Killing off Janie was such a shame because there were so many possible avenues to take her as a character. If they had to kill someone off (which I guess they did in order to fulfill the three "predictions" that Ava was given during her trip to heaven) and had to swerve away from it being Dinah Lee, I feel like the obvious character to sacrifice was Gilbert at the end of his storyline. When Ava was given her visions I believe it was said that she was seeing things that would happen over the next year, so there was no urgency to killing someone off, plus it being Gilbert would fit with her briefly being convinced that it was Jeremy who was going to die. The answers to her three predictions were revealed while she was being held captive by Gilbert (and her response to finding out that the person who died was Janie was basically ".... Who?"), which I think also makes Gilbert the more natural character to fulfill that prophesy.
That's funny, I grew up in Duncan! Were you also a dedicated watcher of Cindi Reinhart on Northwest Afternoon? She appeared on an episode of Loving in 1992, which is ironic since I don't think she ever talked about Loving on her own show (although she probably did that day).
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