8 minutes ago, Chris 2 said:

When Victoria left, Dallas as we knew it - the Ewings vs the Barnes - was over. They needed a new setup. Instead, they just tried to keep going with a Pamela-sized hole in the show. And then you had the adventures of Ray, Jenna, and Charlie sucking the life out of the show whenever those character appeared, which was far too often.

This!

When Bobby left they still had JR vs Pam which the show didn't commit to.

The premise of the show was Pam vs the Ewings. When she left it was a different show. The only thing that kept it going that season was JR vs Sue Ellen. Everything else sucked.

I still can't believe they let Donna go and tried to pair up Ray and Jenna.

7 minutes ago, Vee said:

I still can't believe they let Donna go and tried to pair up Ray and Jenna.

If anything they should have written off Ray and kept Donna. After the Mickey-story Ray became more and more irrelevant.

 

 

With all the departures in season 10, I don't understand why they didn't hold on to Jamie and Jack. They were Ewings and being torn between Ewing and Barnes lines. Jamie had a romantic connection with Cliff which blurred the line of loyalty she had to either side. Jack had a stake in Ewing which was compromised by April coming into the picture. It would have kept the feud going with both Ewings and Barnes in several directions. 

 

3 minutes ago, GLATWT88 said:

With all the departures in season 10, I don't understand why they didn't hold on to Jamie and Jack. They were Ewings and being torn between Ewing and Barnes lines. Jamie had a romantic connection with Cliff which blurred the line of loyalty she had to either side. Jack had a stake in Ewing which was compromised by April coming into the picture. It would have kept the feud going with both Ewings and Barnes in several directions. 

 

It was odd that Jack was written out after his ex-wife April came aboard but it was no surprise that Jamie was.  I don't know why the show wanted her gone so badly but someone obviously did.  That poor thing was killed off TWICE! 

20 minutes ago, Jagger1966 said:

It was odd that Jack was written out after his ex-wife April came aboard but it was no surprise that Jamie was.  I don't know why the show wanted her gone so badly but someone obviously did.  That poor thing was killed off TWICE! 

I know! I always think that they tried to get rid of her once but she was saved simply because the whole season was a dream and then she's killed off again. 

 

I just can't believe they were still throwing young women at Cliff at that point. I just saw Jamie debut and it makes me squirm to think about.

1 hour ago, GLATWT88 said:

With all the departures in season 10, I don't understand why they didn't hold on to Jamie and Jack. They were Ewings and being torn between Ewing and Barnes lines. Jamie had a romantic connection with Cliff which blurred the line of loyalty she had to either side. Jack had a stake in Ewing which was compromised by April coming into the picture. It would have kept the feud going with both Ewings and Barnes in several directions. 

 

Jamie was killed three times. Twice in the dream season and once in the following season which happened off screen. All we got was Sue Ellen yelling Oh no when the call of her death was revealed. After the lawsuit..I don't think they knew what to do with Jamie.

1 hour ago, Jagger1966 said:

It was odd that Jack was written out after his ex-wife April came aboard but it was no surprise that Jamie was.  I don't know why the show wanted her gone so badly but someone obviously did.  That poor thing was killed off TWICE! 

As for Jack @GLATWT88 @Jagger1966.....Dack Rambo said he and Larry Hagman did not get along the first two seasons. It got worse when Patrick Duffy returned. He accused Larry of having him fired in 1987. 

Dack said Larry didn't like him because of his bisexuality.

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1 hour ago, Soapsuds said:

Jamie was killed three times. Twice in the dream season and once in the following season which happened off screen. All we got was Sue Ellen yelling Oh no when the call of her death was revealed. After the lawsuit..I don't think they knew what to do with Jamie.

As for Jack @GLATWT88 @Jagger1966.....Dack Rambo said he and Larry Hagman did not get along the first two seasons. It got worse when Patrick Duffy returned. He accused Larry of having him fired in 1987. 

Dack said Larry didn't like him because of his bisexuality.

I know Dack passed less than a decade after leaving the series, but have any other details surfaced? Do you remember where Dack shared this information? Did Larry ever respond to these claims? 

Did Jamie die twice in the dream season? 

3 minutes ago, GLATWT88 said:

I know Dack passed less than a decade after leaving the series, but have any other details surfaced? Do you remember where Dack shared this information? Did Larry ever respond to these claims? 

Did Jamie die twice in the dream season? 

I don't recall where I read it but it's been out there for some time. Larry did deny getting him fired but I don't think he ever denied not liking him.

Jamie almost died when the barrels fell on her. I think at the time there was a chance she would be written out. Then she was in Jack's car when it exploded due to Angelica hired hit man.

 

I think the challenge with the Ewing cousins is that cousin relationships are never as charged as sibling relationships. And neither Jack nor Jamie were particularly well cast. Jenilee Harrison simply wasn’t a great actress. And Dack Rambo had this coldness to his performances and didn’t have chemistry with anyone.

If they needed more family members, they would have been better off giving Clayton a couple of more children. They never utilized him properly - he was a total cipher, who pretty much gave up his entire life to move to Southfork to devote himself to Ellie. Where were his friends or other family members (beyond Dusty and crazy Jessica) and business dealings?