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I am very sorry to read this. I thought San Martin's original iteration of Dario worked for the time and for what the show was in that moment. I liked Dario / Melanie even if I liked Melanie / Nathan more. Pairing the former con woman with the current con man had potential that never was monopolized due to timing (Dario was introduced very late into Higley / Whitsell / Tomlin and quickly booted).

San Martin was green, but I remember him being charming and leaving an impression earlier when he appeared as a hospital patient who infect Nathan and Melanie with some fictional virus that required them to quranatine together while the hovered near death.

I know Banus is a bit controversial, but I am glad she shared this. There is something special to me about those soap friendships that are maintained beyond the space of their time on the soap (in this case it was particularly short).  

Too many soap people have passed in recent years. 

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So young. So devastating. I can't stand hearing people taken from us so young. And it's happening more and more.

May his soul rest in peace. 

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Sorry to hear of his passing, may he RIP.

I had to look up who he was on B&B…and it all came rushing back to me of a story I had actually blocked in my head as Sheila’s goon during the painting story.

Thanks @dc11786 for the memories as well, by the time Dario was on screen in 2011 the show was completely unmoored and unraveling fast. 

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I didn't have a problem with 2011 until MarDar arrived, but I also wasn't as aware of how dark the tone had gotten by the dying days of Higley/Whitsell because I was so in the midst of it. Despite the darkness (Carly the pill popping doctor and Chloe the post partum mom turned prostitute) there was such lighter fare involving people like Maggie, Justin and Adrienne, and others that it didn't feel as bleak as it was.

There was definitely a massive shift in cast and story in the first to second quarter of 2011, which hadn't been the case for the past 2 years. After the big names were dumped in early 2009, the show's cast was relatively stable with a few people coming in and leaving. By 2011, there was a mass exodus (Shelley Henning and Jay Kenneth Johnson quit and Mark Hapka was let go) and there were new people introduced. I thought the transition was smoother than expected by playing the Brady / Melanie / Dario triangle, which wouldn't have worked forver, but made story sense given Arianna's recent death, Melanie and Brady's connection to Arianna, and resolving the thread of the hit and run driver by tying it back to her ex Troy. 

I don't know how I would feel revisiting that period today, but I enjoyed it immensely at the time.

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I saw how he died yesterday, but wasn't sure if it was appropriate to mention how he died. Why does LA have a site where they publicize in detail how civilians pass away? It seems unnecessary for it to be so easily accessible. Either way, he seemed so full of life and had a glow up since his time on DAYS. You really never know what something is going through. R.I.P.

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