While the Dobsons were still there, they were talking about it, with just about everyone trying to talk Hope out of it. So it could have gone either way. But I believe they would have taken the darker turn. It was Marland who decided to gratify the fans who wanted them to get married. He said as much in interviews.
Jennifer was so poorly conceived. It's one thing that she got involved with Alan when she was 16; it's another that she married a clod later on and then was easily fooled by Mark. I honestly can't understand why you would hire an actress like Court to play such a spineless, weak character. It totally went against the expectations the Dobsons set up by having her mysteriously arrive at Brandon's funeral in the black veils. Marland was totally aware of that, because he did a flashback where Jennifer's husband was giving her grief for going to the funeral in the veiled hat.
It seems like Morgan was soley created to do his teen fantasy story about a teen girl marrying an older guy. Once that happened, the character was kind of adrift.
Let's face it, he didn't write women well in general, unless they were a special pet of his, like Nola and Carrie.
Did they? I was under the impression that they were reunited but not married. And yet for some reason they kept Eve around for another year. I still say it was because they were planning to bring Rita back. That must have been scuttled because Marland quit or because Lenore wouldn't come back/they couldn't find a satisfactory recast. Possibly a combination of all three.
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