I liked Shane a lot. He was the only Scott I ever cared about. He fit the bill for a son Stuart raised, and also had some similarities to Cindy.
Shane was let go in late 1996 and replaced with Daniel Cosgrove as this seemed to be when AMC was trying to bring in more generic good looking men, maybe due to the ratings slide (Michael Lowry joined around the same time as Cosgrove, and Vince Poletto and Maxwell Caulfield would join the next year). Cosgrove left in mid-1998. I don't even think he had an exit - last I remember him was being electrocuted. Then March started in spring 1999, I guess. The show never knew where to take Scott. I remember the one before Cosgrove returned, who was some kind of mad scientist; IIRC, fans talked more about his nipples than his characterization.
Becca/Scott/Greenlee came across to me as Nixon going to the Greg/Jenny well too many times, very dated for 1999, as did the whole country club and class envy stories, even if it gave Marian some interesting material. I do put a lot of the blame on Scott, even if I had no interest in Becca or Greenlee either (and I thought Budig was too hard for most of the Liza knockoff material they gave her - if not for Josh Duhamel I question how long she would have lasted). Once Scott was gone and Becca was mostly in a supporting part, busting Leo's chops and so on, she was OK, but she was an easy cut.
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