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Post by withay on Mar 26, 2011 16:46:07 GMT -5
Just to answer the question specifically posed to me, I don't think the writers planned it from the beginning. I watched from the beginning, obsessively, and feel the 16 thing was a late edition to the plot. However, I think they did look back at margie's blog and it impacted her characters end greatly. Another very early post references lois' reaction to their first meeting - she thought margene was too young and disapproved of the marriage, that to me solidifies the thought that margenes ending was influenced by those early posts, but not originally conceived storylines. I am a firm believer that Lois was a driving figure for the writers. Anything Lois said or did throughout the series is huge in the big picture of the big love story. Lois disapproving from the start says to me it is part of the end. Lois isn't always right, but the entire Hendrickson family is her life - and she was wise - and the matriarch trumps the patriarch in the end in both Sandy and Juniper Creek. You are absolutely right. The writers have acknowledged that it was while writing this last season that they decided to throw in the story about Margene lying about her age. I have to wonder if they did not at least have it in their subconcious though, since it caused so many things to make sense.
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Post by paleskinbeauty on Mar 27, 2011 12:33:49 GMT -5
I am watching season 1 right now an Margene IS acting like a very very young woman. Perhaps they revisited season 1 themselves.
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Post by withay on Mar 27, 2011 13:56:06 GMT -5
I am watching season 1 right now an Margene IS acting like a very very young woman. Perhaps they revisited season 1 themselves. That's another very good point! It may have been that when they looked back at Margene's actions in the previous seasons that they realized that making her younger than they originally said made more of her actions make sense. "Eureka!!! Let's make Margene be younger, not just act younger!"
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Post by firstwife on Mar 27, 2011 19:39:42 GMT -5
That was my thought, too, Withay. It wasn't so much a twist or new direction in the story line, but rather a way to explain away a lot of immature actions.
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Post by withay on Mar 27, 2011 22:31:53 GMT -5
That was my thought, too, Withay. It wasn't so much a twist or new direction in the story line, but rather a way to explain away a lot of immature actions. Yes, it wasn't that they (the writers) decided to make her younger; she had always been younger but even the writers did not realize it until this year!
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