Carly does have a lot going on in these final days of Millee Taggart / Jacqueline Babbin, though I suspect the show is probably Milee Taggart / Fran Sears by the end of the last batch of clips. Paul's accident was clearly meant to heighten Paul's connection to Michael as he was unlikely to have a child afterwards, but that might have been a Mary Ryan Munisteri addition. Carly's role as Tommy's stepmother was set to be explosive between the relationship between Abril and Carly and any movement in the Michael story.
I do think Flynn / Carly / Paul / Ava becomes a tighter quad and centers Ava more though I feel like we've seen more of Ava scheming in some of those May 1991 episodes. I also think the show missed an opportunity by not exploring the conflict more between Paul / Ava / Alex having Ava involved with her new criminal beau and her cop ex-husband.
Ultimately, Fran Sears was going with the college revamp, which she announced even before the arrival of Addie Walsh and the big 1992 reset. It is now dawning on me, but I suspect that Mary Ryan Munisteri might have been hired because of Tribes and how Sears ultimately would have wanted a stronger youth appeal with the college set. So I am curious how that went wrong and why we got the swift shift to Addie Walsh.
Based on Tribes, I think the youth set would have been Matt Ford, Revel Bowman (musician), Ally Rescott, and Hannah with a Matt / Ally / Revel triangle while Revel and Matt were band mates with young man that had supplied Matt with drugs in prison. Most of this still played out (albeit very quickly and with Revel's role filled by James, a random recurring player who was swiftly abandoned) and I suspect, once Revel / Ally and Hannah / Matt were couples, we would have gotten Ally / Revel / Giff with Ally faking the pregnancy during Bonnie and John Rescott's (mostly offscreen) divorce. I don't think anything would have salvaged the pregnancy story, but Munisteri and Trent Jones did solid work with Stacey Cox's false accusation against Mr. Stevens followed by Pete raping Stacey. Honestly, a lot of the crappy early Walsh work was probably just alterations to Munisteri's plans with much less nuance than Munisteri would have given it.
I know Eric Woodall ended up going to college, but I think they should have tried to bring back Matt even if it was just when Woodall was out of school. The road to the Cooper / Ally / Casey triangle was very rough.
I do think it was smart of Walsh to add an Alden to the younger set. I think I might have made the character Lorna's adopted son, which would have been an interesting dynamic for Jack and Shana to play. It would also have meant committing to Lorna, and possibly even Ann. Also, Ava's niece going after Lorna's son would have been fun.
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