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Dallas - The Original Series
1984-85: A season of decline
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<blockquote data-quote="Snarky Oracle!" data-source="post: 397076" data-attributes="member: 57984"><p>A physical symptom that Season 8 was the very beginning of the end was the new opening titles --- shots of Dallas' cityscape which were brighter (n a way) and yet more overcast. It's a depressingly hazy look compared to the clear, crisp ~February 1978 shots used in the first seven seasons.</p><p></p><p>And then, just before Donna Reed arrives, Philip Capice's usual episode-ending freeze frame credit suddenly drops from the middle of the screen to the bottom. (And for Season 13, the EP credit at the end of the episode disappears completely).</p><p></p><p>I mean, I'm all for minor stylistic experimentation. But these things seem to suggest a churning and a need from the show to re-calibrate.</p><p></p><p>Season 8 should have been an adjustment period for DALLAS, a waystation, a conduit between the series' first half and its second half.... </p><p></p><p>And you could kind of feel that at the time. Even Larry's mother, Mary Martin, described the recasting of Miss Ellie as "kookiie" and for it to occur so "mid-way through" the show.</p><p></p><p>But, as others have observed, during the last half of DALLAS' run, the show just ceased to grow creatively. Everything from Bobby's death forward was kind of regressive. The Season 10 surge creatively was temporary and amounted to a fond, ghostly "goodbye" just as Pam prepared to drive into oblivion.</p><p></p><p><img src="https://static.ffx.io/images/$zoom_1%2C$multiply_0.8528%2C$ratio_1.777778%2C$width_727%2C$x_0%2C$y_0/t_crop_custom/q_86%2Cf_auto/5cc5353be7ff054b77aaa7e7c4389b1b57d2f850" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Indeed I did understand what you said. But I mostly disagree... And you used the phrase "give her a chance" multiple times regarding Reed. So you may be emotionally vested in something that <strong>had</strong> no chance (just like the rest of us, wishing it hadn't happened, trying to rationalize how it could've been avoided, 40 years later).</p><p></p><p>The entry of Donna Reed, due to little fault of her own, was a marker -- a metaphor -- for what was about to happen to the show as a whole.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Snarky Oracle!, post: 397076, member: 57984"] A physical symptom that Season 8 was the very beginning of the end was the new opening titles --- shots of Dallas' cityscape which were brighter (n a way) and yet more overcast. It's a depressingly hazy look compared to the clear, crisp ~February 1978 shots used in the first seven seasons. And then, just before Donna Reed arrives, Philip Capice's usual episode-ending freeze frame credit suddenly drops from the middle of the screen to the bottom. (And for Season 13, the EP credit at the end of the episode disappears completely). I mean, I'm all for minor stylistic experimentation. But these things seem to suggest a churning and a need from the show to re-calibrate. Season 8 should have been an adjustment period for DALLAS, a waystation, a conduit between the series' first half and its second half.... And you could kind of feel that at the time. Even Larry's mother, Mary Martin, described the recasting of Miss Ellie as "kookiie" and for it to occur so "mid-way through" the show. But, as others have observed, during the last half of DALLAS' run, the show just ceased to grow creatively. Everything from Bobby's death forward was kind of regressive. The Season 10 surge creatively was temporary and amounted to a fond, ghostly "goodbye" just as Pam prepared to drive into oblivion. [IMG]https://static.ffx.io/images/$zoom_1%2C$multiply_0.8528%2C$ratio_1.777778%2C$width_727%2C$x_0%2C$y_0/t_crop_custom/q_86%2Cf_auto/5cc5353be7ff054b77aaa7e7c4389b1b57d2f850[/IMG] Indeed I did understand what you said. But I mostly disagree... And you used the phrase "give her a chance" multiple times regarding Reed. So you may be emotionally vested in something that [B]had[/B] no chance (just like the rest of us, wishing it hadn't happened, trying to rationalize how it could've been avoided, 40 years later). The entry of Donna Reed, due to little fault of her own, was a marker -- a metaphor -- for what was about to happen to the show as a whole. [/QUOTE]
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