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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Michael Torrance" data-source="post: 159458" data-attributes="member: 719">Maybe because I was not a hard-core fan of the original, but I did like TNT Dallas when it started, even with its stated flaws (the made-up history of the Hispanic family alongside the Ewings, the obvious disregard for basic details such as the annual ball's name etc.). It did feel like an updated version, and I did not expect it to be like the original or a replica of it. But I was turned off when it started veering away from the soap genre and also when Cliff Barnes became a cartoon villain ready to endanger blowing up his own daughter. I actually understand why someone who loved the original would not accept it and would see it as a parallel universe (Star Trek movies did the parallel universe stunt, to even more sacrilegious effect). But then again, the Lorimar Ewings already inhabited two parallel universes: one where Bobby did not die, and one where he did. Knots Landing took place in the latter.</blockquote>