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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pete lashmar" data-source="post: 160958" data-attributes="member: 606">Television has changed so much since the original Lorimar series. With 22+ episodes a year the show was allowed the breathe and unfold - now, whether New Dallas was made by Lorimar or not there would have been pressure for single use cameras, speedy cutting, dizzying speeds and all at the cost of focus on what made Dallas so watchable.Possibly, if Lorimar had made the new series we may have seen more original characters in the show (with bigger roles), one of the biggest problems with TNT is they made non characters (those that never existed in the original) major ones in their show, pushing The Ewings out more and more.The threatment of Lucy & Ray was astonishingly poor - 2 major Dallas characters reduced to talking heads in a few episodes and for J.R's funeral/wake we saw the most random turnout from a producer that didn't know her arse from her elbow.But yes, I digress, Lorimar would have honoured more legacy characters I think.</blockquote>