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<blockquote data-quote="Snarky Oracle!" data-source="post: 403588" data-attributes="member: 57984"><p>Larry admitted a few months later that the trip to Europe and Russia "didn't work." Even though it had the conceit of being the first American series in history to film behind The Iron Curtain... And to think of all the budget rubles they spent doing that -- and then they wound up <strong>not </strong>going to Texas that summer for the first time for their annual location shooting.</p><p></p><p>I suppose the intention was to freshen up the more-than-decade-old show, but if the stories aren't there, then they just aren't there.</p><p></p><p>It's funny about DALLAS and Dallas. I guess I can understand why a show that huge might occasionally get restless and feel a need to stray away from home, but, for some weird reason, it isn't usually very successful for DALLAS. (Even the show's trip to Hong Kong in Season 8 was crippled by excessive looping -- way overused that year anyway -- and the fact that the city was so hazy when they visited that the skyline was barely visible during the daytime that Pam's and Sue Ellen's little restaurant scene could have been filmed anywhere, despite the panoramic window through which we could see very little). But DALLAS was an innately Texas-centric show, for some reason. Very inward-looking. Whenever the narrative -- or the camera -- wandered away from the Lone Star State for very long, the audience got itchy for everything to return to Southfork or Elm Street.</p><p></p><p>I guess that's a compliment to the illusion the series conjured. Leonard Katzman at the time acknowledged that DALLAS had created an effectively fictional Dallas within the real-life city of Dallas.</p><p></p><p>For the same reason, pop culture references never worked on DALLAS. And the producers seemed to realize it, rarely using them.</p><p></p><p>The on-location scenes would have better suited their friends over on DYNASTY -- a show which cried out for an on-screen international jet-setty element, but its producer, Aaron Spelling, was infamously cheap and wouldn't spring for his top show to even walk outside of the studio (even though he allowed his LOVE BOAT shlock to film around the world a couple of times a year).</p><p></p><p><img src="https://i.pinimg.com/originals/5e/2b/db/5e2bdb10fc75fde762d4eddafd08e4a1.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 788px" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Snarky Oracle!, post: 403588, member: 57984"] Larry admitted a few months later that the trip to Europe and Russia "didn't work." Even though it had the conceit of being the first American series in history to film behind The Iron Curtain... And to think of all the budget rubles they spent doing that -- and then they wound up [B]not [/B]going to Texas that summer for the first time for their annual location shooting. I suppose the intention was to freshen up the more-than-decade-old show, but if the stories aren't there, then they just aren't there. It's funny about DALLAS and Dallas. I guess I can understand why a show that huge might occasionally get restless and feel a need to stray away from home, but, for some weird reason, it isn't usually very successful for DALLAS. (Even the show's trip to Hong Kong in Season 8 was crippled by excessive looping -- way overused that year anyway -- and the fact that the city was so hazy when they visited that the skyline was barely visible during the daytime that Pam's and Sue Ellen's little restaurant scene could have been filmed anywhere, despite the panoramic window through which we could see very little). But DALLAS was an innately Texas-centric show, for some reason. Very inward-looking. Whenever the narrative -- or the camera -- wandered away from the Lone Star State for very long, the audience got itchy for everything to return to Southfork or Elm Street. I guess that's a compliment to the illusion the series conjured. Leonard Katzman at the time acknowledged that DALLAS had created an effectively fictional Dallas within the real-life city of Dallas. For the same reason, pop culture references never worked on DALLAS. And the producers seemed to realize it, rarely using them. The on-location scenes would have better suited their friends over on DYNASTY -- a show which cried out for an on-screen international jet-setty element, but its producer, Aaron Spelling, was infamously cheap and wouldn't spring for his top show to even walk outside of the studio (even though he allowed his LOVE BOAT shlock to film around the world a couple of times a year). [IMG width="788px"]https://i.pinimg.com/originals/5e/2b/db/5e2bdb10fc75fde762d4eddafd08e4a1.jpg[/IMG] [/QUOTE]
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