COMMENTARY: Thoughts RE: Return of Shannen
I think Shannen should come back for the fans. It
takes more courage to come back and do an episode not
for your sake, but for the fans' sake, than it does to
just stay away and hold a grudge. I'm more familiar
with Alyssa than Shannen, so I can't say whether she's
the kind of person that would hold a grudge, but I
like to think that she's a bigger person than that.
I'd love to see Prue again - I dream about it like,
every day, but part of me thinks that that probably
won't ever happen b/c of the bad blood between
Spelling and Shannen.
Ok, I know I can shout this till I'm blue in the face
and some people will still tell me that I'm nuts but -
Alyssa.Did.Not.Get.Shannen.Fired. Face it - there was
tension between the 2 of them, yeah maybe they had
their occasional tiff, but that is not enough to get
Shannen fired. We're not hearing the entire story. I
truly believe that Shannen was ready and willing to
take more risks with the show & everyone was ignoring
her. Compare what happened with 90210 and what
happened with Charmed - Shannen was sick of the way
Brenda was being portrayed on 90210 & she wanted out,
so she did what she could do leave - she rebelled. But
with Charmed, she realized that rebelling was not the
best way to go, so she instead was just very unhappy
on the set. I'm not sure (and none of us can really
pin point) what happened behind the scenes but the
main fact is that it was NOT Alyssa's fault!! I know a
lot of people will say "Uh, yeah it was!" If you
watched Revealed w/Alyssa you'll notice that she said
there was never a big falling out & that there was
just tension - but not fighting. What I take from both
Alyssa and Shannen's comments is that Shannen is the
type of girl that likes to get disagreements out of
the way - she's confrontational & wants to get the bad
vibes out in the open and out of the way but Alyssa is
very non-confrontational & wants to let the dust
settle. When you put these 2 very drastic personality
traits next to each other there are very explosive
consequences. Basically, Shannen wanted to get
everything out in the open and out of the way, and
Alyssa doesn't like to fight so she'd rather not - &
that's what caused the tension. That makes more sense
than people saying that Alyssa went to Spelling and
said "her or me." (Which, BTW, DID NOT HAPPEN!!)
It's easy to find someone to blame when something you
don't understand happens. We all didn't understand why
this happened, and most of us are still hurting in
some way, but it is not fair to blame Alyssa. Even in
the slightest. She didn't cause this. She would never
wish someone to be fired and I know that you all know
that. If you really want to blame someone, blame Aaron
Spelling - he's the one that made the call. It's not
the writers' fault, nor the cast or crew, or any of
the producers. When it comes right down to it, Aaron
Spelling fired Shannen. Blame him.
None of us will ever know the entire story. I have a
feeling the only 3 people that know exactly what
happened are Alyssa, Holly, and Shannen. And maybe
it's best if it stayed that way. What happened with
Shannen is very very unfortunate, and I'm with all of
you when I say that I truly pray for her return every
single day, but it does no good to blame Alyssa for
all this. It's better to accept this whole ordeal as
an unfortunate incident and hang on to the hope that
someday, somehow, we'll see Prue again.
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