Wow, a lot of comments! I definitely agree that it was a mistake to recast Burke Devlin. His foundation storyline was already over, and having a different actor come on to play a completely different character with the same name just didn't work. They could have said that he went away on buisness or something. I do think George was much better as Jeremiah. It's too bad to read that Frank Garner was gone because the actor wanted a payraise. He and Viki were so good together, maybe there wouldn't even have been a jeff clark if Frank stayed on.
I agree Cousin Barnabas, Burke #2 was so hung up on being conventional and straight laced, I don't think he would even have liked Mitch Ryan's Burke, and he seems out of place at the Blue Whale. I can imagine him saying to Viki one day (in a whining, nagging, complaining manner) "can't we just stay home?"
Burke was correct about Barnabas, but as Viki yelled at him several times, "is this how you're going to be when we're married?" He never really found out about Barnabas, but was so sure that he was right anyway. I don't really see any good option for Viki in this love triangle. Sadly, that fact didn't change when Jeff Clark came into the picture.
MichaelC does have a good point, seeing Burke #2 act so agressive and hostile to Julia and Barnabas doesn't hold up too well considering that the storyline didn't have it's original (HODS) ending.
Lydia, I really don't think that most of these lines would have been written the same for Mitch Ryan. I think (and hope) they would have maintained character consistency even if they had thrown him into a romance with Viki. I'm sure Anthony George may have been a nice guy, I just don't like his performance here.
Buzz was actually a really nice guy, I wouldn't have minded seeing him stay on.