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<blockquote data-quote="Laurie Marr" data-source="post: 443098" data-attributes="member: 175">HHe did and he fired May a few episodes before the end of the Season.Even a cursory glance at May’s episodes reveals a world that looked like one the viewer could step straight into. In some of those scenes in the Oil Baron’s Club , for example, the lighting is&nbsp; almost penumbral. This befits a location where so many shady plotting took place. There were other set pieces put together by May that made the Ewing clan look&nbsp; like they had wandered into the nefarious atmospheres of a grand master’s painting.Alas, by season’s&nbsp; end it’s back to the garish oversaturated look that robs the locations of so much drama even before a line of dialogue has been uttered. JR’s confrontation with Sue Ellen and Peter at the erstwhile moody Oil Baron’s&nbsp; now leaves the viewer with nothing very much to see apart from floodlit blocking.Katzman was a philistine. He wilfully deprived Dallas of the distinction&nbsp; of being a genuinely stylish visual popular drama rather than a succession of pancaked talking heads.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Laurie Marr, post: 443098, member: 175"] H He did and he fired May a few episodes before the end of the Season. Even a cursory glance at May’s episodes reveals a world that looked like one the viewer could step straight into. In some of those scenes in the Oil Baron’s Club , for example, the lighting is almost penumbral. This befits a location where so many shady plotting took place. There were other set pieces put together by May that made the Ewing clan look like they had wandered into the nefarious atmospheres of a grand master’s painting. Alas, by season’s end it’s back to the garish oversaturated look that robs the locations of so much drama even before a line of dialogue has been uttered. JR’s confrontation with Sue Ellen and Peter at the erstwhile moody Oil Baron’s now leaves the viewer with nothing very much to see apart from floodlit blocking. Katzman was a philistine. He wilfully deprived Dallas of the distinction of being a genuinely stylish visual popular drama rather than a succession of pancaked talking heads. [/QUOTE]

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