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<blockquote data-quote="Daniel Avery" data-source="post: 440040" data-attributes="member: 27"><p>I think he was a (-nother) victim of the transition behind the scenes.&nbsp; Latham and Lechowick had totally checked out by the second half of S12, and when they wrote the cliffhangers I think they got sloppy because they knew it would not be up to them to resolve them in the fall.&nbsp; The multi-layered mess of Steve&#039;s parentage could have created engaging stories in the hands of good writers (mainly: could Steve have a claim on Sumner Group?), but the writers who came in seemed either uninterested in using the character or ill-equipped to do the story justice.&nbsp; Maybe it was a &quot;hot potato&quot; L&amp;L tossed in on purpose to put their successors on the spot?&nbsp; Whatever the case, letting Steve die in the cliffhanger did allow the new writing team to tell stories they wanted to tell rather than spend extra time resolving plots dumped on them by the previous regime.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Daniel Avery, post: 440040, member: 27"] I think he was a (-nother) victim of the transition behind the scenes. Latham and Lechowick had totally checked out by the second half of S12, and when they wrote the cliffhangers I think they got sloppy because they knew it would not be up to them to resolve them in the fall. The multi-layered mess of Steve's parentage could have created engaging stories in the hands of good writers (mainly: could Steve have a claim on Sumner Group?), but the writers who came in seemed either uninterested in using the character or ill-equipped to do the story justice. Maybe it was a "hot potato" L&L tossed in on purpose to put their successors on the spot? Whatever the case, letting Steve die in the cliffhanger did allow the new writing team to tell stories they wanted to tell rather than spend extra time resolving plots dumped on them by the previous regime. [/QUOTE]

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