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<blockquote data-quote="Daniel Avery" data-source="post: 303366" data-attributes="member: 27">Arguably, the only reason JR (and Bobby and Kristen) crossed over was FOR the publicity and ratings.&nbsp; The crossovers rarely &quot;worked&quot; story-wise, since the Dallas characters were &quot;bigger&quot; (more dramatic) than the Knots characters and brought that largeness to a show that tried to be smaller-scale.&nbsp; So while these characters felt shoe-horned in for an episode, the network was going to promote the heck out of it and try to get people to sample &quot;quiet, little Knots Landing&quot;, even if the majority of samplers were fooled into thinking they would be watching &quot;Californian Dallas&quot; and instead got Californian Scenes From A Marriage.Part of the &quot;Crossover Fatigue&quot; among viewers comes from how show-runners have embraced crossover plots as their attempt to show off how clever they are.&nbsp; Rather than making the crossover a logical outgrowth of storytelling, they become an exercise in show-runner ego massage.&nbsp; How spectacular can we make this one?&nbsp; Gotta be bigger than the last one! When the stories are more complex than they need to be, viewers tend to lose interest.I often wonder how those superhero shows on the CW will be viewed in reruns, what with all the crossovers and characters that regularly appear on multiple shows.&nbsp; If you only want to watch one of the shows, will it make a lick of sense?&nbsp; Would you need to seek out key episodes of other shows and view them in order to know what was going on with the original show you were watching?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Daniel Avery, post: 303366, member: 27"] Arguably, the only reason JR (and Bobby and Kristen) crossed over was FOR the publicity and ratings. The crossovers rarely "worked" story-wise, since the [I]Dallas[/I] characters were "bigger" (more dramatic) than the Knots characters and brought that largeness to a show that tried to be smaller-scale. So while these characters felt shoe-horned in for an episode, the network was going to promote the heck out of it and try to get people to sample "quiet, little [I]Knots Landing", [/I]even if the majority of samplers were fooled into thinking they would be watching "Californian[I] Dallas[/I]" and instead got Californian [I]Scenes From A Marriage.[/I] Part of the "Crossover Fatigue" among viewers comes from how show-runners have embraced crossover plots as their attempt to show off how clever they are. Rather than making the crossover a logical outgrowth of storytelling, they become an exercise in show-runner ego massage.[I] How spectacular can we make this one? Gotta be bigger than the last one! [/I]When the stories are more complex than they need to be, viewers tend to lose interest. I often wonder how those superhero shows on the CW will be viewed in reruns, what with all the crossovers and characters that regularly appear on multiple shows. If you only want to watch one of the shows, will it make a lick of sense? Would you need to seek out key episodes of other shows and view them in order to know what was going on with the original show you were watching? [/QUOTE]

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Who played JR Ewing?