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<blockquote data-quote="Snarky Oracle!" data-source="post: 329592" data-attributes="member: 57984">Although the season doesn&#039;t have to line up with when he episode originally aired necessarily. I mean, 83/84 year of DALLAS had &quot;summer&quot; episodes airing through December (the Chris Atkins camp counselor plot).For me, the wintry vibe of the 1978 miniseries and the TNTnuDALLAS reboot offered up the &quot;grimy Texas back roads&quot; thing in a way the &#039;80s show rarely did.But fall and winter can be beautiful too in their own ways, yes?And while I appreciate the early seasons avoiding holidays or too many cultural references (which tended not to work on DALLAS and yet did work in the early-seasons of oldDYNASTY before it quickly started sucking) I might have liked certain celebrations popping up in DALLAS&#039; closing years -- had the tone and the narrative not started stumbling instead. (I could see an American Thanksgiving at Southfork circa 1988, or even Christmas in 1989 with Ellie and Clayton dressing as Santa &amp; Mrs Claus, a prerequisite before the program was cancelled).It&#039;s been said before (by people here on this site) that DALLAS failed to grow creatively in the last half of its run, and that&#039;s hard to disagree with. But Katzman&#039;s rigid sense of creative non-experimentation kept the series in a frustrating headlock which ultimately turned to unfocused silliness -- a silliness which was far worse than, say, permitting camera movements and doing away with studio flat-lighting.You need a little Bradford May to counter the blandness of a Robert Caramico.[ATTACH=full]38501[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Snarky Oracle!, post: 329592, member: 57984"] Although the season doesn't have to line up with when he episode originally aired necessarily. I mean, 83/84 year of DALLAS had "summer" episodes airing through December (the Chris Atkins camp counselor plot). For me, the wintry vibe of the 1978 miniseries and the TNTnuDALLAS reboot offered up the "grimy Texas back roads" thing in a way the '80s show rarely did. But fall and winter can be beautiful too in their own ways, yes? And while I appreciate the early seasons avoiding holidays or too many cultural references (which tended not to work on DALLAS and yet [B]did [/B]work in the early-seasons of oldDYNASTY before it quickly started sucking) I might have liked certain celebrations popping up in DALLAS' closing years -- had the tone and the narrative not started stumbling instead. (I could see an American Thanksgiving at Southfork circa 1988, or even Christmas in 1989 with Ellie and Clayton dressing as Santa & Mrs Claus, a prerequisite before the program was cancelled). It's been said before (by people here on this site) that DALLAS failed to grow creatively in the last half of its run, and that's hard to disagree with. But Katzman's rigid sense of creative non-experimentation kept the series in a frustrating headlock which ultimately turned to unfocused silliness -- a silliness which was far worse than, say, permitting camera movements and doing away with studio flat-lighting. You need a little Bradford May to counter the blandness of a Robert Caramico. [ATTACH type="full" width="520px" alt="may.jpg"]38501[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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