Nola started as a stock character that was around a LOT on soaps back then--the poor girl who dreamed of raising herself up out of her lower class status, usually through marriage. That character has pretty much disappeared now, partly because it seems a bit regressive, and partly because if you're not rich on a soap, you will be eventually. Bobbie was the same on GH--the Laura/Scotty/Bobbie triangle was basically transplanted to GL with Morgan/Kelly/Nola.
So I don't think it was so much that she lost her edge, and it did make sense for her to be a dreamer. The positive reaction to Quint/Nola was unexpected. Supposedly, Marland always planned to put Kelly and Nola together (I totally don't get why, but whatever). And it was kind of interesting (for a while) to see the girl fantasizing about being the heroine in a movie actually becoming a heroine in an Indiana Jones style movie.
But that doesn't go very far on a soap.
Bobbie lost out in the Scotty sweepstakes but she went through a lot of stuff over the years. Making Nola a happy wife and mother of two put her in a corner. I'm not saying they couldn't have come up with stories for her, but clearly Kobe and Long were not as enamored with her as Marland was.
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