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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pete lashmar" data-source="post: 289827" data-attributes="member: 606">To to blunt, there were far too many issues with TNT that nothing could save it.Any continuation of Dallas needed to be solidly rooted in the show's history but CC decided she knew better and just went off on her own journey which trampled on the legacy of the show.Poor scripts, dire dialogues, miscast actors and some terrible "new" additions created a hotch potch that turned viewers off in their droves.It alienated most fans of the original and wasn't watchable for any new viewers...so it failed on all fronts.There were some good ideas, and a couple of juicy plots but they didn't matter because the show was a complete mess.I'll be honest, when it first aired I was so excited and loved seeing the show back, but as the show went on I became more and more aware of it not being Dallas. I'm all for updates and changes, but Dallas is one show that never did change or updates well and that's why it died a death in the first place.If they had started with Miss Ellie's funeral it would have at least given the show some solid new roots, with the Ewings gathering and facing a new wind of change, but instead we got introduced to a family we had never known, who were completely unlikable and most of the screen time was on them..Jessie, as lovely as he is to look at was void of any charisma and just came across as a dull, lame lamb that needed to be put out of his misery.But the worst decision IMO was not swapping the sons, Christopher should have been the powerful one and John Ross the jock, it would have lead to so much more conflict for them and their families.</blockquote>

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