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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ray&amp;Donna" data-source="post: 196168" data-attributes="member: 42"><p>I think it's a combination of writing and acting--DALLAS had pretty darn good writing for its first seven years, give or take a few episodes.  After Bobby was shot, and BBG disappeared from the opening credits. things were never the same.  There was an ambiguity to the original incarnation of Jenna that wasn't there for the 83-84 version.  In some instances, as we discussed on the thread about Katherine, actors add more to their roles that what is written on the page.  But in Jenna's case, she became far less interesting as time passed.  Of course, one could argue that by the time Priscilla showed up at Billy Bob's, much of the moral ambiguity of the original characters had been lost to the necessities of writing a weekly serial.  We knew that J.R. and Cliff would do anything possible to take each other down, and that Pam and Bobby were still in love despite the wedges that had been driven between them (partly their own fault, due to lack of communication).  Perhaps the most ambiguous story of the season, aside from the retread of Charlie's paternity, was the one involving Edgar Randolph.</p></blockquote><p></p>