My first few watch throughs I preferred Dianne to Rebecca. In terms of characters only, I still do. But the moment I realized that the Rebecca era was better than the Dianne era was when in one episode (Sorry I don't recall which one) Dianne had something like 8 minutes of just her talking. It wasn't even interesting or connected to anything else. There are far too many good characters in this show to waste 1/3 the run time on just one of them like that. It is the interaction between these characters that made Cheers a classic. Making room for that was absolutely the right decision.
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My first few watch throughs I preferred Dianne to Rebecca. In terms of characters only, I still do. But the moment I realized that the Rebecca era was better than the Dianne era was when in one episode (Sorry I don't recall which one) Dianne had something like 8 minutes of just her talking. It wasn't even interesting or connected to anything else. There are far too many good characters in this show to waste 1/3 the run time on just one of them like that. It is the interaction between these characters that made Cheers a classic. Making room for that was absolutely the right decision.