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<blockquote data-quote="the-lost-son" data-source="post: 350740" data-attributes="member: 672">With Katzman back they wanted &quot;to recreate the original Dallas formula again&quot;. That didn&#039;t leave much room though for deaf children/down syndrome etc. I liked Donna&#039;s breakdown at the fireplace. But Dallas always worked best when several storylines came together. This plot felt rather isolated. Additionally the women took more of a backseat in S9 /DVD10). The problem with Jack/Jenna was always that we didn&#039;t know anything about them. I wish they gave us some &quot;ghosts of the pasts&quot;, some secret like they did with Clayton and his Jessica-storyline (which I loved). It&#039;s hard to invest in character you don&#039;t know anything about. The JR we knew would try everything to blackmail Jack for his 10% of EwingOil and Jamie for some shares of BarnesWentworth.Having Jack/Jamie/Cliff/Pam at Barnes Wentworth could have been some counterpart for the Ewings for example.The same lack of background information can be stated about Donna though. All we know is that she was married to Sam Culver, is married to Ray and that she&#039;s an upright person. I would have loved for JR to find some secret of her or her family to blackmail her into helping him to keep EwingOil out of the state department&#039;s investigations. But they were relying on the male characters and decided to give Ray some screen time ill-matching him with Jenna (which was out of character for all involved). PD&#039;s return was expensive, budget cuts necessary. Additionally like for Charlene Tilton they did not know what to write for Susan Howard. (She was not the only one criticizing the dream solution.)I&#039;m no huge fan of S9(DVD10)&nbsp; but with the great Wes Parmalee storyline and especially with an intact cast I think Barbara Curran was right to describe this season as &quot;the return to camelot&quot;.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="the-lost-son, post: 350740, member: 672"] With Katzman back they wanted "to recreate the original Dallas formula again". That didn't leave much room though for deaf children/down syndrome etc. I liked Donna's breakdown at the fireplace. But Dallas always worked best when several storylines came together. This plot felt rather isolated. Additionally the women took more of a backseat in S9 /DVD10). The problem with Jack/Jenna was always that we didn't know anything about them. I wish they gave us some "ghosts of the pasts", some secret like they did with Clayton and his Jessica-storyline (which I loved). It's hard to invest in character you don't know anything about. The JR we knew would try everything to blackmail Jack for his 10% of EwingOil and Jamie for some shares of BarnesWentworth. Having Jack/Jamie/Cliff/Pam at Barnes Wentworth could have been some counterpart for the Ewings for example. The same lack of background information can be stated about Donna though. All we know is that she was married to Sam Culver, is married to Ray and that she's an upright person. I would have loved for JR to find some secret of her or her family to blackmail her into helping him to keep EwingOil out of the state department's investigations. But they were relying on the male characters and decided to give Ray some screen time ill-matching him with Jenna (which was out of character for all involved). PD's return was expensive, budget cuts necessary. Additionally like for Charlene Tilton they did not know what to write for Susan Howard. (She was not the only one criticizing the dream solution.) I'm no huge fan of S9(DVD10) but with the great Wes Parmalee storyline and especially with an intact cast I think Barbara Curran was right to describe this season as "the return to camelot". [/QUOTE]

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