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<blockquote data-quote="Snarky Oracle!" data-source="post: 331531" data-attributes="member: 57984">Exactly right. You just can&#039;t do it like they did it.The Dream explanation was leaked in advance (Howard Keel said in an August print interview &quot;it&#039;s the dream&quot;) and it was acknowledged that the leaking was done &quot;to cut the anger&quot; but that didn&#039;t work. The audience was simply not prepared for their DALLAS to pull something so cheap and lousy.CBS should have told Katzman &quot;no&quot; but they didn&#039;t. David Jacobs told Katzman that the dream was a terrible idea, and Katzman responded if Jacobs had a better one; clearly, Leonard Katzman wasn&#039;t going to listen to Jacobs (who himself has admitted that he would have used a different explanation) as Jacobs had no real control over DALLAS, despite having created the series.Besides, Katzman wanted, probably vindictively, to wipe out Peter Dunne&#039;s admittedly anemic work during the interim Bobby-less season, but doing it in one scene came off as high-handed, desperate, and contemptuous of the audience. <img src="http://images2.minutemediacdn.com/image/upload/c_fit,f_auto,fl_lossy,q_auto,w_728/v1555912783/shape/mentalfloss/dallas3.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Snarky Oracle!, post: 331531, member: 57984"] Exactly right. You just can't do it like they did it. The Dream explanation was leaked in advance (Howard Keel said in an August print interview "it's the dream") and it was acknowledged that the leaking was done "to cut the anger" but that didn't work. The audience was simply not prepared for their DALLAS to pull something so cheap and lousy. CBS should have told Katzman "no" but they didn't. David Jacobs told Katzman that the dream was a terrible idea, and Katzman responded if Jacobs had a better one; clearly, Leonard Katzman wasn't going to listen to Jacobs (who himself has admitted that he would have used a different explanation) as Jacobs had no real control over DALLAS, despite having created the series. Besides, Katzman wanted, probably vindictively, to wipe out Peter Dunne's admittedly anemic work during the interim Bobby-less season, but doing it in one scene came off as high-handed, desperate, and contemptuous of the audience. [IMG]http://images2.minutemediacdn.com/image/upload/c_fit,f_auto,fl_lossy,q_auto,w_728/v1555912783/shape/mentalfloss/dallas3.png[/IMG] [/QUOTE]

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