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<blockquote data-quote="AndyB2008" data-source="post: 416437" data-attributes="member: 26097">Mason&#039;s exit reminds me of what Shortland Street did to Steve Mills, especially seeing the exit episodes of the latter on YouTube. (Both actors were leaving, but you would have they would get a happy ending if either soap wanted to have them return in the future- like Mason going to Germany, Steve was hinted as moving to Australia with Carrie Burton.).Instead the characters get bumped off to enable the aftermath - probably seeing it now on Corrie, but on Shortland Street, Sam the ambulance driver, originally a happy-go-lucky character in the early days, developed a darker personality (as he lost his newlywed wife too) what with becoming a male escort and kidnapping babies, while Kirsty Knight and Stuart Neilson acted coldly against Jo Jordan (as it was Steve and Chris Warner arguing over her that lead to the crash). In addition, the death of Steve shocked the clinic staff.(Think it was the first they dispatched a popular character that way. None of the originals who left before got that).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="AndyB2008, post: 416437, member: 26097"] Mason's exit reminds me of what Shortland Street did to Steve Mills, especially seeing the exit episodes of the latter on YouTube. (Both actors were leaving, but you would have they would get a happy ending if either soap wanted to have them return in the future- like Mason going to Germany, Steve was hinted as moving to Australia with Carrie Burton.). Instead the characters get bumped off to enable the aftermath - probably seeing it now on Corrie, but on Shortland Street, Sam the ambulance driver, originally a happy-go-lucky character in the early days, developed a darker personality (as he lost his newlywed wife too) what with becoming a male escort and kidnapping babies, while Kirsty Knight and Stuart Neilson acted coldly against Jo Jordan (as it was Steve and Chris Warner arguing over her that lead to the crash). In addition, the death of Steve shocked the clinic staff. (Think it was the first they dispatched a popular character that way. None of the originals who left before got that). [/QUOTE]

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