As much as i like to rag on KZ/Reva---I don't think TIIC really had anyone to "pass the baton off too", so to speak. Their younger leads kept leaving. By 2000, the character most like what Reva had been was Dinah, and she was already gone. Harley and Blake were reformed (Blake is basically a walking hormone of idiot choices), Beth was never the dynamic kind of character Reva had been (at least as played by BC). Michelle is the legacy ingenue, and while BJL is great in the role, I think everyone knew she was not sticking around. I guess there's Cassie, but they were never going to let her be as messy as Reva had been, she already had a kid when she came on the show. (Not that these women didn't have fans or act their asses off with what they were given.)
So maybe...it's not all KZ's doing that she kept getting the over-the-top stories. Yeah, she wanted to be front and center. But I also don't think the show wanted to let Reva age either. (or at least write her as a sick old lady.) Kind of the same way they kept de-aging Susan/Daisy and let Harley keep making the same stupid romance mistakes she'd been making since her 20's.
I swear, I think Reva only got cancer in '06 ish because it was literally the last resort, and TIIC were going to make sure that KZ understood Reva could die with a keystroke.
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