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<blockquote data-quote="Kenny Coyote" data-source="post: 170871" data-attributes="member: 102">I wouldn&#039;t want any other characters in it because I liked Dallas the way it was. Adding more new characters would take away from the TV time they were able to give the actors I already liked.I would have changed the actor who played James Beaumont though. A far more capable actor, Paul Johansson, should have played James so people would have been able to take him seriously and believe he could be JR&#039;s son. With Johansson they would have had an actor who would have been able to play a young man who wanted to follow in JR&#039;s footsteps and to whom JR would have taught the business.&nbsp; It would have been much more interesting seeing JR teach the business to a son who would have appreciated the opportunity and would have been capable and ambitious enough to have learned it extremely well instead of having the kid run away and become a motorcycle mechanic, like they did.By the time TNT Dallas would come along, that son would have been very interesting to watch compete with John Ross as the successor to Ewing Oil, which I would never have had JR and Bobby lose, so they could have passed it on to their sons.&nbsp; That James I&#039;ve described, played by Paul Johnasson, would have had the acting ability and physical presence onscreen to have been very believable as serious competition for John Ross or Christopher.&nbsp; Of course to allow time to show the competition between them and have had the onscreen time that James would have deserved, they would have had no time for the Ramos family storyline. I don&#039;t see any downside to that trade-off.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kenny Coyote, post: 170871, member: 102"] I wouldn't want any other characters in it because I liked Dallas the way it was. Adding more new characters would take away from the TV time they were able to give the actors I already liked. I would have changed the actor who played James Beaumont though. A far more capable actor, Paul Johansson, should have played James so people would have been able to take him seriously and believe he could be JR's son. With Johansson they would have had an actor who would have been able to play a young man who wanted to follow in JR's footsteps and to whom JR would have taught the business. It would have been much more interesting seeing JR teach the business to a son who would have appreciated the opportunity and would have been capable and ambitious enough to have learned it extremely well instead of having the kid run away and become a motorcycle mechanic, like they did. By the time TNT Dallas would come along, that son would have been very interesting to watch compete with John Ross as the successor to Ewing Oil, which I would never have had JR and Bobby lose, so they could have passed it on to their sons. That James I've described, played by Paul Johnasson, would have had the acting ability and physical presence onscreen to have been very believable as serious competition for John Ross or Christopher. Of course to allow time to show the competition between them and have had the onscreen time that James would have deserved, they would have had no time for the Ramos family storyline. I don't see any downside to that trade-off. [/QUOTE]

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