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How insulting was the Matt Cantrell character fiasco?
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<blockquote data-quote="Taylor Bennett Jr." data-source="post: 340396" data-attributes="member: 2740"><p>it didn't derail the show or anything, but why mess with something that was simple and symmetrical and perfect for establishing the premise of the show? All they got out of it was two middling quasi-Ewings and a half-season of ultimately anticlimactic "will the Ewing Brothers lose Ewing Oil?" storyline. When we have Donna Reed exclaiming not all that convincingly, "Why of course! That's Jason!" or something like that, it's clear the show's not quite there in the same way as the previous couple of seasons.</p><p></p><p>Did Cliff end up with a chunk of Ewing Oil via one of Jamie's many deaths? I don't remember. It also pushed Jock firmly in the direction of sainthood, which I thought made him less interesting, [USER=22]@James from London[/USER]'s "the two sides of Jock" theory notwithstanding.</p><p></p><p>Hutch McKinney as Pam's biological father is kind of in the same category for me. Originally meant to be the season's cliffhanger, its thunder was largely stolen by JR's shooting, and the whole thing was barely mentioned after that. I guess it served to set the stage for Rebecca and make Pam having a biological child a possibility again, but they didn't have to diminish the <em>Digger's Daughter</em> premise to do that, I think.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/fyVPTEz.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="https://i.imgur.com/PWevTlW.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="https://i.imgur.com/jvThiqQ.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p>The closed-captioners were criminally negligent in omitting 'great' from the Guzzler's line - "if it's not my great body you're after". Note what's missing from Pam's rebuke: a denial of said greatness!</p><p></p><p>But more seriously, I thought Cantrell was one of the more retroactively plausible "Pam's dream" aspects of that season. It's totally dreamlike to repurpose an old memory (Bobby's old college pal, who happened to come on to her) into something more esoteric and titillating - a chiseled, bare-chested adventurer mining for emeralds in far-off lands in Bobby's memory. The great Dr. Ellby would have had a field day with that one!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Taylor Bennett Jr., post: 340396, member: 2740"] it didn't derail the show or anything, but why mess with something that was simple and symmetrical and perfect for establishing the premise of the show? All they got out of it was two middling quasi-Ewings and a half-season of ultimately anticlimactic "will the Ewing Brothers lose Ewing Oil?" storyline. When we have Donna Reed exclaiming not all that convincingly, "Why of course! That's Jason!" or something like that, it's clear the show's not quite there in the same way as the previous couple of seasons. Did Cliff end up with a chunk of Ewing Oil via one of Jamie's many deaths? I don't remember. It also pushed Jock firmly in the direction of sainthood, which I thought made him less interesting, [USER=22]@James from London[/USER]'s "the two sides of Jock" theory notwithstanding. Hutch McKinney as Pam's biological father is kind of in the same category for me. Originally meant to be the season's cliffhanger, its thunder was largely stolen by JR's shooting, and the whole thing was barely mentioned after that. I guess it served to set the stage for Rebecca and make Pam having a biological child a possibility again, but they didn't have to diminish the [I]Digger's Daughter[/I] premise to do that, I think. [IMG]https://i.imgur.com/fyVPTEz.png[/IMG][IMG]https://i.imgur.com/PWevTlW.png[/IMG][IMG]https://i.imgur.com/jvThiqQ.png[/IMG] The closed-captioners were criminally negligent in omitting 'great' from the Guzzler's line - "if it's not my great body you're after". Note what's missing from Pam's rebuke: a denial of said greatness! But more seriously, I thought Cantrell was one of the more retroactively plausible "Pam's dream" aspects of that season. It's totally dreamlike to repurpose an old memory (Bobby's old college pal, who happened to come on to her) into something more esoteric and titillating - a chiseled, bare-chested adventurer mining for emeralds in far-off lands in Bobby's memory. The great Dr. Ellby would have had a field day with that one! [/QUOTE]
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