Soap Opera Digest Forums: Dixie Returns!

ER does a few weeks/months, RB stays for a year, CMc is like a gypsy and doesn't want to commit to anything permanent, but they come back and characters & s/l are changed to accommodate them..

Mrskaz...these things are for me it a nutshell...the damage that's done to characters that are committed to the show to accommodate the chosen few who add nothing to the show.

When Cady came back the last time she wanted a storyline with Thorsten Kaye, even though he was heavily embroiled in a storyline with Alicia Minshew. They accommodated her and the storyline was one that really should not have involved Zach but Tad. It made no sense, but they had to honor their commitment to a returning diva. All it did was make the fans hate her and in the process ruin her character.
When she spoke up for MEK's Tad, it was not her place to do so..it was his. She didn't care that the character of Kendall was getting screwed over when she came back, she didn't speak up for her and didn't care that MEK wasn't involved in a storyline that was rightfully his and not Thorsten Kaye's..she wanted what she wanted and they gave it to her.

The same thing with Eden Riegel. Zach had no business being involved int that storyline with Reese and Bianca nor should he have fathered that baby..a baby I might add that really needn't have existed. If Pratt wanted to tell a lesbian story then tell it. The baby was not necessary. So to accommodate Tamara Braun and Eden Riegel, both the characters of Zach and Bianca were ruined. There were myriad numbers of story lines Thorsten Kaye could have been involved in while Alicia Minshew was on her sabbatical. Pratt was too creatively bankrupt to come up with anything. He didn't know how to write for character.

Greenlee...UGH! I am still bi*ching over the fact she never paid for trying to kill Laura English by pushing her over the railing of the yacht, outing Bianca, and kidnapping Spike. Kidnapping Spike was something the actress didn't think Greenlee would do, so when she returned during the unscrupulous, crass and unprofessional 'Real Greenlee' campaign Frons accommodated her wishes. Voila! Spike is deaf because of some nebulous heretofore never mentioned condition that a pediatrician would have picked up much earlier. Another kick in the face to the intellect of the fans. I lost all respect for this actress then(if I ever had any).
Poor Sabine Singh, who was coming into her own as Greenlee got screwed over but was professional enough to give it her all knowing she was being screwed over. How cutthroat of Frons and Rebecca Budig..

Please don't say Frons or Pratt had no agendas here with these actresses. (And these actresses have made it known they wanted to return.) They sought them out and made promises regardless of the commitment the permanent more loyal actors had with AMC. Instead of incorporating the returning divas into what was going on.

I wonder if they were carried into he studio on palettes by slaves like Cleopatra into Rome?

NBC is doing the same thing to Conan O'Brien to accommodate Jay Leno, that Frons did to Sabine Singh, Thorsten Kaye and Alicia Minshew to kowtow to Cady, Rebecca and Eden. Isn't it time Frons was let go?