(Also if you dislike mild profanity and, since I'm writing this to take my mind off some real-life bad news, possibly writing that does not make sense.)
J. H. Christ, people, I don't care if the actor DID want to leave the show. You killed off Nathan Stark?!? No, no, no!
I will admit, I came to the realization a few weeks ago that the whole Carter/Allison/Stark triangle was a little off, really: when the Stark character first appeared on the show, he was presented as a smug SOB who gets anything he wants. Seeing his wistful, lingering affection for Allison made the character more likable...with the problem, however, that if they got back together, he would again have been the smug SOB who gets anything he wants.
Still, they could have saved the character, even if the producers couldn't woo Ed Quinn back with a fleet of trucks carrying cash, puppies and cupcakes*. This is Eureka, for pete's sake! Someone getting in a science-lab accident and looking like a completely different person might not even make the gossip rounds at the Café Diem! It would, however, probably have given Allison some pause, so she and Carter could work out their issues, and given Stark a reason to evaluate his life and undergo some character development, so that the viewers' liking him doesn't perversely depend on the character being lovelorn.
A blaze of glory isn't everything...
*Maybe they should have tried that?
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