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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Frankenstein Underworld" data-source="post: 416366" data-attributes="member: 35">I think it's a misconception that fans only care about a select few characters.  If Miss Ellie was so irrelevant, fans wouldn't be divided over her recasting all these years later.Bringing back BBG may not have prevented the ratings slide, but at least Miss Ellie no longer felt like a completely different character like she did the previous year.Reed's version of a ranch matriarch may be valid in its own right, but it was too contradictory to the characterization of Miss Ellie that we saw over the previous 7 seasons.Of course, all of the characterizations were off during the last 3 years when the writing went to crap.  But at its zenith, all of the core characters had a solid fanbase.</blockquote>