On Sep 24, 11:22 am, drunkbastard74 <[email protected]> wrote:
> Susan had the abortion, though, as you suggested, the writers never
> actually came out and said that. Again, a literary cheat to avoid
> controversy. Soften the edges -- nothing sharp must ever emerge from
> your TV screens.
Thanks for clarifying the plot for me. And you're right - the show had
a bit of an edge as the characters argued about the issue, but it was
too watered down.
> The actress who played Susan ended up getting pregnant and was written
> off the series for a season, which led to Spenser creator Robert
> Parker incorporating Susan's departure into his novels (in the TV
> series, she merely heads to San Francisco to "find herself," whereas
> the novels go down a much more interesting road), resulting in some of
> the best and most emotionally charged Spenser books ("A Savage Place"
> was superb -- the Lifetime MOW with the same name was heavily watered
> down for TV audiences).
Susan's departure in the books actually came before the TV series
premiered. Susan left at the beginning of "Valediction" (1984), and
the followup book "A Catskill Eagle" found Spenser rescuing her from a
very dangerous situation and returning her to Boston.
I missed the later Lifetime movies, and a couple of the Mantegna
movies too. I've read (or listened to the audio books) of every
Spenser novel (except 1978's "The Judas Goat," which for some reason
I've never gotten around to).
-Tim, a Spenser fanatic
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