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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Frankenstein Underworld" data-source="post: 138919" data-attributes="member: 35">You seem to be implying that I wanted every character from the original to return, and that's not the case.  It was a next generation Dallas, yes.  So when episodes/seasons focused more on drug cartels, Ann's kangaroo trial and the Rylands, Nicholas and the Ramos family, etc., than John Ross, Christopher, and Pamela Rebecca, the next generation feel was lost.  Hell, they even killed off Christopher after season 3!  Bobby's son Lucas was never seen or mentioned, nor was Ray's daughter.  Yet we got several episodes all about Ann's daughter.Obviously you need new characters to interact with the Ewings and Barnes's, but they were often the focal point and not the periphery.  The show also seemed to have an identity problem.  Was it Breaking Bad?  24?  CSI: Dallas?  Original Dallas?  It tried to be everything to everybody, but it didn't quite work.  Cidre's "delicious" moments often took the place of organic character development.  Hence Cliff's logic-defying transformation and Pamela Rebecca's overdose.  She also admitted to writing backwards from her cliffhangers.  This is particularly noticeable during the Pamela-Sutter-is-actually-Pamela-Rebecca-reveal.  Of course, there was also the promise she made to preserve the continuity, which was just lip service.Again, I get that some people liked new Dallas just as it was and felt the new directions it went in were necessary.  Outside of a few scenes, it simply wasn't pure enough for my tastes.</blockquote>

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