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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Crimson" data-source="post: 377005" data-attributes="member: 5079">And therein was the problem, indeed.  By the second half of the 80s, all of the soaps (except, I guess, KNOTS) had adopted variations of the same tone: smirky and frivolous.  No one involved in the shows were even trying to take it seriously.   I'm hard pressed to think of any late era DALLAS storyline that couldn't have worked with better execution.   The Haleyville plot, for instance, should have been rustic and seedy, rather feeling like GREEN ACRES. The second major problem to me is that the producers, for some reason, seemed to think the audience wanted a bunch of new characters.  Some fresh blood was necessary, but there were plenty of established B- and C- level characters who should have been elevated to the main cast rather than new characters no one cared about.  The all-too-brief  re-appearances of Afton and Katherine felt like a kick in the teeth.</blockquote>