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<blockquote data-quote="Taylor Bennett Jr." data-source="post: 170040" data-attributes="member: 2740">I agree with a number of people earlier in the thread that abandoning Cousin Jimmy was an odd decision. The show always seemed to have a hole in that young adult range a bit below Bobby and Pam, and the promising ones (Jimmy, Kristin, Mickey, Alan Beam even though he was a bit older) never seemed to last.Later on, it seems they tried to insert a number of characters in that age range into the show out of nowhere and the consensus seems to be they were pretty much all lame!Also, it’s been pointed out that Jimmy would have balanced out the disparity in the number of Barneses vs Ewings.&nbsp; They kind of fixed that later with Rebecca and Katherine, etc., but I thought the “let’s suddenly make Cliff and Pam fabulously independently wealthy via their long-lost mother” move changed the dynamic of the feud significantly, turning Cliff from a scrappy, ambitious, if overly obsessed underdog to an outright buffoon pretty quickly.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Taylor Bennett Jr., post: 170040, member: 2740"] I agree with a number of people earlier in the thread that abandoning Cousin Jimmy was an odd decision. The show always seemed to have a hole in that young adult range a bit below Bobby and Pam, and the promising ones (Jimmy, Kristin, Mickey, Alan Beam even though he was a bit older) never seemed to last. Later on, it seems they tried to insert a number of characters in that age range into the show out of nowhere and the consensus seems to be they were pretty much all lame! Also, it’s been pointed out that Jimmy would have balanced out the disparity in the number of Barneses vs Ewings. They kind of fixed that later with Rebecca and Katherine, etc., but I thought the “let’s suddenly make Cliff and Pam fabulously independently wealthy via their long-lost mother” move changed the dynamic of the feud significantly, turning Cliff from a scrappy, ambitious, if overly obsessed underdog to an outright buffoon pretty quickly. [/QUOTE]

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