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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Crimson" data-source="post: 273061" data-attributes="member: 5079">Cliff as a poor, scrappy underdog had been done for, what?, 5 to 6 seasons at that point.   Most shows don't even last that long.    Giving Cliff resources and a family behind him to equal the Ewings was a necessary change of pace to break repetition.  I find it odd though that a show that centered on a family feud never fully embraced that feud.  It was basically just JR and Cliff, with other family members occasionally dipping in a toe and then backing away.   For a show that ran 13 seasons, they could have done one all-in, every-one-involved season of feuding.  When Rebecca got fired up, it seemed like the ideal start to that situation; but then they killed her and turned Katherine's resentment of Cliff into a full blown hatred.</blockquote>