More speculation from The Raven. You may take all my speculations with a pinch of salt. They might well be true. This one quite most likely is exact.
Patricia McPherson's 'departure' took the producers by surprise. The script for Goliath was complete and ready for filming. Last-minute changes had to be made to replace Patricia. It's real bad form to give in to actresses whose agents demand more. A replacement was made with Rebecca Holden, a bit of a dolly-bird sort of along the lines of, well, Audrey Landers, that direction. But there wasn't any time to change the script to explain New Girl. April comes in as if the name "Bonnie" was just replaced with "April" hence no explanation given. The script Rebecca Holden was given is in all other ways exactly the same one Patricia McPherson would have had.
This first outing of Rebecca Holden in this key position falls flat miserably. There is no spark. There were friction aplenty with Bonnie, spontaneous combustion seemed imminent. A big mistake spoiled everything in that episode featuring K.A.R.R. when the two were allowed to gravitate together but sluggishly pulled apart by inept last bit of script in order to return to the obviously-needed tension that had to remain between the two.
Judging from here, it seems utterly doubtful that Rebecca could fill Patricia's shoes... er, sneakers?
Patricia McPherson's 'departure' took the producers by surprise. The script for Goliath was complete and ready for filming. Last-minute changes had to be made to replace Patricia. It's real bad form to give in to actresses whose agents demand more. A replacement was made with Rebecca Holden, a bit of a dolly-bird sort of along the lines of, well, Audrey Landers, that direction. But there wasn't any time to change the script to explain New Girl. April comes in as if the name "Bonnie" was just replaced with "April" hence no explanation given. The script Rebecca Holden was given is in all other ways exactly the same one Patricia McPherson would have had.
This first outing of Rebecca Holden in this key position falls flat miserably. There is no spark. There were friction aplenty with Bonnie, spontaneous combustion seemed imminent. A big mistake spoiled everything in that episode featuring K.A.R.R. when the two were allowed to gravitate together but sluggishly pulled apart by inept last bit of script in order to return to the obviously-needed tension that had to remain between the two.
Judging from here, it seems utterly doubtful that Rebecca could fill Patricia's shoes... er, sneakers?