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TNT Dallas - A Caricature Of The Original
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<blockquote data-quote="Michael Torrance" data-source="post: 141926" data-attributes="member: 719"><p>I think the new Dallas team counted a lot on JR/the trio of original characters being the thread that kept the old and new together while they went haywire with all other elements, and Hagman's death meant only the haywire part survived, that called the never-before-known Ramos family. Elena was simply a black hole in terms of narrative progress because it was pulling the show away from the Ewings and established history, when they could have had her be someone working at Ewing without the past mumbo jumbo. At least Ann as a current Mrs. Ewing was making the past and the Rylands relevant. But season 1 was not as derailed as the show eventually came to be--it was still salvageable, and I was looking forward to the second season although I already felt Elena and her revisionist family story was being crammed down our throats by Cidre. (Which is also why I find insincere the calls for the show not to be "tied down" to its past when it was actually trying to convince us very much it was continuing from a past, only a past never witnessed on screen.) </p><p>But by the second season, Elena becomes even more prominent (and now has Drew) while the absence of J.R. has Cidre turn Cliff into a new kind of cardboard villain. By season three, though ironically the old style title sequence has returned, the show is as far removed from the Dallas established history and the soap genre as can be. Nicolas joins the Elena ridiculousness (a waste of a good and hunky actor), the Rylands become a carnival number, and the show is oscillating between a Narcos wannabe and an American Horror Story pale copy.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Michael Torrance, post: 141926, member: 719"] I think the new Dallas team counted a lot on JR/the trio of original characters being the thread that kept the old and new together while they went haywire with all other elements, and Hagman's death meant only the haywire part survived, that called the never-before-known Ramos family. Elena was simply a black hole in terms of narrative progress because it was pulling the show away from the Ewings and established history, when they could have had her be someone working at Ewing without the past mumbo jumbo. At least Ann as a current Mrs. Ewing was making the past and the Rylands relevant. But season 1 was not as derailed as the show eventually came to be--it was still salvageable, and I was looking forward to the second season although I already felt Elena and her revisionist family story was being crammed down our throats by Cidre. (Which is also why I find insincere the calls for the show not to be "tied down" to its past when it was actually trying to convince us very much it was continuing from a past, only a past never witnessed on screen.) But by the second season, Elena becomes even more prominent (and now has Drew) while the absence of J.R. has Cidre turn Cliff into a new kind of cardboard villain. By season three, though ironically the old style title sequence has returned, the show is as far removed from the Dallas established history and the soap genre as can be. Nicolas joins the Elena ridiculousness (a waste of a good and hunky actor), the Rylands become a carnival number, and the show is oscillating between a Narcos wannabe and an American Horror Story pale copy. [/QUOTE]
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