<div dir="ltr"><div>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.<br><br></div>Sarah<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, May 6, 2018 at 4:27 PM, Scott Filderman via Afamilyatwar-list <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:afamilyatwar-list@baylor.edu" target="_blank">afamilyatwar-list@baylor.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>
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><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div></font></span><div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">Scott</font></span><span class=""><br><br><br><br><p class="m_-7655881836399336345yahoo-quoted-begin" style="font-size:15px;color:#715ffa;padding-top:15px;margin-top:0">On Sunday, May 6, 2018, 4:19 PM, <a href="mailto:john@johnfinch.com" target="_blank">john@johnfinch.com</a> wrote:</p><blockquote class="m_-7655881836399336345iosymail"><div dir="ltr">On 2018-05-06 16:12, Scott Filderman via Afamilyatwar-list wrote:<div class="m_-7655881836399336345yqt2964761772" id="m_-7655881836399336345yqtfd35079"><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="m_-7655881836399336345yqt2964761772" id="m_-7655881836399336345yqtfd83130"><br clear="none"></div></div><blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></span></div>
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