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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kenny Coyote" data-source="post: 211661" data-attributes="member: 102">I'm not sure she really means she watched because it was "this story" because when I  gave my reason for watching:Then [USER=36]@Miss Texas 1967[/USER]  replied:If my reason was also her reason, then our watching TNT''s show has nothing to do with any story or scripts the TNT show created and nothing they did as far as any new actors they cast for TNT's show happened to cast.  I suppose you could say if TNT hadn't hired Larry Hagman, Patrick Duffy, Linda Gray and Ken kercheval then we wouldn't have watched but it's hardly a sign of brilliance on the part of the TNT show that they cast the original characters to play the same roles they played in the original!The thread  asks if the TNT creators "got it"-  did they get the story -  and the answer is no. If they had, we wouldn't have all these people saying they didn't! Bringing Larry Hagman backs JR or Patrick Duffy as Bobby doesn't mean they "got it." They didn't even understand those characters, or Ken Kercheval's character!The only thing TNT "got" was the right to use the Dallas name and getting those 4 actors to agree to be part of their show.The people who were in charge of running TNT Dallas didn't "get" what it was that made Dallas work. Actually watching the whole show might have helped them get it, but they didn't watch more than a third of it. Not that watching all of it would have been any guarantee they'd have understood why Dallas worked and became a phenomenon, but it would have made it at least more likely that they would "get it."</blockquote>

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