I think that was also true of Rita. She also was a very complex character who could be very selfish. Evie helped to temper Rita with the audience. Marland also had Evie become friends with Ross when he decided to make him less of a villainous character. Which is kind of unusual; you don't see too many male/female friendships on soaps. But it did help change the audience's perception of Ross.
Although several of AM and Harley's wedding episodes are available online, I can't remember anyone asking why Hope wasn't at her only child's wedding. Why she wasn't perhaps objecting to her 18 year old son getting married so young? (Did Ed--his great uncle--even put in an opinion on that? Maybe I have to go watch those episodes again).
I mean, we KNOW the reason. They SORASed AM so fast that they would have had to hire a much older actress to play his mother. They really painted her into a corner by doing it.
They papered over it at times by saying she had relapsed. But then you wonder...why wasn't her uncle helping her out? He was her sponsor.
Yeah, it was a big mess because no one gave it much thought. I've said it before, I LOVE Carl, Rick was also fantastic, and it's unlikely either would have done the show if they had SORASed AM more slowly. But they made it impossible to bring back Hope, who had tons of history that could have been used for stories. They got away with it with Amanda because she had no living children who could have been SORASed.
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