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<blockquote data-quote="Snarky Oracle!" data-source="post: 112324" data-attributes="member: 57984">This is the first year story editor David Paulsen was gone from the show since &quot;Who Shot JR?&quot; eight long years earlier (except for the dream season when Bobby was &#039;dead&#039;), his leaving to go run the ninth and final season of narratively-challenged DYNASTY (which he indeed fixed, but too late to save it from the axe).Paulsen has said he&#039;d already wanted to leave DALLAS, and one assumes it&#039;s because of the different, sillier tone that Leonard Katzman wanted the series to take on. When Paulsen&#039;s departure was official in 1988, Hagman made some snippy remark in the press that Paulsen&#039;s leaving was &quot;probably good&quot; for DALLAS because Paulsen &quot;didn&#039;t have a sense of humor.&quot; So that seems to support the idea that decision to turn DALLAS towards self-satirical campiness was an official one, and Paulsen knew it was a bad idea (so he went over to un-campify DYNASTY, as it were).Why would anybody do this to DALLAS? Duffy had talked about their desire to do a Mad Magazine-style parody of DALLAS after the series ended, but they apparently decided not to wait.To their credit, years later Hagman admitted the last couple of DALLAS years &quot;weren&#039;t up to par&quot; and Duffy conceded that they &quot;lost objectivity about what qualified as a good story&quot; during the closing years.But if Paulsen saw the danger of getting too light and facetious (when DALLAS should have gotten darker and more ominous) then why didn&#039;t Katzman/Hagman/Duffy see that at the time?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Snarky Oracle!, post: 112324, member: 57984"] This is the first year story editor David Paulsen was gone from the show since "Who Shot JR?" eight long years earlier (except for the dream season when Bobby was 'dead'), his leaving to go run the ninth and final season of narratively-challenged DYNASTY (which he indeed fixed, but too late to save it from the axe). Paulsen has said he'd already wanted to leave DALLAS, and one assumes it's because of the different, sillier tone that Leonard Katzman wanted the series to take on. When Paulsen's departure was official in 1988, Hagman made some snippy remark in the press that Paulsen's leaving was "probably good" for DALLAS because Paulsen "didn't have a sense of humor." So that seems to support the idea that decision to turn DALLAS towards self-satirical campiness was an official one, and Paulsen knew it was a bad idea (so he went over to un-campify DYNASTY, as it were). Why would anybody do this to DALLAS? Duffy had talked about their desire to do a Mad Magazine-style parody of DALLAS after the series ended, but they apparently decided not to wait. To their credit, years later Hagman admitted the last couple of DALLAS years "weren't up to par" and Duffy conceded that they "lost objectivity about what qualified as a good story" during the closing years. But if Paulsen saw the danger of getting too light and facetious (when DALLAS should have gotten darker and more ominous) then why didn't Katzman/Hagman/Duffy see that at the time? [/QUOTE]

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Who played JR Ewing?