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<blockquote data-quote="Snarky Oracle!" data-source="post: 321957" data-attributes="member: 57984">Katzman didn&#039;t like women &quot;tough&quot; while living under the roof of Southfork -- which is where Ellie always was. And, yes, crushing Ellie is, to my mind, the biggest mistake latter DALLAS ever made (not killing April, for godsakes). All the early lead female characters eventually came into their own --- except for Miss Ellie. And during the closing seasons, when she was the only remaining woman character on DALLAS and the primary remaining representative of the family&#039;s home life, instead of making her stronger they just made her wimpier, turned her into Winnie the Pooh, gave her fewer scenes, and then fired her ( once again, this time publicly admitting they&#039;d fired her) and the program continued to sputter to its death, like an oil well that&#039;s tapped out.Again, one of the best things about misfire nuDALLAS, is that they found ways to make JR threatening again, often displaying The Wisdom of an Evil Man... One of my favorite scenes in the TNT show was where JR, in a half-darkened room, said, &quot;don&#039;t you know rich folks never go to jail?... But the people who clean-up for them do.&quot; (Or words to that effect).That sort of cynical insight is something you might hear from JR in the very early days of the original DALLAS, but never after, say, 1984.So JR became less scary not because of whether he did or didn&#039;t kill Kristin, but because we once weren&#039;t sure that he might not be capable of it.That&#039;s all about tone. And nobody necessarily as to die to achieve it.<img src="https://th.bing.com/th/id/R.3c0688c72398137c7d53d3b507288a7e?rik=wLf0CrbrEAYpBw&amp;pid=ImgRaw&amp;r=0" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Snarky Oracle!, post: 321957, member: 57984"] Katzman didn't like women "tough" while living under the roof of Southfork -- which is where Ellie always was. And, yes, crushing Ellie is, to my mind, the [B]biggest [/B]mistake latter DALLAS ever made (not killing April, for godsakes). All the early lead female characters eventually came into their own --- except for Miss Ellie. And during the closing seasons, when she was the only remaining woman character on DALLAS and the primary remaining representative of the family's home life, instead of making her stronger they just made her wimpier, turned her into Winnie the Pooh, gave her fewer scenes, and then fired her ( once again, this time publicly [B]admitting [/B]they'd fired her) and the program continued to sputter to its death, like an oil well that's tapped out. Again, one of the best things about misfire nuDALLAS, is that they found ways to make JR threatening again, often displaying The Wisdom of an Evil Man... One of my favorite scenes in the TNT show was where JR, in a half-darkened room, said, "don't you know rich folks never go to jail?... But the people who clean-up for them [I][B]do[/B][/I]." (Or words to that effect). That sort of cynical insight is something you might hear from JR in the very early days of the original DALLAS, but never after, say, 1984. So JR became less scary [B]not [/B]because of whether he did or didn't kill Kristin, but because we once weren't sure that he might not [B][I]be capable[/I][/B] of it. That's all about tone. And nobody necessarily as to die to achieve it. [IMG]https://th.bing.com/th/id/R.3c0688c72398137c7d53d3b507288a7e?rik=wLf0CrbrEAYpBw&pid=ImgRaw&r=0[/IMG] [/QUOTE]

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