Helen wrote: <I recall reading something about Chris Boucher admitting and explaining why some characters(actors) got all the good lines. With so little time for shooting, they couldn't do a lot of reshoots. Some actors delivered their lines word for word. Others did not. Naturally, the writers began to skew the scripts more and more to the people who would give the line as written. I believe that Paul Jackson>

David Jackson, actually, :-) but the point is correct.

<was one of the ones not happy with the amount and quality of his lines. Logic suggests (but does not dictate), that writer and script editor were less than happy with his precision.>

Yes, both of these bits - the fact that Chris said he did give more and better lines to the actors who stuck to what he wrote, *and* the story about David Jackson pointing out how few lines he got on one script - are on the same 'Blake's Back' tape, close enough together that one can suspect they're connected in his view <veg>. But it does appear that he at least ran out of ideas on what to *do* with Gan ...

It's something of a vicious circle, isn't it? Some characters get the better lines early on, so they become more interesting, so the later writers are more interested in them and keep giving them the better lines ... _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.