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<blockquote data-quote="Snarky Oracle!" data-source="post: 442724" data-attributes="member: 57984">Sadly, the entire DALLAS franchise -- once, and perhaps still, the most successful drama series in global television history -- has had so many bungles along the way, it&#039;s hard to envision anything working ever again. When Donna Reed stepped off that plane in 1984, the karma shifted and the series never recovered. The original show only had one good season after that, and it was only halfway through its run. There were dreams to wipe out entire years, later seasons which turned to &quot;funny&quot; shlock, two reunion movies which lacked any real storyline, and a 2012 sequel series which was in other creative hands predictably disinterested in the original source material. The 1986 prequel movie was okay-ish, I guess, even when the creator was at the helm.The whole thing has been a spectacular mess. The showrunners developing a contempt for the audience at the series&#039; peak. Resurrecting it, and how to do it -- especially at this point -- is hard to fathom. I suppose if somebody did it and did it well, most of us would applaud, but that&#039;s really, really difficult to picture.And I don&#039;t think it&#039;s possible.[ATTACH=full]59397[/ATTACH]&nbsp;Besides, they say A.I. is going to kill us all in 2027, so what&#039;s the point?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Snarky Oracle!, post: 442724, member: 57984"] Sadly, the entire DALLAS franchise -- once, and perhaps still, the most successful drama series in global television history -- has had so many bungles along the way, it's hard to envision anything working ever again. When Donna Reed stepped off that plane in 1984, the karma shifted and the series never recovered. The original show only had one good season after that, and it was only halfway through its run. There were dreams to wipe out entire years, later seasons which turned to "funny" shlock, two reunion movies which lacked any real storyline, and a 2012 sequel series which was in other creative hands predictably disinterested in the original source material. The 1986 prequel movie was okay-ish, I guess, even when the creator was at the helm. The whole thing has been a spectacular mess. The showrunners developing a contempt for the audience at the series' peak. Resurrecting it, and how to do it -- especially at this point -- is hard to fathom. I suppose if somebody did it [I]and did it well[/I], most of us would applaud, but that's really, really difficult to picture. And I don't think it's possible. [ATTACH type="full" width="785px"]59397[/ATTACH] Besides, they say A.I. is going to kill us all in 2027, so what's the point? [/QUOTE]

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