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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Snarky Oracle!" data-source="post: 321113" data-attributes="member: 57984">Paulse Paulsen...  Must .... have .... Paulsen.When Katzman and Art Lewis left with Duffy in 1985, Capice refused to give Paulsen the show-runner position. (Instead, KNOTS' Peter Dunne was brought in -- and Dunne, though talented, seemed to think DALLAS needed to be reformed, and he blew it.)Katzman seemed to recognize how good Paulsen's sense of seasonal structure was and, as such, gave Paulsen a lot of leeway. But there wasn't a post-'WSJR?' season that worked in which Paulsen wasn't involved. And when Katzman made the decision to let DALLAS turn overtly parodic, Paulsen left the show. And it never recovered.Capice leaving was mostly fine. But after Katzman had claimed the throne, he slipped into that arguably narcissistic presumption that as long as he was in charge, everything was AOK.... So if Capice's leaving had a cost, it was that it no longer left Katzman anyone to fight against. So he got fat and lazy.</blockquote>