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I wonder if Robin should have been kept instead of Vanessa?


I wonder if the show would have been different had Robin stayed on the show after season 1 and Vanessa was eliminated instead since she had a past history with Mark since they were child friends whereas Vanessa was more of an airhead.

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Well Vanessa was more like Hillary from Fresh Prince of Bel Air. I thought Vanessa was funny I'm glad they didn't get rid of her. I think they could have kept Robin but then we wouldn't have had Raven Symone character or Tyler who was Raven best friend on the show.

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Yeah they wanted to make the show more family orientated so they brought in Raven Symone's character and her mom. I think if they got rid of Vanessa instead it wouldn't have balanced out right with the Geneva character since they both would have been serious minded.

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The show wouldn't have been funny if you had two serious characters sometimes shows work best when you have that 1 airhead. Fresh Prince there was Hillary, Moesh there was Kim Parker, Smart Guy there was Mo, Full House Kimmy Gibbler, and etc. Imagine Genevea and Robin and then Mark, naw I think Vanessa was best to keep in the mix.

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They should have kept Robin and Vanessa and never fooled with the lineup bringing in Geneva. I don't even like that name.

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yeah every show in the 90's seemed to follow that dynamic. You need the joey tribbiani-like character that just doesn't get it to make for more funny situations. I thought it was strange on boy meets world when this character kept changing. by the end cory was suddenly the moron.
Anyways, Vanessa was hot, how could they cut her out?!

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Not sure how this would have panned out, but I feel if they wanted to make it more family-oriented they could have just made Robin "inherit" a relative's child and kept both women. That way Raven and her friend still could have joined the show. I preferred the show the way it was in the first season, but they could have and should have accommodated Dawnn Lewis.

I enjoyed the Vanessa character but Mark and Dawnn have great COMIC chemistry both being no strangers to that world, so that was a missed opportunity. In my opinion Saundra Quarterman is pretty, but no match for Dawnn Lewis when it comes to being funny.

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In the first season and last season when Vanessa and Mark got together, Vanessa wasn't an airhead. They only made her an airhead in the between seasons and I never understood why. I liked Vanessa in the series and glad they didn't get rid of her, but hated that they made her so ditzy in some of the seasons. It's the same thing they did to Eric in BMW, it just got old after a while. I am glad they did retcon that when Vanessa and Mark hooked up.

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