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<blockquote data-quote="Grangehill1" data-source="post: 245526" data-attributes="member: 833">Watching season 9 (dvd) and then going straight into season 10, of course the dream resolution makes everything very jarring. But there’s some other things that don’t help - The switch to cheaper film stock. Suddenly the show looks cheap, fuzzy and pink! Everybodies pink!- The hair and make up. Absolutely no attempt has been made at matching everybody to Swansong (which I understand) but also no attempt has been made to make anyone look good. Was it an unusually long gapBetween seasons as all the women’s’ hair has grown significantantly. Nobody looks styled. Everyone looks a mess.- The storyline of the oil business in crisis. It’s so heavy handed but jars so soMuch with season 8. It’s literally come out of nowhere.- Ray and Donna. I think the fact they’re apart again just makes it horrible for the viewer to watch. Especially as he ends up with Jenna! I think the writers should have done a quick get them back together again in episode one of season 10. That would have helped the audience accept the dream better.- Sue Ellen and JR hating each other. More than any other season, it’s clear season 9 had the most character progression. Ray and Donna got back together, so did JR and Sue Ellen and Cliff and Jamie! To suddenly see all of these characters hating each other again didn’t help. Perhaps the writing could have been more subtle. Perhaps Jamie should have been killed in episode 1 to save us the horrible scenes given to Jennilee Harrison Does what I say make sense? The dream was universally panned but things could have been done for the audience to accept it a lot better if they ‘softened’ the blow with characters, storylines and the look of the show</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Grangehill1, post: 245526, member: 833"] Watching season 9 (dvd) and then going straight into season 10, of course the dream resolution makes everything very jarring. But there’s some other things that don’t help - The switch to cheaper film stock. Suddenly the show looks cheap, fuzzy and pink! Everybodies pink! - The hair and make up. Absolutely no attempt has been made at matching everybody to Swansong (which I understand) but also no attempt has been made to make anyone look good. Was it an unusually long gap Between seasons as all the women’s’ hair has grown significantantly. Nobody looks styled. Everyone looks a mess. - The storyline of the oil business in crisis. It’s so heavy handed but jars so so Much with season 8. It’s literally come out of nowhere. - Ray and Donna. I think the fact they’re apart again just makes it horrible for the viewer to watch. Especially as he ends up with Jenna! I think the writers should have done a quick get them back together again in episode one of season 10. That would have helped the audience accept the dream better. - Sue Ellen and JR hating each other. More than any other season, it’s clear season 9 had the most character progression. Ray and Donna got back together, so did JR and Sue Ellen and Cliff and Jamie! To suddenly see all of these characters hating each other again didn’t help. Perhaps the writing could have been more subtle. Perhaps Jamie should have been killed in episode 1 to save us the horrible scenes given to Jennilee Harrison Does what I say make sense? The dream was universally panned but things could have been done for the audience to accept it a lot better if they ‘softened’ the blow with characters, storylines and the look of the show [/QUOTE]

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