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<blockquote data-quote="Daniel Avery" data-source="post: 432020" data-attributes="member: 27"><p>My guess is that when they wrote Mary-Frances&#039;s return/murder plotline, they had not anticipated that Stacy Galina (in her short time onscreen) would make such an impact on viewers.&nbsp; M-F was likely seen as &quot;easily expendable&quot; since the character had not been mentioned in years.&nbsp; I recall a lot of soap magazines saying good things about Galina&#039;s performance.&nbsp; The same situation had occurred with Lisa Hartman&#039;s Ciji---people were left wanting more.&nbsp; So when the show brought in the Claudia character to help fill the void left by Donna Mills&#039;s departure, the show used that opportunity to bring back Galina as the &quot;look-alike cousin&quot;.&nbsp; Kate could function in the same capacity Olivia Cunningham had for Abby--the &quot;good&quot; daughter horrified by the bad things her mother did.&nbsp; Good idea, but lackluster execution because Olivia had been about 13-15 years old when Abby was doing her worst, whereas Kate was 21-22---old enough to be her own person and not just &quot;Claudia&#039;s innocent little girl&quot;.&nbsp; In order to maintain Claudia&#039;s motivations (scheming to secure a portion of Sumner&#039;s fortune for Kate), they had to write Kate as having a sort of stunted growth and not having much of a POV as a character.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Daniel Avery, post: 432020, member: 27"] My guess is that when they wrote Mary-Frances's return/murder plotline, they had not anticipated that Stacy Galina (in her short time onscreen) would make such an impact on viewers. M-F was likely seen as "easily expendable" since the character had not been mentioned in years. I recall a lot of soap magazines saying good things about Galina's performance. The same situation had occurred with Lisa Hartman's Ciji---people were left wanting more. So when the show brought in the Claudia character to help fill the void left by Donna Mills's departure, the show used that opportunity to bring back Galina as the "look-alike cousin". Kate could function in the same capacity Olivia Cunningham had for Abby--the "good" daughter horrified by the bad things her mother did. Good idea, but lackluster execution because Olivia had been about 13-15 years old when Abby was doing her worst, whereas Kate was 21-22---old enough to be her own person and not just "Claudia's innocent little girl". In order to maintain Claudia's motivations (scheming to secure a portion of Sumner's fortune for Kate), they had to write Kate as having a sort of stunted growth and not having much of a POV as a character. [/QUOTE]

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