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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Snarky Oracle!" data-source="post: 365191" data-attributes="member: 57984">There were so many missed opportunities.McKay was never a replacement for Wendell (William Smithers was fired when he asked for a raise -- on recommendation of Larry).I'm still not sure I'd want a Pam re-cast -- they don't tend to work for core characters (although the plastic surgery angle helps sell it a bit). But we should have eventually found out, at least vaguely, what might have happened to her before the series ended (I vote neurofibromatosis -- Rebecca was mistaken, or lied, about Hutch McKinney being the father!)Gold-digging April was totally wrong for Bobby, and they had to change her too much.They should never have written-out Afton again. She was a stabilizing character somehow.For Season 13 (DVD) I want Lady Jessica's murder spree taken seriously, like a gothic horror movie.There are very few plotlines you can't do. It's the execution (as it were) -- the tone, the details -- which make all the difference. And the closing seasons of oldDALLAS just started to fake it, somehow. It's all too facetious, too contemptuous of the audience, etc..DALLAS should have gotten dustier and darker as it went into its final phases, but instead did the opposite.Later, Larry admitted that the last couple of seasons "weren't up to par" and Patrick said they'd lost objectivity about what qualified as a good story.</blockquote>