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Offline michael c

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Re: Did the Writers Find the "Present" Boring?
« Reply #15 on: November 09, 2005, 03:19:53 AM »
i'll also say that we are now so far away from the "present" time that the show took place in that it is almost a time travel storyline in itself. :P
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Re: Did the Writers Find the "Present" Boring?
« Reply #16 on: November 09, 2005, 04:53:48 AM »
I agree that most viewers probably took comfort in the fact the the family (in the present) continued-on unchanged after every storyline.  There is truly something comforting and familiar about that.

But, I bet that same expectation made writing for those characters extremely difficult and probably more than a little boring.
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Re: Did the Writers Find the "Present" Boring?
« Reply #17 on: November 10, 2005, 01:42:02 AM »
Professor Stokes was a human character added after 1795 who remained with the show until the end.

They missed oput on a lot of regular soap opera antics with Liz and Paul.  There was a real goldmine of material and then didn't do anything about it.
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