So what's the deal with Joe Haskell's new hair color?
And why is he being so condescendingly stupid about the pentagram on his pretty boy face and the warning from Janet Findley? After all, it wasn't very long ago that he was Vampy Angelique's man-bitch!
What a good-natured simpleton!
Maybe this is why Joel Crothers decided to leave the show. He said in an interview he was tired of playing "nice guy" Joe Haskell and when he heard about the new Quentin character he asked Dan Curtis if he could play that part and Curtis told him "no." I guess after having had a taste of a more complex character like Nathan Forbes it was quite a let-down to return to playing milqutoast Joe.
The same seems to be true of Alexandra Molkte; her decision to leave the show seemed to be based more on her dissatisfaction with the role rather than her pregnancy.
It's ironic in both cases because if they'd just stuck around a little while longer they would have both gotten the chance to play new characters in 1897. It's especially ironic for Crothers because as far as I know he went on to play nothing but bland, nice guy characters on the others soaps he went to.