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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ArchieLucasCarringtonEwing1989" data-source="post: 56327" data-attributes="member: 95">I'm not sure how I feel about Peter Dean/Pete Beale.I have found that Peter Dean overacted, where as Leslie Grantham I felt was the better actor, Anita Dobson overacted but that was because Angie herself was such a larger than life character so it was acceptable (plus Dobson had been on the stage so the acting style is different to soap) but Peter Dean I couldn't take seriously at times.There had been plans to kill Pete Beale off quite early on in the series, but Julia Smith changed her mind and kept him on.Pete Beale had come to a natural end by the early 1990s, I don't think there was anything else the writers could do with him unfortunately, even if they wrote him off and brought him back a few years later I'm still uncertain if there was room for Pete Beale in the 1990s and 2000s, aside for a potential, but predictable, Pete vs Phil feud over Kathy and how Phil treated Ian, but I felt that Kathy and Ian grew and developed more without the presence of Pete.</blockquote>