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<blockquote data-quote="Daniel Avery" data-source="post: 130408" data-attributes="member: 27">&quot;That&#039;s not Krystle, but I like her anyway&quot; pretty much summed up my attitude.&nbsp; I was totally non-committal on NK&#039;s acting skills; I tend to &quot;buy&quot; into a performance as long as the performance isn&#039;t remarkably horrible.&nbsp; It was the writing choices that took longer for me to buy into.&nbsp; It&#039;s funny to hear people speak of &quot;the chance to rewrite the character and take her in another direction,&quot; since that&#039;s what they already tried to do with the shift from &quot;Krystle&quot; to &quot;Cristal&quot;.&nbsp; This would be their second attempt at it, if they are in fact planning to use Real Cristal Flores (RCF) in the same capacity they tried to use Celia Machado (which is actually very much up in the air).&nbsp; By mid-season, the writers did what writers tend to do, which is to write to the strengths of their actors (AKA using them as inspiration) rather than just writing stories without the actors&#039; abilities in mind.&nbsp; It seems like there has to have been some unhappiness on NK&#039;s part that factored into the decision to write her out, because only the most callous writers would toss the baby out with the bath water this way.&nbsp; What I mean is that she also must not have wanted to continue in the role, which helped them come to the decision to write her out rather than re-tool the character.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Daniel Avery, post: 130408, member: 27"] "That's not Krystle, but I like her anyway" pretty much summed up my attitude. I was totally non-committal on NK's acting skills; I tend to "buy" into a performance as long as the performance isn't remarkably horrible. It was the writing choices that took longer for me to buy into. It's funny to hear people speak of "the chance to rewrite the character and take her in another direction," since that's what they already tried to do with the shift from "Krystle" to "Cristal". This would be their[I] second [/I]attempt at it, if they are in fact planning to use Real Cristal Flores (RCF) in the same capacity they tried to use Celia Machado (which is actually very much up in the air). By mid-season, the writers did what writers tend to do, which is to write to the strengths of their actors (AKA using them as inspiration) rather than just writing stories without the actors' abilities in mind. It seems like there has to have been some unhappiness on NK's part that factored into the decision to write her out, because only the most callous writers would toss the baby out with the bath water this way. What I mean is that she also must not have wanted to continue in the role, which helped them come to the decision to write her out rather than re-tool the character. [/QUOTE]

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