User blog comment:UFO Editor/Pictures, pictures and more pictures!/@comment-392210-20110109235720

I didn't wanna reply to the previous discussion about vixens Edie and Renee, because there already too many comments on it, so this could start a new row. :P

Renee does have a heart. She cares genuinely about Lynette and Tom, and about her new friends on the lane. She doesn't want to be left all alone like she was when her marriage to Doug ended. The ladies are having a positive influence on her, like they did on Gabrielle when she first moved onto the lane in 2003.

Nonetheless, she's such a bitch it's awesome. The way she delivers those bitchy zings is priceless. Like when she was mad at Susan for making a good impression on their first client in 7.07... or when she took an invitation away from Allison's hands and so bluntly said "No."... or all the back and forth between her and Lynette in the season premiere. Renee is awesome. And it's so refreshing to have a new housewife not associated to the mystery. People complain that she has no real purpose being on the show. What purpose did Edie have in season one, other than being all vixen-y and rival-y? At least Renee's ratio of appearances is much better, so we can be delighted by her quips every week. It doesn't hurt that Vanessa Williams is beautiful and very talented either.

As for Edie, I love her as much as I love the four leading ladies and the narrator, and it'll always stay that way. To me, she'll always be one of the stars. I can't forgive Marc Cherry for killing her off out of spite towards Nicollette Sheridan (though I guess we'll never be really sure if that was the case), but I love Renee a lot too. She's a good thing that came out of a horrible thing. So we just have to cope and settle for now.