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<blockquote data-quote="Snarky Oracle!" data-source="post: 331430" data-attributes="member: 57984">I think these shows tend to work better -- depending on what one is looking for -- when they proceed in season long chapters, which DALLAS did particularly well in its key years. The cliffhanger becomes the natural end of one chapter and the implicit beginning of the next. So I have no problem with it, especially when it&#039;s structured and built to with some degree of artful skill.Bad or smudgy writing is neither helped nor corrected with the use of the cliffhanger convention. But the cliffhanger, and the annual expectation of it, can give a certain kind of clarity to an ongoing stroryline, particularly when the show is any good and the producers understand their own product.<img src="https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/flx-editorial-wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/80s-Cliffhangers.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Snarky Oracle!, post: 331430, member: 57984"] I think these shows tend to work better -- depending on what one is looking for -- when they proceed in season long chapters, which DALLAS did particularly well in its key years. The cliffhanger becomes the natural end of one chapter and the implicit beginning of the next. So I have no problem with it, especially when it's structured and built to with some degree of artful skill. Bad or smudgy writing is neither helped nor corrected with the use of the cliffhanger convention. But the cliffhanger, and the annual expectation of it, can give a certain kind of clarity to an ongoing stroryline, particularly when the show is any good and the producers understand their own product. [IMG]https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/flx-editorial-wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/80s-Cliffhangers.jpg[/IMG] [/QUOTE]

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