Ironically, it’s the ones who have been killed or cut that have avoided the worst character assassination. I’d be very surprised if at least three of the regulars (RC, GG, JMo) do not have a strained relationship with A&E by this point.
Whenever I think about how JMo talked about going to the library to specifically look up stories about dark characters, so that she could better portray the Dark Swan, I wonder how she feels that all that research on her part was basically wasted. I’d be pretty peeved at the writers if it were me, because for her to go to all that trouble, A&E must have told her that they had something super big and super dark in store for her to play around with. But then she got to play with pretty much none of it. If even someone on JMo’s level may well have this sort of disconnect with the writers in regards to their character, then just imagine what it’s like to be someone like Sean who’s lower on the food chain.
Sean M. basically just said what I think MRJ probably felt but never really said.
I don’t think it’s coincidence that the two actors who have come out and aired their disappointment with how their characters were treated are Brits. The culture is different enough that they’re not gonna spend time trying to be overly PC, or polite, or kiss anyone’s rear end, the way Americans might. That’s not to say that I find people like MRJ to be disingenuous, (because I love the everloving crap outta that guy and consider him and his generous heart to be a gift to humanity), but culturally speaking, there’s a certain air of pretention (for want of a better word) that’s sort of expected, and Brits just don’t have that same filter. Good on Sean for telling it like it is!