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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pamela_E" data-source="post: 293371" data-attributes="member: 315">What kind of show could new Dallas have been?A serious high brow drama in the vein of Mad Men. A teen focused drama A camped up ott show.There were so many options but ultimately it tried to be everything to everyone and ended up in a pickle.Personally I believe the casting was all wrong for the Ewing kids. They lacked depth. Although I thought Jordana was good and also the actress who played Ann's daughter.I felt both John Ross and Christoper were miscast. Josh Henderson was nice enough but not strong enough to carry the show. Christopher  lacked  any form of  personality. These guys were meant to be core of the show and it just didn't work.The history of the show played no part in its failings. People watch something because it's good not because Teresa is still the maid from a century ago or that they played around with the history.It just wasn't very good in drawing it's characters.There was also something very 1990's about it. Maybe back then a threesome would be shocking but in 2012 it felt contrived and done to shock us. Thus compromising  characters like Pamela. There was basically no one to like, nobody to root for.  There wasn't a couple anyone really cared about. All the characters were one dimensional.I find it bizarre that you have a character like Christopher, , one mother dead in a pool, the other vanished. All this rich history and yet he was as dull as dishwater.He could have been the new Gary Ewing, nice but flawed.  John Ross was written like a teenager who just left high school.  Wasn't he meant to be about 33?Anyway, the issue was casting but more the fact the characters were just boring pr all over the place.</blockquote>

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