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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Snarky Oracle!" data-source="post: 351434" data-attributes="member: 57984">Shame that Katzman preferred the Spelling-esque flat-lighting because he saw DALLAS as "a cartoon" (as did Larry, by his own admission). Cinematography -- like music score, direction, writing, editing, and acting -- contribute to the texture of the thing, and its relative sense of "reality". Which is important, even for -- perhaps especially for a "soap."Bradford May's camerawork in Season 7 (dvd) does so much to make life at Southfork feel so palpably three-dimensional, the Hollywood studio shot interior scenes far more convincing as occurring in Texas than any other period of the show. The sense of place is so much stronger. Even the silences are somehow "louder."Emotional subtext is an actual thing, and it's not just an artistically pretentious concept.  <img src="http://www.tellytalk.net/attachments/th2-jpg.43124/" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>