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<blockquote data-quote="Willie Oleson" data-source="post: 441918" data-attributes="member: 8">And there&#039;s no difference between not-having-seen Teresa&#039;s children and not-having-seen Carmen&#039;s children.You can hardly call Teresa a&nbsp; &quot;character&quot; in classic Dallas and to make her a character in new Dallas would still look like a retcon regardless of any children.Maybe John Ross and Christopher&#039;s childhood playmates should have been never-seen-before-Punk Anderson&#039;s grandchildren, I don&#039;t know, but they had to pluck these characters from somewhere to make the lives of the next generation Ewings look more intertwined with place and history and themselves. To tell the story that they wanted to tell rather than going through the wish list of The Fanbase.And maybe it would have looked better if the writing had been more &quot;traditional Dallas&quot; but that&#039;s only speculation, and then you also have to consider that they could have cast different actors in the alternative roles as requested by the fanbase. I like the cast that we actually got in new Dallas.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Willie Oleson, post: 441918, member: 8"] And there's no difference between not-having-seen Teresa's children and not-having-seen Carmen's children. You can hardly call Teresa a "character" in classic Dallas and to make her a character in new Dallas would still look like a retcon regardless of any children. Maybe John Ross and Christopher's childhood playmates should have been never-seen-before-Punk Anderson's grandchildren, I don't know, but they had to pluck these characters from somewhere to make the lives of the next generation Ewings look more intertwined with place and history and themselves. To tell the story that they wanted to tell rather than going through the wish list of The Fanbase. And maybe it would have looked better if the writing had been more "traditional Dallas" but that's only speculation, and then you also have to consider that they could have cast different actors in the alternative roles as requested by the fanbase. I like the cast that we actually got in new Dallas. [/QUOTE]

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