Re: When DC went downhill

"Seaclock" <seaclock@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Sharpe Fan wrote:
> > "Seaclock" <seaclock@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> >>Rob Jensen wrote:
> >>
> >
> > [snipped]
> >
> >>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.
> >>
> >>
> >>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

Since they didn't really have much for either character to do after season
two, it would have been better to have them as non-regulars and have them
move back to Providence at the end of the season.

Use'em or lose'em.

Sharpe Fan