I was watching a couple of the late 1982 episodes on the German channel. What I really like that PFS did was have Alan go back to being Alan. They were setting up bringing back Phillip and Rick (who was still Freddie). Phillip got into trouble at his private school. Justin thought he had handled it, then Alan sneaks behind Justin's back and goes to talk to the headmaster and bribes him so he can lessen Phillip's punishment. Then he's telling Hope he wants to go back to the mansion for the holidays and pretending it's ONLY for holidays, because God forbid they squeeze Phillip into their cute little cottage.
And Hope is like, "Oh, but I love our little house and I'm used to it."
Honey, you ain't never going back to that house.
At the same time he's being super attentive and promising to buy her beautiful jewels for Christmas, etc.
PFS got rid of all that redemption, "I'm going to wear sackcloth and ashes forever to atone for my sins" crap. He was back to lying to Hope, placating her with promises of beautiful gifts, lying to Justin, using his money to manipulate and get what he wants.
I REALLY wish PFS had stayed, because instead having Alan decide out of the blue to treat Hope like she was some stranger who broke into his house, she was setting up all these little fissures and cracks that would eventually make marriage collapse. That would have been a good story.
I don't know what she pitched to the network/sponsor but seems to me this would have been an ideal time to bring back Rita. I liked that Long gave a decent storyline to Trish, but it was really difficult to buy that Alan was ready to replace Hope with someone so much like her. Pretty blonds who were rather passive and had daddy issues, both alcoholics--they could have been twins.
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