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Well, there's plenty we disagree about but it really doesn't matter. The thing is I am under the impression that they did not know what they were doing at TEXAS. Maybe that is an incorrect impression but I really don't think it is. If they'd had good sense on how to best use Beverlee things might have been so different. I know hindsight is hardly fair. I'm sure they tried their best. I always come back to wondering what if they'd stuck with their original idea. It always seemed a helluva lot more interesting that Daytime's version of The Ewings on a big ass ranch, if you know what I mean & I'm sure you do.

 

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I agree!  Granted, I didn't watch back then, but what I've read - Rachel had gone blind AND had lost her memory by the mid-'80's? - doesn't sound all that great to me.

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No way would AW send Rachel to a spinoff. She and Mac were all that remained of the glory days. Fans would be furious if Rachel left Mac and headed off to a new show.

The only reason Bev went to Texas was her decision to leave AW. So they offered her $$$ and a shorter contract to star in the new show.

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You're right, although AW kept Rachel and Mac apart for almost all of Texas! lifespan anyway. But Rachel moving to a new show entirely would have been much starker. I do think it could have been interesting...and maybe this would have been the time to bring back Pammy and Gerald. 

(sorry, I know this is all more suited to the AW thread now)

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Well, they came close.  Rachel was blind three different times, the first time in 1978 at the end of the Sven plot. And then two more times during the 1980s.  She also had amnesia in the mid-1980s. And she did have a near-death experience during AW's 25th anniversary week in 1989.  I believe Iris was in Bay City to witness only the first and the last of these ailments.   

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Each time Rachel was blind, did she ever mention in dialogue that she had been blind before?  Or was each occurrence of her blindness treated as totally new?  I realize each occurrence had a completely different cause, but still she should have mentioned being blind previously.  Even if it was just a throw away line.  Does anyone remember?  And did any of these cases of blindness take place while Iris and Dennis were in Texas?  It would have been fun to see Iris's eye-roll, as Rachel goes blind for the second and third time.  LOL.  

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That's not exactly my impression of how it happened. They had it in their heads that they needed Iris long before they actually talked to Beverlee about it. By that time VW had suggested to her that she play hardball with them in regards to a new contract, which she did & is the reason she got so much money & also the star billing. Since they wanted her more than she wanted them, she had a distinct advantage.

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I remember Rachel was blind (after the car crash that killed Steve?)when Mac pretended to be Reginald Fearing,but what were the circumstances of the 3rd time she was blinded?

At some point, soaps stopped using the blind/paralysis stories, when disability awareness grew. Same with rape as a plot device.

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