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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jabari Lamar" data-source="post: 236773" data-attributes="member: 2208">The thing is I do understand why you and many others feel that way, both in regards to TNT ignoring the movies and the original series doing the dream explanation, but I'm willing to overlook things like this in fiction as long as the result is good. So I was fine with the dream season explanation because, in my opinion, it got the original series back track. And when I first head that Dallas TNT was going to ignore the movies, I was disappointed because I liked the status quo that J.R. Returns set-up (War of The Ewings was bad, but there was really nothing in it that needed to be referenced again anyway), but I was willing to give it a shot as long as the stories were good. But, in my opinion, it didn't work (sorry, I just can't accept the idea of J.R. wasting away for 20 years while that malignant little troll Barnes was off running Ewing Oil and getting richer).But the idea of picking and choosing what points from continuity you want to include is working in other franchises. Look at the Halloween movies, for example. They're started over twice with a full reboot in-between. First you had Halloween 1 & 2, then a separate film, and then the original story continued in 3 more films Halloween 4-6 (ending with a cliffhanger). Then in 1998 they do H20, where they just wiped out Halloween 4-6 and simply picked up 20 years after Halloween 2. Then H20 continued in Halloween Resurrection (which also ended in a cliffhanger) and then they said forget all that and brought in Rob Zombie to do a complete reboot. He did that and a sequel, and then 2 years ago they did a movie which ignores everything after the first Halloween, and made a new film taking place 40 years later. And that one turned out to be the biggest hit in the franchise, so far. With 2 sequels to that one planned.I also remember how Bryan Singer's Superman Returns film was meant to be a sequel to the first two Christopher Reeve Superman films, ignoring Superman 3 and Superman 4. Although I didn't like that one. But the point is. with the time passed and the fact that Dallas TNT didn't make that big of a cultural impact I think you could do a new Dallas that just picks up from the original series, with all new actors playing John Ross and Christopher, and whomever else you want to add, and make it work. But it would really need to stand on it's own now, with both Larry and Ken dead, and Patrick and Linda getting up there, you can't just count on the nostalgia factor. Well I linked to my old post from an previous thread of yours last year on the topic. That's still my basic idea for how to proceed, although I have had a change regarding my overall plot for season 2.</blockquote>

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