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Message: <blockquote data-quote="stevew" data-source="post: 175442" data-attributes="member: 130">Not exactly.  Unpredictable events yes.  Unpredictable characters no.  The first builds the drama (even with minor excursions from reality - too big a jump from reality and plausibility issues become annoying to me).  The second rips apart the drama, if not handled correctly.  When I feel like I “get” (not agree or disagree or even like or dislike) a character, I feel drawn into the drama.  Sure something might happen that’s unexpected, I don’t know the person through and through.  Sure people change, and that’s the best in drama, but we see why.  But when you feel you “get” a character and then the writing leads you to question what the hell just happened, then doesn’t even bother to explain it, that’s not fun, it’s annoying, to me anyway.  So maybe for viewers of TNT who didn’t watched Dallas, all was good as to them the characters were developing from scratch.  They weren’t for me.  Cliff wasn’t just insane to me, he was a lot more so what the hell happened?  More annoying then still talking about drilling on Southfork as if some environmental crisis loomed.   For the later I can suspend reality, I guess. For the first I need development, other wise I stop caring about the characters.  Then I stop caring about the show.</blockquote>

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