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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sea - Boo! - Er" data-source="post: 437601" data-attributes="member: 57">I don't think anyone is disputing your general points against recasting. But I think that some of us believe that if a character is important enough - and opinions may well vary on which ones they are - it should be done anyway.I still think recasting Miss Ellie was the right decision - bringing in a previously unknown aunt would not have worked - and Donna Reed was a popular choice at the time. I think the mistake was Miss Reed's choice to base her on the oil baron wives she knew, like a queen on a throne, instead of a rancher with dirt under her fingernails and a shotgun in her closet.</blockquote>