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<blockquote data-quote="tommie" data-source="post: 164610" data-attributes="member: 370">I think that was Darren Star&#039;s intention when he left the show with a draft until the &quot;winter finale&quot; in season four - I just tend to think it was the typical short-sightedness of Frank South and Chuck Pratt that squashed all those new characters. While I was happy to see the last of the Parezi clan, killing off Alycia was a mistake for an example; she could&#039;ve easily been a series regular and considering she was a lawyer and all the legal problems the tenants had, it would&#039;ve made sense to expand her role. Brooke was simply made too unlikeable, but that wasn&#039;t exactly Kristin Davis&#039;s fault - she could&#039;ve easily lasted a few seasons if they had played their cards right and expanded her orbit beyond Billy and Alison, at the end she wasn&#039;t even in Amanda&#039;s orbit! While Patrick Muldoon wasn&#039;t going to win any Emmy&#039;s, making him a crazy psycho rapist was also an example of the &quot;shit, we need a cliffhanger and something exciting to happen&quot; line of thinking.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="tommie, post: 164610, member: 370"] I think that was Darren Star's intention when he left the show with a draft until the "winter finale" in season four - I just tend to think it was the typical short-sightedness of Frank South and Chuck Pratt that squashed all those new characters. While I was happy to see the last of the Parezi clan, killing off Alycia was a mistake for an example; she could've easily been a series regular and considering she was a lawyer and all the legal problems the tenants had, it would've made sense to expand her role. Brooke was simply made [I]too [/I]unlikeable, but that wasn't exactly Kristin Davis's fault - she could've easily lasted a few seasons if they had played their cards right and expanded her orbit beyond Billy and Alison, at the end she wasn't even in Amanda's orbit! While Patrick Muldoon wasn't going to win any Emmy's, making him a crazy psycho rapist was also an example of the "shit, we need a cliffhanger and something exciting to happen" line of thinking. [/QUOTE]

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