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Was Scott still rich after he turned against Reginald? I have a dim recollection that Reginald may have left all of his money to Victoria or something when he died, but while he was alive, did he continue to support Scott or try to influence him by giving or withholding money?

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I really liked Denise Alexander as Mary McKinnon and consider Mary to be one of only two successful creations Margaret DePriest had at AW.  John Hudson being the other one.  The first problem was that Reginald was written and performed like an over the top cartoon villain instead of a complex grey character. We should have seen onscreen why Mary loved him and why she was torn between him and Vince. The other problem was the casting of the McKinnons. Kathleen Layman (MJ) and Julie Osburn (Kathleen) were popular but left in 1986. Layman before Mary’s introduction and Osburn before we really got to see the impact of Mary’s return on the McKinnon family. Vince went through multiple recasts before we got Robert Hogan who was great in the role.  Ben was gone and Cheryl was new and never given proper focus.  The Loves had the same problem with recasting which is why the focus should have been on the Ewings and Matthews not the Loves and McKinnons.  

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The fact that Steve and Alice were excluded says a lot about that list. Now, I think Mac and Rachel are deserving, but Steve and Alice helped established AW and brought in the ratings. To be disregarded is disgraceful. I put them up there with Luke and Laura, Bo and Hope, Cruz and Eden, as far as importance to their respective shows! 

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I went back and looked at the AWHP synopses and they actually say that it was Chad who paid for the trip.

Thanks. I had only remembered Vicky getting the bulk of it and Donna and Nicole getting nothing. Apparently Mary got property in Paraguay. 

John didn't really work properly until dePriest left and they grounded him in the PTSD storyline. Mary was more consistently effective but had less storyline once Reginald was disposed of and her children dried up. And if her original storyline had been as icky as John's it probably would have dragged the character down as well.

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Did Chad profit financially from extortion? They spent so much time whitewashing him and suggesting that he could be a viable love interest that I don't remember him keeping up any criminal activity. When he started pestering MJ he was still pimping. I remember him chatting with a naive runaway in a park and nobly refusing to traffic her -- and of course feeling guilty when Dawn was diagnosed with AIDS. 

I don't know whether they considered having MJ go back to Chad after Adam jilted her. She didn't stay around very long after that. Dawn's trip to Venice with Scott was a graduation present and Chad apparently visited them before she died and never appeared in Bay City again.

TCM has a bio for Richard Burgi in which they oddly describe Chad as "macho".

https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/775837|0/Richard-Burgi#overview

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