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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Snarky Oracle!" data-source="post: 206162" data-attributes="member: 57984">I actually thought JR's Masterpiece was one of the best things nuDALLAS ever did.Mostly, though, nuDALLAS didn't work for the same reasons later-oldDALLAS didn't work. They got away from the core family dynamic... Audiences like well-cast stories with family skeletons and buried treasure (even literally), and whenever DALLAS (or the other shows) got away from that, the series tended to falter. Later-oldDALLAS and nuDALLAS didn't adhere to that concept, disowned earlier details, and so the audience loses interest.You can't help actor defections and whatnot, but when a show starts looking too outward, such that the past seems to have been lost, it's just a matter of time until it's all gone.</blockquote>