Thanks @EricMontreal22 I have been searching for that for years. Is it still online or archived?

Check your messages. I had forgotten how many fascinating details it has (although being a long dissertation a huge chunk of it is filled with methodology and maybe a bit too many minute details...)

@EricMontreal22 Thank you for the 1976 notes.

You do get a sense of no love lost there with Doris and Gordon. No wonder she said what she said when she was fired.

I wonder if there were ever any occasions of viewer mail having an impact.

I never would have guessed Agnes was the one who suggested they kill Victor to raise ratings, as it feels like, just reading the synopses, he had been boxed into a place where dying only made sense.

The downside is his death seemed to hurt Viki as a character and she steadily moves into more of a secondary focus or into plots which aren't that compelling (like her angsting about Kevin being taken).

1 hour ago, DRW50 said:

I never would have guessed Agnes was the one who suggested they kill Victor to raise ratings, as it feels like, just reading the synopses, he had been boxed into a place where dying only made sense.

The downside is his death seemed to hurt Viki as a character and she steadily moves into more of a secondary focus or into plots which aren't that compelling (like her angsting about Kevin being taken).

And, of course, the more time passed from when Victor was a character, the easier it was to radically and retroactively change who he was (which did some long-term damage to Viki, too).

27 minutes ago, Franko said:

And, of course, the more time passed from when Victor was a character, the easier it was to radically and retroactively change who he was (which did some long-term damage to Viki, too).

Oh it did horrible damage to Viki in the long term, and in the short term you had the damage of killing Meredith, giving up on and killing Tony, and so on. I don't know where Viki would have been without Erika, Clint/Viki, and then Rauch putting the character back at the center of the show. By the show's last years it was just Erika powering through a lot of poor and weak writing.

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