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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Carrie Fairchild" data-source="post: 58662" data-attributes="member: 673"><p>Like I mentioned in the other Crossroads thread, I quite like the idea of a soap having a female figurehead in the way that they had Meg. You don't really see that in soaps these days. You have matriarchs that drop in and out of prominence as stories dictate but you rarely see one show built around one central character nowadays. Probably because it's quite impractical in terms of casting and also it goes against the old adage of there being "no one star in a soap, the show is the star". Despite not being planned, Patricia Hamilton (Rowena Wallace) became the "star" of Sons and Daughters for a number of years and it was fantastic. From what I've seen online, I think Nicola Freeman could've been the female figurehead of the 80's but I don't think she hung around too long due to the change in producers?</p></blockquote><p></p>