Early Vicki seemed to be a supporting player so that there was someone in the political set in the office with Gene. The Vicki - Peter thread seemed more like background noise with Peter interested in the older, engaged woman. I suspect that Susan Scanell's departure in mid 1982 resulted in a some story shake up. Originally, when Gil Prescott was introduced, it looked like Gil and Lori were going to have a much deeper connection than what played out. The Gil and Russ rivalry initially involved Sheila, but I suspect would have led to Lori and maybe Marianne down the line.
I think the Deena - Gil - Vicki stuff was the Barnes scrambling after the departure of Becky to create something big for the younger set. As you well know, most of this is all dropped (including Jill-Peter) fairly early in Vinley's run.
Honestly, I would have killed off Vicki by the point I am at now (April, 1983) if not before. Kathryn King may not have invoked much sympathy from me, but I'm sure Peter's reaction would and possibly allow Nancy to have a moment of humanity realizing she has lost her only friend. Of course, I would also let this lead to Nancy trying to rekindle her friendship with Miriam with Miriam letting Nancy in. I think having Vicki dead when the revelation about the Cantebury Complex came out would have led to more problems for Marianne and Peter as having Vicki unable to defend herself, Peter might see the need to defend her honor against Nancy's accusations. The new actress is more natural in the role, but she has such a nasty edge to her that we seem to still heading in the wrong direction with her. Though, I feel like they are also chemistry testing Peter with Stacey Phillips as Peter says he's now considering journalism as a major.
Going back to @YTG 's earlier comments about Paul Gleason, he does look younger when I focus on him. I am imagining him more as he looked in The Breakfast Club where I think his hair was more gray. I wonder what the original story was for Kate - Lee. In a recent episode, Sebastian Knight mentions Kennedy and Chappaquiddick. I wonder if that was the original plan with Lee's lover dying and seeing how that played out. Or maybe Lee himself was going to be murdered. I do think there were ways to do a lot ofthat is to come with slight variations in the story. Also, this early on, I wonder if they were considering Amber and Lee at all because I could see some chemistry between Woody and Gleason. Even a quiet CBS morning soap in the 1970s like Love of Life or Where the Heart Is might have tried that angle. Amber aborting Lee's baby would have also been incredibly messy.
I'm not to surprised that you thought Blue might be Tony Cardello, or another child of Vince's. There is so much talk of Tony and Blue's backstory was given such a large amount of story space for someone who ends up dead in a few months. There is also aslot of homoerotic subtext to the Lance / Blue relationship that would suggest that Blue might have been gay Tony.
Like Babs, Dave is introduced as someone (in this case Jeff's) cellmate). Jeff's charges were related to pornography being sold in the books store. I think it might have been bootleg VHS tapes, but it also may have been selling to minors. I remember it was college students who were looking to purchase the material.
I appreciate hearing your point of view on the Kate Philips' trial. Everyone I have heard from loved it, so it's interesting to hear about some of the flaws. I wonder why they were so quick to drop Amber when it seemed like she had such a significant position on the canvas. I'm not looking forward to the recast of Gil, which I imagine I am fastly approaching.
I was aware that Lee Tatum died during filming. I was very shocked, and saddened, to read that Kim Strong took his own life a year and a half after the show ended.
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