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Message: <blockquote data-quote="the-lost-son" data-source="post: 281860" data-attributes="member: 672">David Jacobs once said that Knots Landing was more difficult to produce than Dallas because you had to find reasons for the neighbors to interact instead of stopping to speak with each other (like many people do). In the early outline of the series JR and Bobby fought for their parents' approval and the top position of Ewing Oil. At the end, Jock is dead, Miss Ellie is out of the picture, the company we knew was gone, so why do these middle-aged brothers, live under the same roof, keep interacting with each other instead of starting their own clan? Romantic storyline are easier to portray if you focus on passion. But these rational motivations were increasingly unclear in the end.</blockquote>