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<blockquote data-quote="Snarky Oracle!" data-source="post: 329776" data-attributes="member: 57984">DALLAS became so huge so quickly, that it had become a literal legend in its own time within just a couple of years of &#039;Who Shot JR?&#039;.There&#039;s always a lot of woulda/coulda/shoulda in these topics, and no series is perfect -- especially when it runs some 14 odd seasons. But if only the Donna Reed debacle hadn&#039;t happened (which seemed to mark the start of the show&#039;s descent) and Bobby&#039;s revival had not been explained in a single scene as a dream, and if Katzman had not repeatedly upstaged and eventually replaced David Paulsen with Calvin Clements Jr and the returning Art Lewis and the goofy Howard Lakin (although I&#039;d hate to have missed Season 9 of DYNASTY, which Paulsen helmed)...Susan Howard observed that the audience was &quot;abused again&quot; over one of DALLAS&#039; avoidable disasters they chose not to avoid, and one does begin to feel that Katzman seemingly developed a contempt for the audience over time -- like a doomed relationship where one partner loves the other and that love is not only not reciprocated, but the unloving partner becomes sneeringly bemused at the power they have over the other who so over-values them.Over on DYNASTY, the producers merely seemed contemptuous of their own well-cast actors because they knew they needed those actors in order to physically make the show ... the brass there never seemed aware that the audience even existed.Which is why the Wes Parmalee plotline was the karmic epicentre of all that DALLAS truly was -- ghosts of patriarchs, craziness and blurry visuals, and dreams that weren&#039;t dreams yet non-dreams which were dreams, in all its glory: the greatest fabulous mess of all time, at the very least.[ATTACH=full]38564[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Snarky Oracle!, post: 329776, member: 57984"] DALLAS became so huge so quickly, that it had become a literal legend in its own time within just a couple of years of 'Who Shot JR?'. There's always a lot of woulda/coulda/shoulda in these topics, and no series is perfect -- especially when it runs some 14 odd seasons. But[B] if only[/B] the Donna Reed debacle hadn't happened (which seemed to mark the start of the show's descent) and Bobby's revival had not been explained in a single scene as a dream, and if Katzman had not repeatedly upstaged and eventually replaced David Paulsen with Calvin Clements Jr and the returning Art Lewis and the goofy Howard Lakin (although I'd hate to have missed Season 9 of DYNASTY, which Paulsen helmed)... Susan Howard observed that the audience was "abused again" over one of DALLAS' avoidable disasters they chose not to avoid, and one does begin to feel that Katzman seemingly developed a contempt for the audience over time -- like a doomed relationship where one partner loves the other and that love is not only not reciprocated, but the unloving partner becomes sneeringly bemused at the power they have over the other who so over-values them. Over on DYNASTY, the producers merely seemed contemptuous of their own well-cast actors because they knew they needed those actors in order to physically make the show ... the brass there never seemed aware that the audience even existed. Which is why the Wes Parmalee plotline was the karmic epicentre of all that DALLAS truly was -- ghosts of patriarchs, craziness and blurry visuals, and dreams that weren't dreams yet non-dreams which [B]were [/B]dreams, in all its glory: the [B]greatest fabulous mess of all time[/B], at the very least. [ATTACH type="full" width="763px"]38564[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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