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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kenny Coyote" data-source="post: 141957" data-attributes="member: 102">Could you give one or two examples that give you that impression? When you refer to "these Ewings" are you referring to the Ewings that we grew to know and love in the 1980s or the Ewings whom she presented to us in TNT Dallas?She may have known what made those caricatures whom she created tick, but I never saw any indication that she ever knew or understood the characters who made Dallas the most successful dramatic television series of all time.That's bad enough but there was something else that she understood even less if that's possible - and it's the most important thing of all. Cidre never understood what made the original Dallas work and when I say "work" I mean the fans grabbed ahold of it and made Dallas become more than just a successful TV show; they made Dallas a phenomenon!Cidre couldn't put Dallas back together because she didn't have the blueprint. She didn't understand what made Dallas a phenomenon in the first place. The first night her project aired seven million people tuned in, ready to embrace what should have been the next chapter in the saga of the Ewings. The fans were there. They were ready. They just weren't given the show they tuned in to see.</blockquote>