I don't think it's selfish at all to "accuse" Melina of writing a Stella-centric episode. She did, and it was a morass of indefensible drivel that would have gotten a fanficcer called out as a blithering Suethor. It might've been fine if Stella's history had been left open-ended, or if Stella had remained Stella throughout, but the mystery of her parentage was wrapped up in a neat, heave-inducing package that required such fantastic leaps of credibility that a springbok would drop dead of exhaustion.
Her father was Papakota; her mother was his assistant. Mac just happens to be given a picture of her mother, because you know, Greek cops just have thirty-year-old pictures of car accident victims lying around. Stella discovers that the tomb of Alexander the Great is probably on her ancestral Greek lands. Her father dies in a gunfight, and cool-under-pressure Stella abandons all reason to sob while he dies the most cliched death ever. Ever the Mary Sue, she re-inters priceless artifacts in the orchard with the brave declaration that "these belong to Greece."
first than all, Professor P. wasn't Stella's father. He said, before he died in her arms, he had loved her mother but he wasn't
Knowing he was in love with her it would be natural to ask why (if he was Stella's father) he didn't marry her. Specially when they did have time to get marry before the accident.
I doubt any Greek family would accept their daughter to be a single mother when she could have marry her child's father!
There must be another powerful reason for her mother to rise her baby alone in Greece, facing all gossips and the ancient traditions about how a woman must behave
The story about the coin is something real Melina heard when she was a little one (and she was showed a coin if my memory is right). She explained that in some interview
So we still have an open story because we DON'T who her father is. Besides we know she found out she is half Italian. But her father is an interesting mystery
Personally i will look for Carmine's episode with beneplacit but what i have received from Melina writing her episode is something nobody else gave me so far
I had a deeply insatisfaction because we had great Stella episodes but never we had a single reference to her family.
Melina gave MANY PEOPLE the type of episode we wanted and we expected. Because that hole in Stella's story was filled wonderfully