the delight of all the fans and then the writers just drop the ball with their story lines – there is so much they can do with these actors who made these characters come alive over the years. If Alice and Tom were still alive and on the show – I’m sure the writers wouldn’t know how to write long-term for them either…sad, Sad, sad, SAD, sad.
about Shane leaving because he may be coming back again periodically. It’s the same with Doug and Julie, they just pop up and then we don’t see them for a while again. Hopefully, we’ll be seeing Shane again sometime in the future.
I guess we’re just to assume that now that the Stefano caper is over, he went back to wherever it is he’s based (LA?).