I was not watching live so I didn't see the chat.
I remember that movie The Cradle Will Fall, yes it was a terrible TV movie based on a wildy popular bestseller at the time. CBS was doing an experiment where they were going to tie in soaps with TV movies to see if they could get soap viewers to tune in to the TV movies. I'm not sure if they did it with other soaps, but since GL was my show I did watch it (so yeah, it worked, because I read the book and thought it was trash, lol).
The funny, or maybe kind of sad, part about this is that they had Hope involved in hospital business--which wasn't the case on the soap. At all. All of a sudden, she was doing stuff that had no connection to Alan. It was kind of wild because it was like, why weren't they doing this with Hope on GL? It should have been a wake-up moment for the writers to realize that the problem with her character was how they kept her tethered so tightly to Alan.
Jerry ver Dorn also did the movie, which gave Ross and Hope some scenes together, and hells bells, what an opportunity to have created an interesting quadrangle with Alan/Hope/Ross/Trish.
I gather from what others have said about her firing was that Kobe was making a point--that nobody was safe. I honestly do not understand why the network let her get away with this. Even if you weren't a fan of Roussel or Hope at that time, they eviscerated the cast. In the short-term it didn't hurt the show, but in the long-term it was catestrophic.
I can understand them not bringing her back in 1997--a lot of fans wouldn't have even remembered her.
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