Lots to digest here, board is moving fast!
Eh, I don't feel sorry for Marland or how his stint on GL ended.
Nobody liked the Carrie story but him and Jane Elliot. He was SO focused on it, the rest of the show was suffering. He stuck Amanda in that horrendous Mark Evans story, had Alan and Hope sidelined in their little cottage, had Vanessa acting like a cougar before anyone coined the term, turned Ross into an idiot (JVD made jokes about it, but you could tell he didn't like it), made the insane decision to kill off Jackie, stuck Kelly and Morgan in a dull "marriage vs. career" story...He was playing favorites. I'm sure most writers do that, but it was to the point that it was really hurting the show.
I believe Potter left not long after Marland quit. So it's an interesting question of how much longer he would have lasted on the show even if Potter hadn't told him Elliot was being fired. Under that scenario, would Kobe had been brought in? Would she (or any new producer) have wanted him to continue as writer?
Even though we often bash Kobe, there's no denying she and and Long (and Ryder) gave GL a big shot in the arm those first couple of years. If she had refrained from decimating most of the Dobsons' and Marland's characters...oh, the possibilities.
I love, love, LOVE this idea! I have frequently thought they should have brought Morgan back. Walker was just the right age at the time to play Morgan. They could have had Morgan retired from modeling and come back as an attorney, so then Ross would not have been the lone attornery in the main cast.
They wrote one for him for a short time--that German professor who was dying. Bert had befriended him and he was teaching Rick German.
I remember thinking, "Steve should be playing these scenes."
Maybe he was supposed to. Maybe Schnabel turned down a chance to do a short-term appearance as Steve, because it was a little strange that Bert was deeply mourning someone she knew for a very short time. Whereas if it had been STEVE...
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