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I have no problem with OC packing the cast, as long as they pack the cast with quality. And for God's sake, bring back Tamra and perhaps someone else (Alexis? Gretchen?) from back in the day, because newbies on OC can't seem to tell their ass from their elbow. As for TayShanna, I think there was a feeling that she brought a lot of darkness onto BH, and that everything in her life had an aspect of questionability. Certainly in S3 she was viewed as the weak link: Brandi and Yolanda targeted her (she was BFFs with Linda Thompson, so Yo was triggered) and Kyle threw her under the bus to make herself look good. I remember Pam/Dana telling her "These women will never love you as much as they love themselves" (ICONIC moment). Given the dark mess of S4 which followed, yeah, I would have kept Taylor as she struggled with going from Kyle's pawn to finding her own voice and strength. Instead, it felt like 'Oh, Russell is no longer beating you? OK, you can go.' (And I was part of the problem back then. I thought Taylor and Russell were grifters in S1-2. The social-climbers trying to get in with a fancy social circle and pretend they were something they weren't. Taylor asking Adrienne to be 'godmother' to Kennedy exemplified this. However, in S3, as she started being phased out, I was like 'oh wait, no!' I realised that having ruthless social-climbers on the show wasn't such a bad thing. BH was -- and should have stayed being -- about the haves and the wannabes. The feel of the show had a touch of the original 90210 that way. When it got into glam squads, fake TV wealth and scripted talking points in place of dynamics between women is when the show started losing me. Clearly people were renting fancy looks and Ferraris to pretend they were a lot richer than they actually are. It's fine to be middle-class in Beverly Hills, you know? It's still better than 90% of the country, and there's no need to pretend to be ostentatiously Super-Rich all of the time. Apparemtly, according to her PR, Diana is the richest person to ever be cast on BH, and yet she's still giving me zero taste or energy! Anyhoo, in conclusion, i would love to see Taylor back on BH or OC, lol). -
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It would be interesting to know how far in advance Bell Sr planned his storylines - that is, when he left as HW, how much of future storylines were already outlined. -
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By sheilaforever · Posted
History of Head Writers March 23, 1987 (#1) - May 4, 1993 (#1533): William J. Bell May 5, 1933 (#1534) - May 19, 1993 (#1544): no head writer listed OR John F. Smith & Bradley Bell May 20, 1933 (#1545) - ....: Bradley Bell The inital story started under WJB but the entire climax happened during Bradley's reign.
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