R123, I'm not R122.
But I do have a few thoughts. First, it was Pamela Rebecca, not Rebecca Pamela.
Second, how is it racist to say a Mexican producer wanted to emphasize Hispanic characters? My issues with Cidre have nothing to do with her nationality and everything to do with she was handed -- the reins to the MOST ICONIC show in all of TV history, certainly, the most iconic primetime serial in TV history, and she dropped the ball left and right with history.
She couldn't have researched Raul and Teresa and maybe brought those actors on or at least the characters onto the show as Elena's parents/parent?
I asked Cidre myself at an event if she'd be addressing neurofibromatosis when Pamela Rebecca was pregnant (as her grandfather Digger Barnes carried the gene and Cliff and Pam lost two siblings to the condition; or in Pam's case, two half-siblings). She was unaware of the neurofibromatosis story beat from the original. She and her producing partner were very nice and didn't dismiss me as a 'fan' -- producing partner said I was passionate, very respectfully, and I thanked him. Class act.
I would have paid money out of my own salary to have shown the clip where Miss Ellie warned Sue Ellen that someday she (Miss Ellie) wouldn't be there and John Ross and Christopher would continue the feud that JR and Bobby were fighting.
There were SO MANY missed opportunities. Where was Ray and Donna's daughter Margaret named after Ray's mother? What about Lucas, Bobby's son with Jenna? I think Priscilla Presley had destroyed her face by this time, but Dallas could have reached out to Jenna Wade OG Morgan Fairchild to reprise the role.
Bringing Rebecca Barnes Wentworth back to life would have been a stretch, but Priscilla Pointer was (and is!) still alive. Probably would have stretched credibility but as so many others -- Barbara, Howard -- were all gone...
The big money shot would have been moving heaven and earth to get Victoria Principal back as Pam and reunite her and Bobby.
THERE"S SO MUCH THEY COULD HAVE DONE AND THEY DIDN"T!!!
There were some parts of the revival I liked; Sue Ellen telling Afton the 'worst thing my husband ever did -- was YOU!" Sue Ellen's eulogy of J.R. Josh Henderson was fine as John Ross. Julie Gonzalo was great as Pamela Rebecca; the coloring was all wrong, but she turned brunette like her aunt even tho as a toddler she was blonde like her mom.
I give them props for having Mandy and Callie back for JR's funeral, but where was Abby Ewing? Sly? Serena? (Frankly, in many ways, Serena was the woman who was best suited for J.R.; their relationship was transactional, but it worked.) And that scene-stealing Fern Fitzgerald as Marilee Stone?
Steve Kanaly and Charlene Tilton were glorified extras. Cliff did NOT deserve to rot in a jail cell for a crime he didn't commit. If Cidre wanted to do DALLAS, then she should have done freakin' DALLAS.
Otherwise, she may have just as well called the show A Family in Texas or Capricorn Crude; though, I think the irony of those suggested titles would have been lost on her.