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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Michael Torrance" data-source="post: 159701" data-attributes="member: 719"><p>I don't think it matters if the show had lasted (or had good ratings) for another one or ten seasons. I think it matters that the dream made the whole intellectual property a joke and invalidated the viewer experience: like, "you don't know what you have been watching was actually a waste of your whole year." After the "who shot J.R." cliffhanger, the show grabbed a worldwide audience and made them obsess over the importance of watching each new episode because it would be the subject of water-cooler talks everywhere. Now people were told they could have been going out every Friday during the 1985-86 season, or at least rent something for the VCR. Or even watch Knight Rider on NBC, which turned out to be more realistic...</p></blockquote><p></p>