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<blockquote data-quote="Snarky Oracle!" data-source="post: 310544" data-attributes="member: 57984">Some producers do good work and then burn out and lose focus or objectivity. It&#039;s hard to believe the same producers who made the first two excellent seasons of DYNASTY were the same ones who churned out the incompetent crap which followed.With time, Katzman seemed to develop contempt for the audience (Susan Howard called it &quot;abuse&quot;) just as the DYNASTY brass seemed contemptuous of its actors.Anyway, Katzman produced the last few seasons of GUNSMOKE and did a great job, but he had a hand in firing Amanda Blake because she didn&#039;t want Miss Kitty to be brutally beaten and raped yet again.The season which opened with &quot;Who Shot JR?&quot; was adequate plot-wise, but was dry and drab. Once David Paulsen wandered into the show -- someone whose narrative skills Katzman seemed to respect -- DALLAS regained a focus it might never have had Paulsen not been hired. And once Paulsen was gone, just one year after Victoria exited, DALLAS was never quite right again.The decision to go overtly satirical might have been one of the reasons Paulsen wanted to leave DALLAS. When he quit, Larry said it was a good thing because Paulsen &quot;doesn&#039;t have a sense of humor.&quot;&nbsp;&nbsp; After that, DALLAS emerging sense of humor tanked the series... David Jacobs has said that while these kinds of shows can have humor and satire going on underneath the surface, it must be played &quot;absolutely straight&quot; on the face of it... which is why the nuDYNASTY is so sneer-inducing, even though in some ways it&#039;s more competent than the original.The jury will probably always be out on Lenny Katzman. He also hated Bradford May&#039;s camerawork, and didn&#039;t seem to like anything which smacked of artsy-ness.. which may be why, as others have stated before, that DALLAS ceased to grow creatively in the last-half of its run.<img src="https://i.pinimg.com/originals/4c/89/96/4c8996285ee230df2ae3f7a95d7aa499.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Snarky Oracle!, post: 310544, member: 57984"] Some producers do good work and then burn out and lose focus or objectivity. It's hard to believe the same producers who made the first two excellent seasons of DYNASTY were the same ones who churned out the incompetent crap which followed. With time, Katzman seemed to develop contempt for the audience (Susan Howard called it "abuse") just as the DYNASTY brass seemed contemptuous of its actors. Anyway, Katzman produced the last few seasons of GUNSMOKE and did a great job, but he had a hand in firing Amanda Blake because she didn't want Miss Kitty to be brutally beaten and raped yet again. The season which opened with "Who Shot JR?" was adequate plot-wise, but was dry and drab. Once David Paulsen wandered into the show -- someone whose narrative skills Katzman seemed to respect -- DALLAS regained a focus it might never have had Paulsen not been hired. And once Paulsen was gone, just one year after Victoria exited, DALLAS was never quite right again. The decision to go overtly satirical might have been one of the reasons Paulsen wanted to leave DALLAS. When he quit, Larry said it was a good thing because Paulsen "doesn't have a sense of humor." After that, DALLAS emerging sense of humor tanked the series... David Jacobs has said that while these kinds of shows can have humor and satire going on underneath the surface, it must be played "absolutely straight" on the face of it... which is why the nuDYNASTY is so sneer-inducing, even though in some ways it's more competent than the original. The jury will probably always be out on Lenny Katzman. He also hated Bradford May's camerawork, and didn't seem to like anything which smacked of artsy-ness.. which may be why, as others have stated before, that DALLAS ceased to grow creatively in the last-half of its run. [IMG]https://i.pinimg.com/originals/4c/89/96/4c8996285ee230df2ae3f7a95d7aa499.jpg[/IMG] [/QUOTE]

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Who played JR Ewing?