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Things change as time goes on. They may have originally not planned on using him much and brought in the actor as a brief guest star and then things changed in the writer’s room and they decided they needed much more of the character than the actor was willing to commit to. 🙁
I know they’ve said before they didn’t want to recast anyone but it sounds like this was an actor decision and they needed the character. It’s a bummer for sure but thankfully he was only in a little bit and isn’t a major player (as of yet). Other shows have done this as well when a character changes direction and they need something else or the actor isn’t interested/doesn’t have the time.
The show is an ongoing thing and constantly evolving. They don’t even have the whole season’s worth of scripts so they can’t get the actor around for a long time, even spacing out when the stuff even airs (and they didn’t plan to focus on RH last season as he was only needed for 1 episode) and the focus was seemingly on Neverland (and I think still will be).
It’s very sad and I’m curious to see who they put in the role as I liked Tom Ellis as RH, but I’m sure we’ll love whoever takes his place as we’re also still getting to know the character, whereas replacing others would be an issue. We saw RH so briefly that we didn’t get a chance to really care about the character all that much so he’s one of the few they’d be able to replace without much of an issue. Other characters got a lot more development even if they only had 1 episode and are far more memorable. I’m excited to have RH be in it more, though I wish Ellis had been able to continue. Better to do it now though then later on if we’re going to be seeing more of him and he becomes important.
I think he’ll have to be important if they are bothering to recast but feel like they have to have him in there. Otherwise I feel like if it were just for a few scenes they would have found a time to make it work. Doesn’t help my “please don’t be related to that awful awful person” wishes, but we’ll have to see how it plays out I guess. Bummer.
Was really hoping we’d just focus on NL and it wouldn’t be an issue but if he relates to Tamara then I’m all for getting her story out of the way pronto.
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