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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ChrisSumner" data-source="post: 266263" data-attributes="member: 759">The timing was wrong for this reboot. Had it come a few years later I feel it would've been better. Of course due to the deaths of Ken Kercheval and Larry Hagman I'm happy it happened, but it was all wrong. To think how high the ratings were when it debuted and it just plummeted is heartbreaking because that proved the audience would've been there if the show was good.I agree with Pamela that the casting was just plain bad. The actors weren't strong enough to overcome such thin characterizations and bad writing. It felt like they had no budget which forced them into casting no name actors who just couldn't hold their own. I feel Ann, John Ross, Christopher, Pamela Rebecca AND Elena could've been cast better. The biggest miss though was the writing. You have a soap but a writer who hates soaps and can't write a romance, a continuing story OR a compelling multi-episode story. She was hopeless. I feel like by the third season she accepted it was a soap and it got better, but it was too little too late at that point. Dallas and Knots Landing weren't Dynasty. Both were well written and respectable series so being a "soap" wasn't a bad thing for them. Cidre's problem was just that she couldn't write a GOOD soap.</blockquote>