisoned Spencer.