I like Brooke Bundy ok as Diana, and truthfully she’s the only one I have seen very much of. But she works best to me as a performer with a character that has an edge, and Diana is just such a victim. I think she is most successful when she realizes who PJ really is and is trying to seduce Jeff in the few months leading up to her murder.
In another world she might have made a better Monica than Diana, although I wouldn’t want to lose Leslie Charleson’s Monica, who was truly a unique character compared to her peers on other soaps. She gets to have passionate affairs, rivalries with other women, fight with the dysfunctional Quartermaines, have an always interesting partnership with Alan, was portrayed as a good doctor, a not so great mother, and got to do comedy too. Monica was such a great character.
I guess Jessie had the last laugh because both of them ended up murdered (Lesley’s was a retcon, but still). Diana still has her moments thanks to Heather Webber for a few years until she is murdered though. When Jessie fell off the front burner she really fell.
Anne written in her own blood was such a great story beat!
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