That movie's awful. It would be interesting to see the ratings on it--if that was an experiment, then I assume it failed, because I can't recall any other movies tie ins being made. CBS always seemed to be a step behind; ABC was using it's primetime to tie in viewers across their schedule (I'm binging The Love Boat, and stars from their primetime make multiple appearances. About season five they threw in some of their soap stars like Lucci, Tristan Rogers and Richard Dean Anderson).
Re Kobe "making a point"....you'd have thought that point would've been made already, as she'd fired Kathleen Cullen and Janet Grey. Arguably, maybe Janet wasn't as big a fan favorite as Elvera, but she'd been there longer.
A big problem with the constant regime changes that when characters got "cleaned out", there wasn't a structure left to really welcome return visits. In '97, who do you bring back that adds to story? I think Don Stewart came back, didn't he? The Bauers had dwindled, and Alan-Michael wasn't there. They got Michael Tylo back, but McTrash had trashed Quint and Nola, and Vanessa's "dead". Billy's back, but Vanessa's "dead" and married to that [!@#$%^&*] lunkhead ****. '97 would have been the optimal time to bring on Stacey Chamberlain, but they couldn't even get that right...
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