Thanks for the tag, @DRW50 ! It came across my feed earlier today, but I’ve only watched the DAYS ep so far. Definitely planning to watch the rest within a day or two!

9 hours ago, MissPalmer said:

Thank you! (And thanks @DRW50 for the notification).

Iris explaining to Blaine what lawyers are for was killing.

I liked Rachel very much here. A bit shocked that Frank doesn't seem to rate a mention as even a flirtation on Rachel's AWHP character page. His minor character entry does note that he dated Rachel.

I wonder if Frank was supposed to be a longer term character?

Maybe there was some BTS stuff that went on.

9 hours ago, DRW50 said:

Looking on AWHP she doesn't even seem to have been there a month, so you're right. I suppose the 90 minute runtime means they had already exhausted story possibilities for the mother-daughter triangle in that month.

I wonder how it played out on a day to day basis. Based on what I've read, it sounds like Dennis forgot all about Elena once he met Cecile.

10 hours ago, Paul Raven said:

I wonder if Frank was supposed to be a longer term character?

Maybe there was some BTS stuff that went on.

I was watching regularly at the time. And I remember Frank's arrival seemed like it was planned to be a big deal. It appeared there was a plan for him to be a new romance for Rachel. Then, Frank was quickly written off as if he didn't matter at all. So obviously there was some sort of change of plans. Remember, this is not long after Harding Lemay left the show, and it is possible Frank was created by Lemay and left behind in his storyline projections. It is even possible the character was already cast and hired before Lemay's exit. So if Tom King (Lemay's replacement) did not care for the character, he may have written him out as soon as he could. That's one possible explanation for the abrupt change of course.

5 hours ago, AbcNbc247 said:

I wonder how it played out on a day to day basis. Based on what I've read, it sounds like Dennis forgot all about Elena once he met Cecile.

The plans for Cecile and Blaine were completely changed by the post-Lemay writers. Before he left AW, Harding Lemay was planning to re-create the Steve/Alice/Rachel triangle with Jamie/Cecile/Blaine. Jamie (young adult version) and Blaine appeared before Lemay left, and Cecile arrived just a few days after his departure. And in an interview, Lemay mentioned it took six-months to cast Cecile. So he certainly created the character had some influence over casting. In Lemay's plan, Cecile was to be the ingenue and Blaine was to play the bad-girl (Rachel role). But later writers had Cecile and Blaine more-or-less reverse roles (I never understood why) and added Sandy to the mix which minimized Jamie's role. So the recreation of Steve/Alice/Rachel was taken off the rails by decisions made by the new writers. Cecile took-over the bitchy role and Blaine went down the Perils of Pauline path.

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