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<blockquote data-quote="Toni" data-source="post: 212252" data-attributes="member: 82">I consider predictability as part of the genre. It may be good (J.R. getting close to bankrupt every now and then) or bad (Sue Ellen falling off the wagon always). I think I wouldn´t like it so much if it hadn´t this element. I find it challenging intellectually. Come to hink that most of 357 &quot;Dallas&quot; episodes ended with a cliffhanger...You could predict the outcome or not, but it was part of the game. If it had remained self-contained, I´d have eventually get bored by it. Continuity made the show what it was, and it demanded attention from the viewer in order to keep the relationship with them going on. That´s why the Dream solution failed miserably: it demanded TOO MUCH from the viewer, ie remembering what had happened one year earlier.If I have to be 100% honest, I think that killing off Jock was predictable, because Jim Davis had died, and primetime dramas didn´t recast its leads (back then). Also, Sue Ellen going back to J.R. and Cliff being ruined by J.R. before trying to commit suicide. This had the word &quot;predictable&quot; written on it. IMO, that was the first critical point of the show. Katzman &amp; Paulsen saved it by creating the masterful storyline of the battle for Ewing Oil. Which was as unpredictable as it could be...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Toni, post: 212252, member: 82"] I consider predictability as part of the genre. It may be good (J.R. getting close to bankrupt every now and then) or bad (Sue Ellen falling off the wagon always). I think I wouldn´t like it so much if it hadn´t this element. I find it challenging intellectually. Come to hink that most of 357 "Dallas" episodes ended with a cliffhanger... You could predict the outcome or not, but it was part of the game. If it had remained self-contained, I´d have eventually get bored by it. Continuity made the show what it was, and it demanded attention from the viewer in order to keep the relationship with them going on. That´s why the Dream solution failed miserably: it demanded TOO MUCH from the viewer, ie remembering what had happened one year earlier. If I have to be 100% honest, I think that killing off Jock was predictable, because Jim Davis had died, and primetime dramas didn´t recast its leads (back then). Also, Sue Ellen going back to J.R. and Cliff being ruined by J.R. before trying to commit suicide. This had the word "predictable" written on it. IMO, that was the first critical point of the show. Katzman & Paulsen saved it by creating the masterful storyline of the battle for Ewing Oil. Which was as unpredictable as it could be... [/QUOTE]

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