Neither can I. Maybe Shannen Doherty...she wasn't doing a lot at the time...
That could make sense as a reason.
I haven't watched that period in great detail, the early period, but IIRC the only actual stories were Jocelyn being a hooker because she had been sexually abused, the transgender story with a dud actress, Jared being a horror, Angie and Jacob with a foster child, and Frankie being drawn into some kind of race war which led to the bar being bombed (I still don't know how that story was approved and I don't think it was ever mentioned again even as some elements like Jacob and Cassandra carried over to Angie's AMC return). At the time, Marlena de Lacroix said the show had baked a cake with no proper ingredients. (the opposite of an Agnes show, really).
The Masquerade story did seem to be their way of trying to reset and have greatest hits. The story got some buzz, along with Tracy's arrival, but I guess that wasn't enough.
Thanks for sharing the review. I see what Schemering means about longer scenes. I think they did get better at this (the whole Carly/Paul/Ava triangle is not a favorite of mine but there are some longer, beautifully acted scenes), but it was an issue. In some of the '80s episodes there isn't enough plot while by the early '90s there is a little bit too much.
I can see why they didn't want to lose Catherine Hickland, Philip Brown, Randolph Mantooth and Laura Wright, but I also would have been more likely to just go with Angie and Jacob if they were going to be drastic. If they were going to bring as many as they did I would have brought Ava over too - clearly they wanted Alex to get to have romance and so on, but Lisa Peluso could light up any scene.
Debbi was on PC for about a year and a half I think. She joined because she wanted to play a character who was harder-edged (I'm not sure if that's why she left but by the time she left the character had lost all edge). I remember a letter in SPW at the time from someone complaining that Debbi had been talking about wanting to play the first black bitch in soaps since she was on Generations, telling her that Diahann Carroll had already done that on Dynasty.
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