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Current Talk '06 I / Re: Least favorite DS writer
« on: February 06, 2006, 06:57:13 PM »
Um, most of the plot points on DS (especially the really extreme, crazy ones) were dictated by Dan Curtis or, later in the series (1970-71), by Lela Swift who became the Producer during the final phase. The writers just had to choose HOW to write the story handed to them by DC. In some cases there was more give and take with the writers and Curtis spending hours arguing over how to plot a given storyline. In some cases they appear to have switched gears abruptly in mid stream (compare the respective runups to both 1795 and 1840 and how the stories actually played out).
So, it's really not fair to blame Welles for "killing off" Rachel. Welles wrote some of the best scripts in DS history. I'd say that she and Francis Swann were probably the best of all the writers. My personal least favorite writer was Ron Sproat. His scripts on DS were so paint by numbers. I've seen his work for Strange Paradise as well, and it was equally lacklustre.
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So, it's really not fair to blame Welles for "killing off" Rachel. Welles wrote some of the best scripts in DS history. I'd say that she and Francis Swann were probably the best of all the writers. My personal least favorite writer was Ron Sproat. His scripts on DS were so paint by numbers. I've seen his work for Strange Paradise as well, and it was equally lacklustre.
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