Sheen was being paid to be an asshole. And you can say that the show had no integrity b/c it's the deuchy thing to say; but whatever that show had going for it, Lorre betrayed it and the loyal fans.
Srsly?
He was paid to portray an asshole character not as a 24/7 permanent asshole.
You have reached a level of boredom that I didn't know existed.

Show is over.
Let's find something worthwhile to fight about. This ain't it.
Yes; and as a method actor, Sheen was an a-hole in his real life. Much of what he did brought the show great publicity. Lorre was fine with it until it became personal. Lorre butchered that show and betrayed its fans who had been following it loyally for seven years.
LOL @ method actor! Sheen is what you get with a life long drug and alcohol problem that stops being forgiven because you're hawt.
Maybe, Sheen would have had similar problems minus the show. But his tv role was conducive to his lifestyle; and I know from interviews that he found value in bringing his TV persona to his real life and visa versa. In fact, his TV character converted from hard liquor to just beer b/c he had such a hard time segregating the two.
Sheen already had problems before the show. He has a history of similar problems. Show/no show he is an aging hard core party animal that showed signs of mental illness and he is not the young stud that he once was. The show had nothing to do with it.
He sure as hell is not, nor has ever been, anywhere near a disciple of Konstantin Stanislavsky.