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<blockquote data-quote="Kenny Coyote" data-source="post: 172958" data-attributes="member: 102">Everything about her changed!&nbsp; The way she dressed, the way she spoke, and that has a jarring effect on the viewers. I think once you begin a series that has a beginning and an end you have to stick with the same actors. They could have continued without her by that time; the show was so successful, and they would have gotten less criticism. At the time it didn&#039;t bother me a lot because I&#039;d heard they had to replace her temporarily because she was having heart surgery (whether that was correct or incorrect) so I accepted as something they thought they just had to have until the original could return, but just waiting for her to return without recasting would have been better.Now if you&#039;re doing a continuation 50 years after the original and most of the original actors are dead or dying, you either have to have new actors or not continue with those characters&#039; stories. I&#039;d have to base this series on the premise that people understand that. I think the casting would have to be based on the approach that our priority is not to find people who look or act like copies of the original actors,; we&#039;re going to find the most talented and capable people we can get and if&nbsp; they don&#039;t resemble the original actors, are capable of bringing something interesting enough of their own to those roles that the audience will like it. I&#039;d rather the casting focus on finding actors with the ability to capture the interest of the audience while they&#039;re adding, to some degree, their own personalities to the role than find people who may look and sound a lot like the originals but lack the acting ability and the charisma of the actors they physically resemble.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kenny Coyote, post: 172958, member: 102"] Everything about her changed! The way she dressed, the way she spoke, and that has a jarring effect on the viewers. I think once you begin a series that has a beginning and an end you have to stick with the same actors. They could have continued without her by that time; the show was so successful, and they would have gotten less criticism. At the time it didn't bother me a lot because I'd heard they had to replace her temporarily because she was having heart surgery (whether that was correct or incorrect) so I accepted as something they thought they just had to have until the original could return, but just waiting for her to return without recasting would have been better. Now if you're doing a continuation 50 years after the original and most of the original actors are dead or dying, you either have to have new actors or not continue with those characters' stories. I'd have to base this series on the premise that people understand that. I think the casting would have to be based on the approach that our priority is not to find people who look or act like copies of the original actors,; we're going to find the most talented and capable people we can get and if they don't resemble the original actors, are capable of bringing something interesting enough of their own to those roles that the audience will like it. I'd rather the casting focus on finding actors with the ability to capture the interest of the audience while they're adding, to some degree, their own personalities to the role than find people who may look and sound a lot like the originals but lack the acting ability and the charisma of the actors they physically resemble. [/QUOTE]

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