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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James from London" data-source="post: 444761" data-attributes="member: 22">I wonder if it's more of a budget thing. Traditionally, the more expensive-looking episodes of Dallas -- the ones with the barbecues, balls and everything shot in location in Texas -- are in the first half of the season. As the year goes on and the storylines hot up, it becomes more about intense confrontations between the characters than big visual set-pieces -- less panoramic views, more claustrophobic close-ups.They'd never attempted something as lavish as a masquerade ball so late in a season before. Maybe because the Dream Season was so long and there was a different production team running the show, things just got thrown out a bit of whack, and there was no longer the time or the money to spend on making it look as good as it should have done. The first ten or so episodes of the 85/6 season are as gorgeous to look at as the show ever got (pre-New Dallas anyway), but after that, the episodes start to look increasingly churned out and visually uninspired. The flatness of the masquerade ball fits in with that overall decline, so I'm not sure an individual episode director can be held entirely responsible. (Besides, Hagman had directed some cracking eps prior to this one).</blockquote>

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