Oh, yeah, I forgot they wrote the Dee/John story, a REALLY poor imitation of their Holly/Roger story. For some reason the women (well, men, too) they wrote on ATWT didn't have the same nuance as on GL. You can't just transplant a story to a different set of characters--a big part of why Holly and Roger's story worked so well was the long history the characters had: Holly, Roger, Ed, Rita. Brad was such a snooze that when he and Dee finally got together they flopped so hard the characters broke up for good almost instantly. They tried to make Maggie, the lawyer who defended John, into a female version of Ross. It just did not work.
I agree, it would have been better if Dee had fallen in love with John the way Hope fell for Alan, because of the history. Marland did use history with Alan and Hope's story, mining Mike's resentment for Alan. I will totally give him credit for that. I'm not saying I hated what Marland did with their story, I was actually pretty into it at the time, only that the Dobsons had a different plan. Both story choices were valid, IMO. (Except for the redemption, thing, LOL, I never understood why you would neuter a character like Alan).
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