From our vantage point here at TVWriter™, it sometimes looks as though the more TV execs, producers, writers et al learn about their subjects and their viewers, the more they start needing to learn. Case in point:
by Princess Weekes
It started with Susie Carmichael.
Like most children of the ’90s, I was obsessed with Rugrats and dragged my mother to see both feature lengths films in theaters. Now, I wasn’t a huge fan of Susie; she was too perfect, and although I didn’t realize it at the time, too manufactured. I much preferred the volatile and antagonistic Angelica. However, I remember sitting in the theater wondering, “Why isn’t Susie in the movie?”