[Afamilyatwar-list] Ends and Means

[sjsto .]

I didn't realize Robert was Ford Prefect till I rewatched AFAW a few years
ago. A delightful intersection of two of my favorite things.

Sarah

On Sun, May 6, 2018 at 4:27 PM, Scott Filderman via Afamilyatwar-list <
afamilyatwar-list at baylor.edu> wrote:

> I understand why the “characters” were treated as they were; it all makes
> dramatic sense as well as being true to reality.
>
> I was just wondering if the actors were a factor in the characters being
> eliminated, which is often the case. As you say, they weren’t fired, so
> that’s good enough for me!
>
> Again, your writing is beautiful. I don’t believe there’s another word to
> describe it.
>
> Scott
>
>
>
> On Sunday, May 6, 2018, 4:19 PM, john at johnfinch.com wrote:
>
> On 2018-05-06 16:12, Scott Filderman via Afamilyatwar-list wrote:
>
> > Surely someone has asked this before but here goes....
> >
> > As Jean Ashton’s death neatly coincides with the end of the Second
> > Series, I wonder if the actress (really wonderful) wanted off the
> > series or had signed on for only so long or what the deal was. Major
> > characters leaving a Series always have a backstory. Patrick Troughton
> > had enough of Doctor Who after 3 years, so he morphed into Jon
> > Pertwee....
> >
> > And what about David Dixon? A very interesting young actor who
> > apparently had a very attenuated career. Was he “written off”
> > because he wasn’t interested or why was his character killed?
> > (Beyond fulfilling the story requirement of “young men die in
> > war”)
> >
> > I’m always interested in why people leave a job. Did they want to
> > move on, or were they fired?
>
>
>
> HI,  Neither of these two was fired.  Robert died to heighten the
> troubled relationship between Jean and |Edwin and to emphasise the
> losses to the Merchant Navy.  Jean died to point up the damage to
> familes during the war and not just those in uniform. Mothers were
> particularly exposed.  These helped to expose the various stresses and
> strains on civilians in wartime.  JF
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Afamilyatwar-list mailing list
> Afamilyatwar-list at baylor.edu
> https://mailman.baylor.edu/mailman/listinfo/afamilyatwar-list
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mailman.baylor.edu/pipermail/afamilyatwar-list/attachments/20180506/e15c942a/attachment.html>