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<blockquote data-quote="Snarky Oracle!" data-source="post: 339529" data-attributes="member: 57984">Some of the changes in Pam were, obviously, a result of changes in the narrative. But a lot of it was just because Victoria felt compelled to do it differently -- and sometimes it didn&#039;t completely work (and sometimes it very much did).And once her performance improved, they started writing to it. (Just as when Linda Evans&#039; performance began tanking on DYNASTY -- she was quite good in the first two seasons, believe it or not -- they essentially ceased writing for her).So it&#039;s, like, chicken-or-the-egg stuff. (I eat both).I still say re-casting core characters in primetime shows tends not to work. I still prefer Margaret Michaels as an imposter (perhaps even her first cameo when Cliff meets Pam and then, after he leaves, she discusses her upcoming death with the doctor). I didn&#039;t mind, and may have preferred, Pam&#039;s disappearance kept a bit of a mystery, but, sadly, it was a mystery the producers didn&#039;t find terribly mystifying -- and they barely wrote to it.I mean, it took nuDALLAS, deeply flawed though it was, 25 years later to really even address it! <img src="https://th.bing.com/th/id/R.38c466f287197c1354010547b72bcf77?rik=kt90mmeRZm6%2fLw&amp;pid=ImgRaw&amp;r=0" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 565px" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Snarky Oracle!, post: 339529, member: 57984"] Some of the changes in Pam were, obviously, a result of changes in the narrative. But a lot of it was just because Victoria felt compelled to do it differently -- and sometimes it didn't completely work (and sometimes it very much did). And once her performance improved, they started writing to it. (Just as when Linda Evans' performance began tanking on DYNASTY -- she was quite good in the first two seasons, believe it or not -- they essentially ceased writing for her). So it's, like, chicken-or-the-egg stuff. (I eat both). I still say re-casting core characters in primetime shows tends not to work. I still prefer Margaret Michaels as an imposter (perhaps even her first cameo when Cliff meets Pam and then, after he leaves, she discusses her upcoming death with the doctor). I didn't mind, and may have preferred, Pam's disappearance kept a bit of a mystery, but, sadly, it was a mystery the producers didn't find terribly mystifying -- and they barely wrote to it. I mean, it took nuDALLAS, deeply flawed though it was, 25 years later to really even address it! [IMG width="565px"]https://th.bing.com/th/id/R.38c466f287197c1354010547b72bcf77?rik=kt90mmeRZm6%2fLw&pid=ImgRaw&r=0[/IMG] [/QUOTE]

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