Killing poor Donna Reed one final time

[Snarky Oracle!]

Who knows about the legal issues regarding things like this, but with digital imagery today, someone could morph in BBG's image (and even her voice) to Donna Reed's scenes.

Who's for this??

As a conciliatory gesture, we can have Barbara paint Donna's head on Carlotta's image in VERTIGO.

 

[Matthew Blaisdel]

You naughty Snarky!

 

[Rove]

Gee, I'm not sure. After what Disney did with Princess Leia in one of the final scenes of Rogue One I'm just not sure if CGI is quite there yet.

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I'm sure Disney were going for the surprise element here but the scene gave me the creeps, probably not the desired effect they were hoping for. On the other hand if I had the time, the know-how, an exceptionally good software program and all powerful computer I'd love to erase Jamie Ewing from memory

Didn't someone do something similar by removing Jar Jar Binks from Star Wars, the Phantom Menace and most agreed the movie was better without the character?

 

[Snarky Oracle!]

I'd love to erase Jamie Ewing from memory

You've always hated Jenilee....

 

[Luke_Krebbs_Ewing]

It wasn't Donna's fault that Miss Ellie was recast.

It should not have happened in the first place.

I liked her performance as Miss Ellie. She did not deserve the underhand treatment she got from Lorimar & she was quite right to sue them when they dropped her from the show.

Let's just leave well alone.

 

[Snarky Oracle!]

"That damnable Donna Reed -- now we can take her out digitally. There's your computerized post production process right there..!"

 

[Mustard]

CGI Peter Cushing in Rogue One was good. The brief CGI scene with Carrie Fisher in her early 20s was less successful. I think this was because Cushing's likeness was CGI superimposed on a real actor doing the scenes, while Fisher's was just complete CGI.

 

[Richard Channing]

Well if this really were possible then perhaps as a way to make it up to Donna for what happened the first time round she could posthumously be cast as Pam in season 11. It's not inconceivable that Pam, after having undergone extensive surgery, was left looking like Donna Reed. Pam fans would be happy, Donna Reed fans would be happy, it's win win. She could resume happily married life with Bobby and finally carry that baby to full term.

 

[Luke_Krebbs_Ewing]

Well if this really were possible then perhaps as a way to make it up to Donna for what happened the first time round she could posthumously be cast as Pam in season 11. It's not inconceivable that Pam, after having undergone extensive surgery, was left looking like Donna Reed. Pam fans would be happy, Donna Reed fans would be happy, it's win win. She could resume happily married life with Bobby and finally carry that baby to full term.

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Eh, you need to go back on your medication! It's obviously not strong enough.

 

[Snarky Oracle!]

Well, they've already done this...

 

[Snarky Oracle!]

Instead of digitally replacing Reed's head with Bel Geddes' -- as that could get into some really sticky union issues -- why not replace references to "Miss Ellie" with "Caroline," Jenna's aunt flown in for her niece's wedding to Bobby?. So when this outsider, Aunt Caroline, presumptuously takes Jock's portrait down from the living room wall, someone can loop in a line for JR like, "That woman's moving Daddy's picture around, and now she's set her sights on my step-daddy -- hell, she's already moved into Mama's bedroom and she just got here! I want her out of here as soon as possible!"

Problem solved.

 

[Snarky Oracle!]

"But, Swellin''--- did she really look all that much like me...??"

 

[Luke_Krebbs_Ewing]

"But, Swellin''--- did she really look all that much like me...??"

"Yes she did but I'm really not an alcoholic!"

"Oh Sue Ellen, yes you are and you're as blind as a bat as well!!"

 

[Toni]

Breaking News: This reporter has found out that TNT Dallas showrunner (aka The Unnamed) didn´t really watch the original Dallas, she did watch an alternate version of the show with only one Miss Ellie, played by Donna Reed. And yes, here Miss Ellie does swim in the pool often! And she did other things BBG wouldn´t dare to!

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[Luke_Krebbs_Ewing]

Well if this really were possible then perhaps as a way to make it up to Donna for what happened the first time round she could posthumously be cast as Pam in season 11. It's not inconceivable that Pam, after having undergone extensive surgery, was left looking like Donna Reed. Pam fans would be happy, Donna Reed fans would be happy, it's win win. She could resume happily married life with Bobby and finally carry that baby to full term.

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It would only work if it was a Halloween episode and she got on her broomstick and flew off at the end!

 

[Taylor Bennett Jr.]

Breaking News: This reporter has found out that TNT Dallas showrunner (aka The Unnamed) didn´t really watch the original Dallas, she did watch an alternate version of the show with only one Miss Ellie, played by Donna Reed. And yes, here Miss Ellie does swim in the pool often! And she did other things BBG wouldn´t dare to!

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just think what additional impact this already powerful early-series scene would have had if, instead of just a verbal rebuke, they'd had Miss Ellie slide down the bannister posterior-first and physically take out a drunken Sue Ellen

 

[Chris2]

Donna Reed should have played Donna Krebbs. It is the pinnacle of TV acting success to play a role that uses the actor’s first name (Andy Griffith as Andy Taylor, Bob Newhart as Bob Hartley, Lucille Ball as Lucy Ricardo Carmichael Carter, Shirley Jones as Shirley Partridge, Donna Reed as Donna Stone, etc).

 

[Luke_Krebbs_Ewing]

Donna Reed should have played Donna Krebbs. It is the pinnacle of TV acting success to play a role that uses the actor’s first name (Andy Griffith as Andy Taylor, Bob Newhart as Bob Hartley, Lucille Ball as Lucy Ricardo Carmichael Carter, Shirley Jones as Shirley Partridge, Donna Reed as Donna Stone, etc).

No thanks. Susan Howard was absolutely perfect as Donna Culver Krebbs.

Maybe she could've played Darius the horse instead.

 

[Taylor Bennett Jr.]

Donna Reed should have played Donna Krebbs. It is the pinnacle of TV acting success to play a role that uses the actor’s first name (Andy Griffith as Andy Taylor, Bob Newhart as Bob Hartley, Lucille Ball as Lucy Ricardo Carmichael Carter, Shirley Jones as Shirley Partridge, Donna Reed as Donna Stone, etc).

I've long felt that instead of Jamie and Jack and Jason and all that retcon nonsense they should have introduced a mysterious Ewing cousin from New Jersey, Tony Ewing, played by Tony Danza