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<blockquote data-quote="Snarky Oracle!" data-source="post: 281871" data-attributes="member: 57984">Frankly, I don&#039;t think the aging cast had anything to do with it --- network executives are always trying to &quot;youth up&quot; older shows, and it never really works.It&#039;s about the talent of the writers.Each of the &#039;80s nighttime soaps needed a creative mentor -- a guiding producer who not only understood character and the series&#039; flavor, but who could also bring an annual sense of renewed scandal that befit the show in question, a yearly sense of structure. Rinse and repeat. It&#039;s a distinct and unique skill, and not everybody has it.Paulsen had it. Robert McCullough had it. David Jacobs presumably had it.Katzman did not -- at least not by himself. Esther Shapiro didn&#039;t bother with it. Most producers and show-runners just didn&#039;t know how to do this terribly well. And DALLAS never had a post-WSJR? season that really worked in which David Paulsen wasn&#039;t deeply involved. That said, I&#039;m a little bit of a defender of Cally; at least she was played by a decent and game actress, and the JR/Cally marriage was an intentional mismatch -- it wasn&#039;t by accident.&quot;Oh, Clayton,, I&#039;m so tired of this bullshyte...&quot;<img src="http://clzmovies.r.sizr.io/core/episodes/original/70/70_Dallas_6_6.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Snarky Oracle!, post: 281871, member: 57984"] Frankly, I don't think the aging cast had anything to do with it --- network executives are always trying to "youth up" older shows, and it never really works. It's about the talent of the writers. Each of the '80s nighttime soaps needed a creative mentor -- a guiding producer who not only understood character and the series' flavor, but who could also bring an annual sense of renewed scandal that befit the show in question, a yearly sense of structure. Rinse and repeat. It's a distinct and unique skill, and not everybody has it. Paulsen had it. Robert McCullough had it. David Jacobs presumably had it. Katzman did not -- at least not by himself. Esther Shapiro didn't bother with it. Most producers and show-runners just didn't know how to do this terribly well. And DALLAS never had a post-WSJR? season that really worked in which David Paulsen wasn't deeply involved. That said, I'm a little bit of a defender of Cally; at least she was played by a decent and game actress, and the JR/Cally marriage was an intentional mismatch -- it wasn't by accident. [I][B]"Oh, Clayton,, I'm so tired of this bullshyte..."[/B][/I] [IMG]http://clzmovies.r.sizr.io/core/episodes/original/70/70_Dallas_6_6.jpg[/IMG] [/QUOTE]

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