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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Snarky Oracle!" data-source="post: 352364" data-attributes="member: 57984">The drumbeats would have been fine, even clever, had been used with all new shots of the city and its surrounding environs -- but by using old shots of the city, interspersed with the actors' head shots, it felt amateurish and desperate.Because it was. So blame producer Cliff Fenneman (who apparently designed them, but were AOK'd by Katzman).The drumbeat thing could've worked, in order to make the theme of the latter seasons more dynamic and faster, but not the way they did it, which seemed designed incompetently to fool us absurdly.I know they'd stopped filming on location in Texas for a month by 1989, but they couldn't hire somebody in a helicopter for half-a-day in Dallas to obtain new footage of the city to use in the opening theme (for Seasons 13 and 14 and beyond) instead of relying on the old footage simply re-arranged?It felt pathetic. But even within the body of the show, Katzman had taken to repeating ad nauseum the same tired establishing shots of the city -- usually drabbest ones -- in the final seasons... Yes, yes, they always repeated establishing shots of the city and the ranch, but not in the this-show-is-now-dead way they did near the end.</blockquote>