Warning: This article contains spoilers about the season 5 holiday episodes ofVirgin River.
Mel has some daddy issues.
Mel is disheartened, but Breckenridge says the rebuff is not entirely a shock either.
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“He’d never tried to find her in the past.
But the fact that he blatantly lied, it was a little bit harder than she thought.”
“We were in the realm of Christmas spirit,” Breckenridge says.
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“We wanted to maintain a coziness and a lightness to the characters and what they were dealing with.
“She came into it feeling that connection with her mother.
It was a win-win situation for her to bring this man into her life.”
Breckenridge reveals that the cast enjoyed speculating just as much as audiences.
“Everyone thought it was Doc,” she says.
“I was like, ‘That’s too obvious.’
Bert we thought would be fun.
Nick was another funny idea.”
Smith admits they mulled every option before arriving at the decision to introduce a new character.
“We considered all the possibilities, Doc being the most obvious one,” he notes.
“But Doc is already a surrogate father to her.
Though, Mel might end up having more dads than she knows what to do with.
“It’s going to be a little strange,” she says.
“Everett says, ‘There’s something I need to tell you.’
As long as Everett isn’t also secretly Jack’s dad, we think Mel can handle it.
