I agree that Vicki #1 was the best down-to-Earth Vicki who started off mousy looking and later grew out of her shell, very much like Stacy did, but perhaps she wasn't cast as a contract role at first. Maybe the writers at the time didn't have any concrete plan to use her character again, which is why Jill became Peter's next romantic interest. I
You're right to point out that Vinley probably resuscitated stories that marked the show's 'lost' episodes with emphasis on Kingsley's underworld. He also brought back Eric Mason in person and an off screen Paul Mason since their early let off from the show was perhaps necessary, just like Helen's was, but they all had to return at a later point as Miriam got her life back on track.
I remembered now that when I watched AL when I was 14 years old, I couldn't fully let everything sink in and so for some strange reason I thought Blue Nobles with actually Russ' lost brother 'Tony' because it was my impression Russ would also stutter at times when he got really enraged. I can't come up with concrete examples, but I thought it would be a Greek tragedy if he unknowingly killed the brother he didn't know. How I could have concocted such a convoluted story is still a mystery to me.
What you're telling me about Dave #1 is coming back to me now and it makes sense now. He was Jeff Cummings' cell maye when he was incarcerated after mistakenly accused of harboring drugs at the book shop if I recall.
Speaking of Sebastian, I think I mentioned some time ago or maybe not that the actor playing him passed away before completing the storyline and so the script had to be adjusted. As a result, a few scenes were played by a different actor making it seem as though the original actor playing was still at the helms. They used old shots and other manipulations to disguise he was no longer there. They even used a different voiceover without actually showing him during the reconstruction of the murder scenes, when Amber's neighbor, the eccentric Mrs. Schmidt, heard the shooting from Amber's apartment just after a heated arguement between a Kate and a man with a deep voice. In fact, the actor who played some of the new scripted acenes was non other than Alan Sader (Harold) who had similar body measurements like Sebastian. If you rewatch those scenes or notice when Sebastian mysteriously disappears from the show with off screen phone calls between him and Lee, you'll know that's when the actor was no longer alive at that point. The second bullet theory which later becomes reality at Amber's apartment is ridiculous because how could the forensic unit didn't see a second bullet while thoroughly checking the apartment following the murder and cordening off the scene of the crime. Seems to me like this was part of the rewrites because it came at a very late stage in the story. Maybe I'm wrong. Besides, how could Amber stay at that place again? and how could Miriam rent the place? And how conveniently would Miriam take over Amber's modeling agency without prior experience or background? Some really shabby writing there. That's why I say things mostly went South after Dave's trial was over and the identity of the killer revealed. At that time, Russ was developing a relationship with Blair Simpson, Amber's old friend, but that was cut short because the writers decided to make Blair suddenly fade into thin air without any explanation and drag Russ into the ridiculous final showdown with Lance...
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