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I understand why the “characters” were treated as they were; it all makes dramatic sense as well as being true to reality.<div><br></div><div>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!</div><div><br></div><div>Again, your writing is beautiful. I don’t believe there’s another word to describe it.</div><div><br></div><div>Scott<br><br><br><br><p class="yahoo-quoted-begin" style="font-size: 15px; color: #715FFA; padding-top: 15px; margin-top: 0">On Sunday, May 6, 2018, 4:19 PM, john@johnfinch.com wrote:</p><blockquote class="iosymail"><div dir="ltr">On 2018-05-06 16:12, Scott Filderman via Afamilyatwar-list wrote:<div class="yqt2964761772" id="yqtfd35079"><br clear="none">> Surely someone has asked this before but here goes....<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> As Jean Ashton’s death neatly coincides with the end of the Second<br clear="none">> Series, I wonder if the actress (really wonderful) wanted off the<br clear="none">> series or had signed on for only so long or what the deal was. Major<br clear="none">> characters leaving a Series always have a backstory. Patrick Troughton<br clear="none">> had enough of Doctor Who after 3 years, so he morphed into Jon<br clear="none">> Pertwee....<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> And what about David Dixon? A very interesting young actor who<br clear="none">> apparently had a very attenuated career. Was he “written off”<br clear="none">> because he wasn’t interested or why was his character killed?<br clear="none">> (Beyond fulfilling the story requirement of “young men die in<br clear="none">> war”)<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> I’m always interested in why people leave a job. Did they want to<br clear="none">> move on, or were they fired?</div><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">HI, Neither of these two was fired. Robert died to heighten the <br clear="none">troubled relationship between Jean and |Edwin and to emphasise the <br clear="none">losses to the Merchant Navy. Jean died to point up the damage to <br clear="none">familes during the war and not just those in uniform. Mothers were <br clear="none">particularly exposed. These helped to expose the various stresses and <br clear="none">strains on civilians in wartime. JF<div class="yqt2964761772" id="yqtfd83130"><br clear="none"></div></div><blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></div>
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