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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pete lashmar" data-source="post: 156559" data-attributes="member: 606">As a life long fan of Dallas, who isn't blind to errors made during the original run I think I was blindsided by the TNT series.I always felt there was a huge amount of life left for the show and there wasn't a supersoap kind of series to get my teeth sunk into - television had changed so much in the years Dallas had been off air.So here we were, back at Southfork with many familiar names and faces....but it wasn't Southfork, the characters I knew for 14 years, that I watched every week and binge watched on DVD looked the same, but were completely different.Bobby, Sue Ellen and J.R were just off on my perception of the characters, whilst Cliff Barnes - the loser with a smile had morphed into a character from the Sopranos.It was Dallas but not as I knew it and although I loved seeing Patrick, Linda, Ken and Larry it soon became clear that this show wasn't about the Ewings, it was about everyone else with a Ewing involved in one of their plots.I was expected to believe that in a multi millionaire family, who always got the headlines, no one knew what Cliff's daughter looked like.My joy of it being brought back was destroyed by CC who had no idea about the show, it's history, it's legacy or it's fans.Yes it's Dallas, but in an alternate universe and therefore doesn't belong in any way as a contiuation to the Lorimar series.</blockquote>