explain what you mean by "dead in the water" & of course they would dumb down his character anybody with half a brain knows that was gonna happen think about it...would you rather
A.have mcbain somone who's a somewhat popular character go to a new show and get some shine and don't really have to dumb him down
or
B. have Todd who's one of the top male characters in the soap opera world from one show come in and unseat another top male character (sonny or whoever it is on GH) on the show you already have...shyt makes no sense b hell this nikka todd manning was trending on twitter two months ago
the point is they rather have mcbain style on sonny or whoever the head honcho is on GH rather then another top dogg (todd) style on sonny and it makes more sense for mcbain to because he's a cop