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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Miss Texas 1967" data-source="post: 176412" data-attributes="member: 36">It was so unnatural too how they started off. The Ramos family did not need to be shoehorned into the history of the Ewings like they were. They messed up from the very beginning with Elena and kept going with Drew, Carmen and the Papa Ramos/JR land thing.They had enough original characters to pick and choose where they focused but instead of picking and choosing from them anytime they wanted to "reveal" another part of history they instead invented something else. It might be acceptable if there was no original show to cast your eyes back on, but there is and it was continuously silly and frustrating. How did they bring Cally back who actually has a child with JR yet when it came time to reveal JR's other child besides John Ross (and James) they decided to go the new character route. Why bring Ray back without mentioning what's going on with him? Were he and Jenna still married and therefore he still Lucas' father figure? Or Margaret? Or what about Lucy? No, we got the Ramos family, the Rylands (I can sort of accept they were there because of Ann, but having their own plot was ehh for me) and the group of randoms that came with Nicholas. They did try sometimes to bring back older characters, but the Hunter McKay's of the world were of less interest to the original audience than someone we actually remembered and had been wondering about.I really think "Dallas" was secondary to "the CC show", what was written was written and the Ewing stuff was added in to pad out the existing plots rather than the other way around.</blockquote>

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