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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Willie Oleson" data-source="post: 72118" data-attributes="member: 8">When one Important Doctor goes away, another Important Doctor appears. The difference is that new characters on GA don't need a storyline, at least not a storyline to introduce the characters. They only have to be a doctor or patient.New characters in family sagas need more relevance (history or future), and I don't think they were only added to fill the void left by other characters. True, some changes were painfully obvious, like new daughter Amanda.A continuing story that focusses on a relatively small group of characters (the family) is a limited concept.Like Susan Sullivan said when she had left Falcon Crest: I had suffered all the sufferings, there simply wasn't anything left.Many of the 80s soap characters were both the "doctor" and the "patient".Btw, I think GA became a hit-show because they had all these freak-y and gore-y accidents, not necessarily because it was a soap.I loved Meredith and Christina's cleverness, and how they always found a way - no matter how obscure - to cure the patient. In essence, it was the "hospital version" of L.A. Law.</blockquote>

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