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<blockquote data-quote="Daniel Avery" data-source="post: 369408" data-attributes="member: 27">Quoting myself here after noticing what I wrote.&nbsp; I learned that Josh Griffith is not an active member of the WGA.&nbsp; He agreed to go Fi-Core when he took the combined Head Writer/EP role....apparently as a hedge against just the sort of thing that has happened with the WGA strike.&nbsp; It also explains why he fired all the Breakdown Writers earlier this year (or maybe late last year) and assumed those duties himself.&nbsp; It helped &quot;strike-proof&quot; the show&#039;s writing staff.&nbsp; If the entire writing staff is non-union, the show cannot compete for Emmys in the Outstanding Writing category, so it is claimed that Griffith hired/kept ONE union script writer in order to maintain eligibility for the Daytime Emmys, and that lone writer went out on strike while Griffith and some other scab writers are writing essentially as normal.Nate&#039;s de-evolution (what the wrestling world has deemed a &quot;heel turn&quot;) is not appealing to me, though I can see why they did it.&nbsp; I remember that robotic little child actor who played Nate as 5-6 years old back when Dru and Olivia were in town....and how Heather Tom was playing Victoria at the time as a young twenty-something.&nbsp; Ah, SORAS.&nbsp; Similarly, the way they played fast and loose with Tucker&#039;s age in order to facilitate the hiring of Trevor St. John makes him difficult for me to take seriously.&nbsp; And I agree that it&#039;s annoying how he was MIA for so many years, only to come back and take over so much screen time.&nbsp; Of course I might be persuaded to watch if/when they write a story where Ashley hands his ass to him the way Abby did to Charles Scott on Knots Landing.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Daniel Avery, post: 369408, member: 27"] Quoting myself here after noticing what I wrote. I learned that Josh Griffith is not an active member of the WGA. He agreed to go Fi-Core when he took the combined Head Writer/EP role....apparently as a hedge against just the sort of thing that has happened with the WGA strike. It also explains why he fired all the Breakdown Writers earlier this year (or maybe late last year) and assumed those duties himself. It helped "strike-proof" the show's writing staff. If the entire writing staff is non-union, the show cannot compete for Emmys in the Outstanding Writing category, so it is claimed that Griffith hired/kept ONE union script writer in order to maintain eligibility for the Daytime Emmys, and that lone writer went out on strike while Griffith and some other scab writers are writing essentially as normal. Nate's de-evolution (what the wrestling world has deemed a "heel turn") is not appealing to me, though I can see why they did it. I remember that robotic little child actor who played Nate as 5-6 years old back when Dru and Olivia were in town....and how Heather Tom was playing Victoria at the time as a young twenty-something. Ah, SORAS. Similarly, the way they played fast and loose with Tucker's age in order to facilitate the hiring of Trevor St. John makes him difficult for me to take seriously. And I agree that it's annoying how he was MIA for so many years, only to come back and take over so much screen time. Of course I might be persuaded to watch if/when they write a story where Ashley hands his ass to him the way Abby did to Charles Scott on [I]Knots Landing[/I]. [/QUOTE]

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