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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CeeCee72" data-source="post: 313818" data-attributes="member: 5055">All shows outlive their popularity. As others have said, the world was changing and tastes were changing. Having said that, many shows lose ratings and still manage to maintain quality until the end. Dallas didn't. To me that's what killed it. If it had been cancelled because of bad ratings but was still good, fine. But let's be honest, it was just awful.If I had to pick from the list, I will say writing. But it was also casting and production decisions.The dream started the slide. Somehow, season ten was good enough to ALMOST recover but then...1. Pam left. And that could have been survived if the plot hadn't been so awful. Mummy Pam sneaking out of the hospital. Katherine showing up then just getting dropped. Bobby not looking for Pam.  Viewers were supposed to believe that Pam left Christopher, a child she loved to the point of smothering obsession, on a whim.2. Breaking JR and Sue Ellen up over West Star. By that point, we had had TWO seasons of JR *coming to Jesus" over his feelings for Sue Ellen (Dream and season 10). They flushed all the character development down the toilet with his pursuit of Kimberly. JR could have maintained his evil edge without that and it felt like a rehash of old plot lines to me (Holly Harwood).2. The total destruction of Sue Ellen's character. That movie plot line was the dumbest thing I ever saw. It was so contrived. There was never the slightest chance she'd release that movie. She loved her son too much to do that to him. Oh, and SHE abandoned HER son to traipse off to London with a man she barely knew. She was consumed by bitter revenge and that wasn't the Sue Ellen we knew and loved.3. The marginalization and eventual dumping of Ellie, Clayton, Ray, and Lucy was catastrophic, especially considering the reasons they left. Ellie just up and abandoned the land she had loved more than anything else in her life? Ray followed Jenna out of the country when he wouldn't even follow Donna to the general store? More destruction of years of character development.4. Bad casting of new characters. April was the ONLY new character they got right. James was a horrible actor and annoying. Vanessa had ZERO chemistry with JR. Michelle was whiny and annoying. Those three characters could have been great, the casting was awful.5. The utter destruction of JR. He lost battles to the weakest characters. The whole shotgun marriage to Cally was insane. Then James and Michelle and De La Vega and...I could go on. Meanwhile, we never even got an acknowledgement from JR 's character about how losing Ellie, Sue Ellen, and John Ross was the real reason he fell apart.At the end, Dallas was schlock.</blockquote>

Verification: Who played JR Ewing?