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<blockquote data-quote="pete lashmar" data-source="post: 314606" data-attributes="member: 606">Very good points.Add to that the writing off of a whole season, a season that had some brilliant storylines and character development (Ray &amp; Donna&#039;s adoption being the best) as a dream and you know a show is in trouble.It&#039;s because the audience invested in the characters that when faced with the &quot;It was all a dream&quot;, they felt completely robbed.Later, when new characters were brought in most of them were either completely unlikable (Michelle I&#039;m looking at you especially) or they had such a negative impact on well loved characters that the audience rejected them.Jack could and should have worked very well, but when Bobby returned the writers failed to integrate the character well enough for him to fit in - but he should have and could have been a great asset to the show.Alternatively, a character like Jenna should have been written out as soon as Bobby and Pam got back together, the fact that writers kept her hanging around like a bad smell and then put her and Ray together was something that left viewers with a bad taste in their mouths because they knew that these characters were just not right together and both had been hugely watered down from the characters they once were. The same happened with just about every character on the show, the more the series went on the lesser characters they became.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pete lashmar, post: 314606, member: 606"] Very good points. Add to that the writing off of a whole season, a season that had some brilliant storylines and character development (Ray & Donna's adoption being the best) as a dream and you know a show is in trouble. It's because the audience invested in the characters that when faced with the "It was all a dream", they felt completely robbed. Later, when new characters were brought in most of them were either completely unlikable (Michelle I'm looking at you especially) or they had such a negative impact on well loved characters that the audience rejected them. Jack could and should have worked very well, but when Bobby returned the writers failed to integrate the character well enough for him to fit in - but he should have and could have been a great asset to the show. Alternatively, a character like Jenna should have been written out as soon as Bobby and Pam got back together, the fact that writers kept her hanging around like a bad smell and then put her and Ray together was something that left viewers with a bad taste in their mouths because they knew that these characters were just not right together and both had been hugely watered down from the characters they once were. The same happened with just about every character on the show, the more the series went on the lesser characters they became. [/QUOTE]

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