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<blockquote data-quote="Ian UK" data-source="post: 440164" data-attributes="member: 244">I don&#039;t think either the writers or the actor herself were particularly interested in exploring Katherine&#039;s motivations.It&#039;s been interesting to hear Morgan Brittany talking about Katherine in interviews recently.&nbsp; Some actors who play &#039;baddies&#039; are looking for ways to sympathise with them, or to explore or even justify why they do the things they do. Joan Collins always fought against being labelled as a mere &#039;bitch&#039;, and saw Alexis as a powerful woman, not a one-dimensional villain. Whereas Morgan&#039;s approach seemed to be that Katherine was just mad and bad.&nbsp;She asked her make up artist to model Katherine&#039;s look at Snow White&#039;s Evil Queen, who is not a figure that you spend a lot of time empathising with!She&#039;s also on record as saying to the writers: &quot;You&#039;re not actually going to let her win, are you? You mustn&#039;t let her get Bobby!&quot;I think because of Morgan&#039;s own ethics, she wanted to see her own &#039;evil&#039; character be defeated. (Whereas if it were me, as both an actor and a viewer, I&#039;d have been much more interested in seeing her actually succeed - albeit maybe only temporarily - rather than just having Bobby drift into the anodyne arms of Priscilla Presley!)As for why they killed her off alongside Bobby, Morgan was 7 months pregnant at the time, hence why she was hidden in a mac behind the steering wheel of the car. She wasn&#039;t looking to return to the show full-time, and if Katherine had survived and fled again, the writers would have needed the Ewings to track her down and bring her to justice. (It had already been a bit silly that after shooting and trying to poison Bobby at the start of the season, she skipped bail and everybody just forgot about her. Had I been Bobby, I might have been a bit anxious that my would-be murderer was still on the loose...) So it was just more straightforward to kill her off too and wrap up the whole storyline.The one thing that has always intrigued me is the story-lining of the 84/85 season. The Jenna kidnap/Naldo murder storyline kicks off quite early in the season. Presumably the writers always intended Katherine to be the mastermind behind it all. At what stage did Patrick Duffy decide to leave, and when was that all tied in with the decision for Katherine to return and finally succeed in killing him? If Patrick had not quit, how would the Jenna/Naldo plot have been resolved, given Morgan was not available to return in any meaningful way, I wonder... Would Katherine have still remained a shadowy, off screen presence, and how believable is it, given the Ewings&#039; resources that they wouldn&#039;t at least *try* to track her down!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ian UK, post: 440164, member: 244"] I don't think either the writers or the actor herself were particularly interested in exploring Katherine's motivations. It's been interesting to hear Morgan Brittany talking about Katherine in interviews recently. Some actors who play 'baddies' are looking for ways to sympathise with them, or to explore or even justify why they do the things they do. Joan Collins always fought against being labelled as a mere 'bitch', and saw Alexis as a powerful woman, not a one-dimensional villain. Whereas Morgan's approach seemed to be that Katherine was just mad and bad. She asked her make up artist to model Katherine's look at Snow White's Evil Queen, who is not a figure that you spend a lot of time empathising with! She's also on record as saying to the writers: "You're not actually going to let her win, are you? You mustn't let her get Bobby!" I think because of Morgan's own ethics, she wanted to see her own 'evil' character be defeated. (Whereas if it were me, as both an actor and a viewer, I'd have been much more interested in seeing her actually succeed - albeit maybe only temporarily - rather than just having Bobby drift into the anodyne arms of Priscilla Presley!) As for why they killed her off alongside Bobby, Morgan was 7 months pregnant at the time, hence why she was hidden in a mac behind the steering wheel of the car. She wasn't looking to return to the show full-time, and if Katherine had survived and fled again, the writers would have needed the Ewings to track her down and bring her to justice. (It had already been a bit silly that after shooting and trying to poison Bobby at the start of the season, she skipped bail and everybody just forgot about her. Had I been Bobby, I might have been a bit anxious that my would-be murderer was still on the loose...) So it was just more straightforward to kill her off too and wrap up the whole storyline. The one thing that has always intrigued me is the story-lining of the 84/85 season. The Jenna kidnap/Naldo murder storyline kicks off quite early in the season. Presumably the writers always intended Katherine to be the mastermind behind it all. At what stage did Patrick Duffy decide to leave, and when was that all tied in with the decision for Katherine to return and finally succeed in killing him? If Patrick had not quit, how would the Jenna/Naldo plot have been resolved, given Morgan was not available to return in any meaningful way, I wonder... Would Katherine have still remained a shadowy, off screen presence, and how believable is it, given the Ewings' resources that they wouldn't at least *try* to track her down! [/QUOTE]

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