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<blockquote data-quote="Snarky Oracle!" data-source="post: 436981" data-attributes="member: 57984">At the time, and certainly now, Rhoda&#039;s absence in MTM is glossed over in the parent series&#039; episodes from early-Season 5, such that newer viewers today could be confused about what happened to her, other than a brief reference to a wedding.I mean, it&#039;s not as clunky as the Colbys&#039; appearance on DYNASTY before spinning off -- but then maybe it is.I&#039;m not sure I found Mary&#039;s new apartment cold myself, but it was certainly different. Although it had those &#039;70s earthtones and decor, and was a highrise versus a cozy Victorian attic -- and Mary herself concedes &quot;I don&#039;t like it!&quot; upon moving in (a smart move on the part of the writers, having Mary verbalize -- and therefore potentially offset -- the audience&#039;s inevitable discomfort with the relocation), I kind of accepted her new digs not because I liked them all that much (I kind of didn&#039;t) but because it seemed, even then, that it was a bit of a launching pad for Mary into a new future that we&#039;d mostly never see (given that the show obviously had to end sometime, and it probably wouldn&#039;t be too far off).<img src="https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/images/reviews/190/1268261017_1.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 858px" /><img src="https://cdn2.psychologytoday.com/assets/styles/manual_crop_1_91_1_1528x800/public/teaser_image/blog_entry/2023-10/MTM%20new%20apt.jpeg.jpg?itok=OMdLyTgK" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 860px" />BTW: the actual attic apartment in the real house which served as Mary&#039;s first lair:<img src="https://s.hdnux.com/photos/57/15/35/12375899/5/1200x0.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 923px" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Snarky Oracle!, post: 436981, member: 57984"] At the time, and certainly now, Rhoda's absence in MTM is glossed over in the parent series' episodes from early-Season 5, such that newer viewers today could be confused about what happened to her, other than a brief reference to a wedding. I mean, it's not as clunky as the Colbys' appearance on DYNASTY before spinning off -- but then maybe it is. I'm not sure I found Mary's new apartment cold myself, but it was certainly different. Although it had those '70s earthtones and decor, and was a highrise versus a cozy Victorian attic -- and Mary herself concedes "I don't like it!" upon moving in (a smart move on the part of the writers, having Mary verbalize -- and therefore potentially offset -- the audience's inevitable discomfort with the relocation), I kind of accepted her new digs not because I liked them all that much (I kind of didn't) but because it seemed, even then, that it was a bit of a launching pad for Mary into a new future that we'd mostly never see (given that the show obviously had to end sometime, and it probably wouldn't be too far off). [IMG width="858px"]https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/images/reviews/190/1268261017_1.jpg[/IMG] [IMG width="860px"]https://cdn2.psychologytoday.com/assets/styles/manual_crop_1_91_1_1528x800/public/teaser_image/blog_entry/2023-10/MTM%20new%20apt.jpeg.jpg?itok=OMdLyTgK[/IMG] BTW: the actual attic apartment in the real house which served as Mary's first lair: [IMG width="923px"]https://s.hdnux.com/photos/57/15/35/12375899/5/1200x0.jpg[/IMG] [/QUOTE]

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