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<blockquote data-quote="Daniel Avery" data-source="post: 225752" data-attributes="member: 27">I liked how they staged this part of the story.&nbsp; Dianne never had any use for Karen--and made no bones about it.&nbsp; Dianne managed to pop up to save Karen not because she suddenly decided she liked the woman, but because Jeff had done her dirty and Dianne wanted revenge on him. Jeff had drugged Dianne to make it look like she&#039;d had some kind of psychotic episode and had her locked up--which made her look like a suspect in Karen&#039;s stalking and further deflected attention from him.&nbsp; Note how Dianne didn&#039;t seem too keen on getting Karen away from Jeff, or encouraging him to end this whole &quot;gotta kill Karen&quot; single-mindedness of Jeff&#039;s.&nbsp; I don&#039;t think she did anything to put Karen at ease, to let her know that the cavalry was on the way.&nbsp; Her saving Karen was purely a by-product of the encounter, and you got a sense that she would not have cared one way or the other if he HAD killed Karen during the showdown scene.&nbsp; She wanted to get Jeff&#039;s confession of being the stalker on tape to clear her (Dianne) of the crime, but if she also got footage of him murdering Karen...well, she would not be too broken up about it.&nbsp; It was not the typical way these kinds of scenes play out on soaps, but perfectly in character for Dianne.&nbsp; Robin Strasser did a great job with this character and story.But I agree that the wrap-up of this story was lackluster.&nbsp; It played a lot better when the viewer had to wait months for the new season to start.&nbsp; I recall when watching the episodes back-to-back in reruns that the Edit Monster had munched on one too many scenes and some key pieces of material had been lost.&nbsp; After all these years I would have no way of knowing what those lost scenes/lines were, since very few original CBS broadcasts exist out there.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Daniel Avery, post: 225752, member: 27"] I liked how they staged this part of the story. Dianne never had any use for Karen--and made no bones about it. Dianne managed to [I]pop up to save Karen[/I] not because she suddenly decided she liked the woman, but because Jeff had done[I] her [/I]dirty and Dianne wanted revenge on him. [LEFT][FONT=Georgia][COLOR=rgb(20, 20, 20)]Jeff had drugged Dianne to make it look like she'd had some kind of psychotic episode and had her locked up--which made her look like a suspect in Karen's stalking and further deflected attention from him. [/COLOR][/FONT][/LEFT] Note how Dianne didn't seem too keen on getting Karen away from Jeff, or encouraging him to end this whole "gotta kill Karen" single-mindedness of Jeff's. I don't think she did anything to put Karen at ease, to let her know that the cavalry was on the way. Her saving Karen was purely a by-product of the encounter, and you got a sense that she would not have cared one way or the other if he HAD killed Karen during the showdown scene. She wanted to get Jeff's [I]confession[/I] of being the stalker on tape to clear her (Dianne) of the crime, but if she also got footage of him [I]murdering[/I] Karen...well, she would not be too broken up about it. It was not the typical way these kinds of scenes play out on soaps, but perfectly in character for Dianne. Robin Strasser did a great job with this character and story. But I agree that the wrap-up of this story was lackluster. It played a lot better when the viewer had to wait months for the new season to start. I recall when watching the episodes back-to-back in reruns that the Edit Monster had munched on one too many scenes and some key pieces of material had been lost. After all these years I would have no way of knowing what those lost scenes/lines were, since very few original CBS broadcasts exist out there. [/QUOTE]

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