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<blockquote data-quote="Jabari Lamar" data-source="post: 290778" data-attributes="member: 2208">I&#039;m with you in principle. If you have a situation where because of one actor you&#039;re writing out a character, and thus that means you need to write off another character who&#039;s connected to that character plot-wise, even if that other actor doesn&#039;t want to leave, so be it. That&#039;s just the way the business works, whether it&#039;s &quot;fair&quot; or not. In this case, since Clayton is not a Ewing, it&#039;s not like you could kill off Miss Ellie and have Clayton continue living at Southfork as a widower. Most logically he had to leave to, such as they eventually did in later seasons, when BBG left again, although they found ways to bring Clayton back a couple of times.But still, as I said earlier in this thread, I think you&#039;re looking back with the wisdom of decades of hindsight. Sure it&#039;s easy to look back at the failure of the recast of Miss Ellie and say they shouldn&#039;t have even tried, but I can understand why, at the time, it seemed like the best option going forward. They&#039;d already lost Jock, but wanted to keep a parental figure in the Ewing family, someone who could step in to restrain both J.R. and Bobby when necessary. I get it. And as beloved on set as BBG was, I can see why they didn&#039;t think she was so irreplaceable. And getting a high profile actress like Donna Reed to take over the role probably seemed like a real coupe at the time. It could have worked.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jabari Lamar, post: 290778, member: 2208"] I'm with you in principle. If you have a situation where because of one actor you're writing out a character, and thus that means you need to write off another character who's connected to that character plot-wise, even if that other actor doesn't want to leave, so be it. That's just the way the business works, whether it's "fair" or not. In this case, since Clayton is not a Ewing, it's not like you could kill off Miss Ellie and have Clayton continue living at Southfork as a widower. Most logically he had to leave to, such as they eventually did in later seasons, when BBG left again, although they found ways to bring Clayton back a couple of times. But still, as I said earlier in this thread, I think you're looking back with the wisdom of decades of hindsight. Sure it's easy to look back at the failure of the recast of Miss Ellie and say they shouldn't have even tried, but I can understand why, at the time, it seemed like the best option going forward. They'd already lost Jock, but wanted to keep a parental figure in the Ewing family, someone who could step in to restrain both J.R. and Bobby when necessary. I get it. And as beloved on set as BBG was, I can see why they didn't think she was so irreplaceable. And getting a high profile actress like Donna Reed to take over the role probably seemed like a real coupe at the time. It[I] could have[/I] worked. [/QUOTE]

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