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<blockquote data-quote="Kenny Coyote" data-source="post: 173886" data-attributes="member: 102">I just did two days ago. If you happened to miss it, it&#039;s the third post in this thread. No, I don&#039;t need to see Knot&#039;s Landing to get &quot;the full story.&quot; I&#039;ve watched all of Dallas and that is the full story of that show. It&#039;s a Dallas forum. They have a Knots Landing forum. They even have a TNT Dallas forum and even in that show, where the intent was to continue Dallas, they still couldn&#039;t get the story of what happened on Dallas accurate! They had all sorts of mistakes in that regarding &quot;what the full story is.&quot; If someone that having some of the original people involved in it would guarantee the show be accurate in how they described what had already happened in Dallas, they&#039;d have been wrong.Multitudes of posters have commented about how TNT Dallas didn&#039;t even get the characters right. That the personalities of the other characters were distorted, or caricatures of what they had been on the original. That they did that to the character of Cliff to where Cliff was unrecognizable.Different shows have different visions for characters and what they should to tell the story they want to tell. I can understand why they would have felt it necessary to portray Gary in a different way. I really can. It wouldn&#039;t be marketable to base a show on a guy who is an alcoholic who drank himself so silly that he would black out for weeks at a time and would wake up having been beaten and couldn&#039;t even remember who did it. A character who was a compulsive gambler who gambled all his money away over and over again. A man with such a childlike fear of responsibility and work that his M.O. was to just run away from it. A guy who got a 15 year old girl pregnant, and didn&#039;t even stick around to raise his daughter. Valene said JR &quot;took&quot; Lucy from her. Gary didn&#039;t stop that from happening. He knew where his daughter was - at Southfork. He didn&#039;t have the wherewithal to go to Southfork and talk to his parents, demand he get his daughter back so he and Valene&nbsp; could raise her. That character is not marketable as the lead of a TV series. So I understand why they&#039;d want to change the character and make him into someone who you described as a man who &quot;thinks outside the box way too much, and is very complex&quot;, someone who could be viewed as being a threat to his brothers if he ever decided he wanted to work there, and if Jock ever wanted to let him have any control over how his company was run. By changing the character to where he&#039;s who you described, that would give people a motivation to watch Knots Landing because then their lead character is marketable. Then he&#039;s a capable enough man to where there would be an audience for a show about him.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kenny Coyote, post: 173886, member: 102"] I just did two days ago. If you happened to miss it, it's the third post in this thread. No, I don't need to see Knot's Landing to get "the full story." I've watched all of Dallas and that is the full story of that show. It's a Dallas forum. They have a Knots Landing forum. They even have a TNT Dallas forum and even in that show, where the intent was to continue Dallas, they still couldn't get the story of what happened on Dallas accurate! They had all sorts of mistakes in that regarding "what the full story is." If someone that having some of the original people involved in it would guarantee the show be accurate in how they described what had already happened in Dallas, they'd have been wrong. Multitudes of posters have commented about how TNT Dallas didn't even get the characters right. That the personalities of the other characters were distorted, or caricatures of what they had been on the original. That they did that to the character of Cliff to where Cliff was unrecognizable. Different shows have different visions for characters and what they should to tell the story they want to tell. I can understand why they would have felt it necessary to portray Gary in a different way. I really can. It wouldn't be marketable to base a show on a guy who is an alcoholic who drank himself so silly that he would black out for weeks at a time and would wake up having been beaten and couldn't even remember who did it. A character who was a compulsive gambler who gambled all his money away over and over again. A man with such a childlike fear of responsibility and work that his M.O. was to just run away from it. A guy who got a 15 year old girl pregnant, and didn't even stick around to raise his daughter. Valene said JR "took" Lucy from her. Gary didn't stop that from happening. He knew where his daughter was - at Southfork. He didn't have the wherewithal to go to Southfork and talk to his parents, demand he get his daughter back so he and Valene could raise her. That character is not marketable as the lead of a TV series. So I understand why they'd want to change the character and make him into someone who you described as a man who "thinks outside the box way too much, and is very complex", someone who could be viewed as being a threat to his brothers if he ever decided he wanted to work there, and if Jock ever wanted to let him have any control over how his company was run. By changing the character to where he's who you described, that would give people a motivation to watch Knots Landing because then their lead character is marketable. Then he's a capable enough man to where there would be an audience for a show about him. [/QUOTE]

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