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<blockquote data-quote="Snarky Oracle!" data-source="post: 348728" data-attributes="member: 57984">All of that really is true. DALLAS worked its way into the collective family psyche in a way few other shows ever have or could. Part of it was indeed the newness of serialization at the time, which made people feel like they could live-and-die with the characters in a way old-style stand-alone episodic TV never quite invited. (Which is one of the reasons the post-1985 slide of most of the genre was so painful for fans).But DALLAS, in particular, was unusually effective in this way. Whether it was the casting, the writing, the locations, the overall atmosphere -- or all of the above -- it just kind of tapped into something universal enough that just clicked with much of the planet. Especially its family dynamic which felt oddly three dimensional, despite being &quot;just a soap.&quot; As if the world and denizens of Southfork became a psychic extension of the audience&#039;s own family.Which is weird. But pretty much true.Patrick was right when he once said the show walked a rarefied &quot;hallowed ground&quot; for TV.The problem is, that&#039;s a difficult legacy to live up to, maintain or repeat.<img src="http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b78/Marky888/jockswill_zpso2brlkbn.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Snarky Oracle!, post: 348728, member: 57984"] All of that really is true. DALLAS worked its way into the collective family psyche in a way few other shows ever have or could. Part of it was indeed the newness of serialization at the time, which made people feel like they could live-and-die with the characters in a way old-style stand-alone episodic TV never quite invited. (Which is one of the reasons the post-1985 slide of most of the genre was so painful for fans). But DALLAS, in particular, was unusually effective in this way. Whether it was the casting, the writing, the locations, the overall atmosphere -- or all of the above -- it just kind of tapped into something universal enough that just clicked with much of the planet. Especially its family dynamic which felt oddly three dimensional, despite being "just a soap." As if the world and denizens of Southfork became a psychic extension of the audience's [I][B]own[/B][/I] family. Which is weird. But pretty much true. Patrick was right when he once said the show walked a rarefied "hallowed ground" for TV. The problem is, that's a difficult legacy to live up to, maintain or repeat. [IMG]http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b78/Marky888/jockswill_zpso2brlkbn.jpg[/IMG] [/QUOTE]

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