Agreed! So many opportunities to get rid of Hope and she's still hanging on. UGH!!! Whoever came up with the Hope character should be fired. Hope is awful in every way - GO AWAY HOPE!!! Much better scenario would be to have knocked her off in the storm or the crash and then have Muriel and a few new women move to town and vie for his attention once he completes his sufficient "grieving" (although why he would miss Hope for a second requires some serious suspension of disbelief). She's horrid!!! Anyway, with Muriel and the new female characters you give more opportunities to older actresses and there is plenty of fodder for hijinks to ensue for a much more interesting storyline MINUS Hope. What once was a lovely word makes me cringe now thanks to that character.
