Sherrie/Meghan Ory: Happy she's gone or not?

[layla]

It didnt' take very much work to find out, including what Jeff Roop (Drew) said in his interview, that Meghan Ory left the show b/c she wanted to pursue other things and the writers had to scamble to kill Sherrie off when they got back their funding for the show after a 3 month hiatus. I also know for a fact that the other things she was trying to pursue flopped; hard. The entire cast had to sign a contract for the season and she jumped through a couple of hoops to get out of it.

Question is: What do we as fans think? Can we blame her for ditching what she thought was a sinking ship of a show? Are we mad that she deserted what could have been a very interesting character and storyline? Or does everyone like how things went after she was gone? Maybe it was better with out her?

I personally think the writers scambled way too much to kill her off and part of me felt that episode wasn't as sad/gut wrenching as it should have been; esp for Drew. In fact, from Drew's reaction to everything and the fact that he was missing in the next episode, I thought that he had turned Sherrie, came back for her after they burried her, and ran off for a bit trying to help her adjust.

When I found out the truth and watched more of the episodes, I felt that there was a definite shock to the writers systems and they had to rethink a couple of things. It felt a bit disjointed at first, but after a bit I was getting use to Drew kind of dropping a little to the background in favor of the others and their stories. When they pushed him to the front, I was ready to see the whole Dillan thing take off......Again, what does everyone think?

I know that's alot, but I was thinking quite a bit about it after i saw the last episode....(besides the fact that the last episode drove me nuts!!! How could it end on that note?!j)

[layla]

I'd also like to mention that nothing else she was in (except maybe "Higher Ground") has a following like VH and I really can't remember anything else she was in or has been in lately....

[moonauthor]

Defiantly not happy I would have loved to see Sherry accept Drew as not only her lover/suitor/boyfriend but as a vampire so that wew could see him start to see himself as more than what he is but who he is.

[walterwynnchok]

I thought she was in "Decoys".

[stellacoulson]

Sad that Sherry died, but the shock of her demise made a unique and unexpected twist to the story, plus we get Dylan as a possible new love interest for Drew.

[Melissa Kane]

In many ways, I think her departure from the show helped the post-funding-break story lines in that it added that tragic lost love aspect to both the plots and Drew's own journey. It made him more well rounded than he has appeared to be in the earlier episodes, more emotion (and a chance for Jeff to stretch his acting muscles a little more), and gave him that wariness of getting close to Dillan. Perhaps the positive outcome was that it set about guiding Drew in particular toward the experiment's ultimate goal of attaining a high level humanity.

I have to say, though, Sherry spent so much time mooning around that Meghan developed her "staring dreamily into space" look very well. Hehe. I hope it served her well on other projects.

Just had a thought, I wonder if Drew was more attracted to whomever the occupant of that bed was rather than Sherry herself? Sorry, a silly thought. It made me giggle though.

Ohh, by the way, this is Meghan's entry on IMDB and she's actually done quite a lot since leaving VH, though as you right said, Leyla, none of them seem to have had the impact that Vampire High has on fans.

She was indeed in Decoys, Walter. Well remembered!

Lissa.