Re: When DC went downhill

Sharpe Fan wrote:
> "Seaclock" <seaclock@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>Rob Jensen wrote:
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> [snipped]
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>>By the way, totally off-topic, was Andie written out because MM wanted
>>to leave or did she leave because Andie was written out?  I always
>>thought the latter.
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>>Seaclock
> 
> 
> It was the latter.  TPTB decided they had no more stories for Andie and
> wrote her out.  She only had two stories when she was on: dating Pacey
and
> her mental illness.  The show was not geared to dealing long-term with a
> mentally ill character so that couldn't be an on-going plot and once she
> cheated on Pacey that more or less eliminated an romantic stories with
other
> core characters.  (She and Dawson were not really compatible.)

Too bad about that.  I know a lot of people didn't like Andie -- 
couldn't stand her voice, etc.  From the very short scenes with her in 
the finale it's pretty obvious that that was the way the character was 
supposed to be as a teenager and not something MM couldn't help because 
the five-years-later Andie was very mature.  One wonders if they would 
have found something for her to do if KW had stayed on board.  From the 
commentary on the finale both he and Paul Stupin worked for a long time 
to get her back for that episode which indicates to me that the 
character mattered to him.  He stated pretty directly that he didn't 
like what they did with her in S3.  I think I'd read that he wasn't 
happy with the way they got rid of her, either.  As you can tell, I'm 
partial to her.


> They didn't have much more for Jack to do.  He soon became the gay guy
and
> they didn't want to do much with that (and I understand the actor wasn't
> interested in it either) and they had no stories for him either.

Yeah, Jack got dull fast.  Not that I didn't like Jack but I can't see 
that anything he went through was markedly more interesting than what 
Andie could have gone through or, for that matter, what they did with 
Jen who was a more central character.


Seaclock