Season 7 Olivia was a whole different Olivia

[jason88cubss]

One, the hairstyle change, it didn't look bad at all, it looked great, it just didn't come off as Olivia too me.

She seemed so much calmer and not a strict also, this is the same Olivia who was so against John Boy doing a dance marathon?

I;m not saying the character turned bad, but it was just a whole different Olivia I felt then what we had been seeing.

I know Michael Learned left that season so I don't know if maybe she was just bored and disinterested and going through the motions and they didn't have anything for her?

Just the change we saw from her was very drastic.

[pinkbaker07]

We all change as we get older. She also sipped champagne when John built the gazebo, something season 1 Olivia would never do.

I think she mellowed a bit for lack of better word. Also, the depression was coming to an end or over so that would lift anybody. 😁

[Easton]

From what I remember reading in this forum, Michael wanted to be written out of the show (tuberculosis) but she was still obligate to do (I believe) 8 more episodes.

(I may be wrong.)

[jason88cubss]

I think it was episode 16 she left in

Yes she may have mellowed but , I don't know, she just seemed like a toally different person