I hated him when he abandoned Maggie when she was pregnant and didn't know if the baby was Chase's or her sociopath rapist Jeff Wainwright. When he died I felt like "GOOD RIDDANCE!"
He also annoyed me when it came to Jacqueline's will. Jacqueline had left him and Richard, who was then believed to be Jacqueline's son and Chase's half-brother, a portion of her estate, but put the majority in trust. The idea was Chase was supposed to decide a year later if Richard was being a good brother or not. If Chase decided Richard had been a good brother, they would split the rest of the money, otherwise it would be donated to charity. Right before the deadline Chase is sent evidence that his mother was a Nazi collaborator, from somebody with an ulterior motive, so he decided that HE no longer wants the money and lets it be donated without following the original criteria. Okay, Richard was being nice to him cause he wanted the money, but he was trying.
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engle_james
8 years ago
I liked Chase at first but his self-righteousness was very off-putting. As for how horribly he treated Maggie in season 6, well, that was done because actor Robert Foxworth had let it be known to the producers he was leaving (he had planned to leave at the end of season 5 but changed his mind). To make his departure easier for the audience to take, they made Chase a totally unsympathetic character so that people wouldn't be so upset when he left AND to get the audience to root for Maggie and Richard to get together. It worked.
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radrobd
8 years ago
As for how horribly he treated Maggie in season 6, well, that was done because actor Robert Foxworth had let it be known to the producers he was leaving (he had planned to leave at the end of season 5 but changed his mind). To make his departure easier for the audience to take, they made Chase a totally unsympathetic character so that people wouldn't be so upset when he left AND to get the audience to root for Maggie and Richard to get together. It worked.
True, Chase was supposed to die in the season 5 finale after being shot. Producers lured him back for one more season by offering him more $$ and more opportunities to direct episodes.
However, producers tried to lure him back again later. The season 7 finale ended with Richard "dying" and Angela meeting a mysterious man in a chapel asking him whether he was ever going to tell Maggie he was alive. The question was: was it Chase or Richard? Producers actually tried to get Robert Foxworth to come back, but he said no.
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JaneThree
7 years ago
Hell, even the soap opera magazines at the time hated Chase. I think one wrote "Good riddance." Maggie and Chase had a horrible marriage even when we were supposed to believe it was good. Susan Sullivan and Robert Chase had anti-chemistry. But he wasn't bad with a few other women. Still, most of the time he was insufferable.
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PatrickS77
7 years ago
"I hated him when he abandoned Maggie when she was pregnant and didn't know if the baby was Chase's or her sociopath rapist Jeff Wainwright. When he died I felt like "GOOD RIDDANCE"
Yeah. When I saw it the first time, almost 30 years ago, I always liked Chase. But when I saw it again this year, I realized what a selfish, arrogant ass he had become after the Wainwright fiasco. I also didn't mind seeing him go.
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doubledragon-19441
7 years ago
And Chase is actually supposed to be the protagonist on the show.
Well, for the first few seasons anyway.
Honestly, could you really say what you would do if your woman was pregnant with another man's baby and told you she was going to keep it no matter what. I certainly don't disagree with Chase's stance on the issue.
The only thing his character did that I find utterly dumb was when Chase turned down $25 million dollars for refusing to be friends with Richard.
...for that kind of money, Adolph Hitler can be my best friend X_X
I hated when Chase and Maggie broke up. Their relationship seemed to be the only really solid one in the early years on the show. It wasn't based on money or alliance or anything like that. Chase's other girlfriends were just annoying.
One of my favorite scenes is when Chase hits lance with the pipe wrench. That was a great scene :)
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PatrickS77
7 years ago
"Honestly, could you really say what you would do if your woman was pregnant with another man's baby and told you she was going to keep it no matter what. I certainly don't disagree with Chase's stance on the issue."
That's why I said, he's a selfish ass. His wife got raped and all he thinks about is himself. The baby is innocent in all of this. And because of his stupid pride, he abandons the woman, he claims he loves (and quickly gets a new girlfriend). Maggie didn't choose to get raped.
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doubledragon-19441
7 years ago
I wouldn't expect Chase or anybody else to jump for joy at the prospect of her having a rapist's baby and keeping it
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PatrickS77
7 years ago
No. Of course not. But you stick with the woman, you claim you love and not dump her and get a new one. At the end of the day, he left her for nothing and the child turned out the be his.
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