All rights Reserved. What's of interest is that you share similar sentiments, but about different shows. Some of the major recurring concerns that we receive in email, or posted on the message boards include the concentration on and proliferation of newbie characters, recycling of story plots, over use of gimmicks and plot devices, the dismissal of favorite veteran characters, and the lack of stories about ethnic characters. TRO posters and emailers feel face the writers of today's daytime. They all seem to be trying gimmicks to outdo each other in shock value.
Characters are interesting and appealing because of writing and acting.
And yet, TPTB seem to think cardboard characters will do as long as they have cleavage or bulging pecs. And this trend of plot driven, gimmicky stories is turning many away. Geary consistently plays a character who is warped, thinks mainly of himself, is consistently hypocritical and never really acknowledges the pain he inflicts on others. His character acts like it is his due to murder, to insult and frame others, but should anyone do likewise to him, they are monsters. I am really turned off by this character and this type of writing.