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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Michael Torrance" data-source="post: 71185" data-attributes="member: 719">Dynasty did not have such "jump the shark" moments. Dynasty reinvented itself--for better or worse-- as "keep jumping over more and more sharks" already in season 2. Un-reality was what defined it, which is why it climbed back to the top five at the end of season 6 even after Moldavia when yet another crazy unrealistic plot surfaced (oh yeah, grandma Ellen did not die quietly after all like we said in season one. She was in fact called Fallon (silly us) and died in a fire because she was abandoned by a never-before-heard son). The wilder Dynasty was, the more its fans loved it. Lily pond cat-fights, dolls thrown off roofs passing as babies, poison paint driving people mad, you name it.  Dynasty slipped in the ratings only by the end of season 7, when the producers decided to make Dynasty more grounded, and they grounded it deep in the ratings pit. Dallas, on the other hand, was always more realistic as a show--especially the relationships between characters were realistic as was the viewers' commitment to the characters, even when the plots started getting less plausible. Dallas invited viewers to mourn for Bobby and had characters deal with that grief as a reflection of the one viewers felt. Once you pull the rug from under your audience like that, a committed core will keep on watching but the rest are out the door.</blockquote>