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<blockquote data-quote="Richard Channing" data-source="post: 201328" data-attributes="member: 10">Change is good, if it&#039;s good change. In fact it&#039;s absolutely necessary if a show is to not only survive, but thrive over a long period of time. I can understand people&#039;s nostalgia for a formula that really worked, and worked for a long time, but there are only so many times Dallas could tell the same stories. How many times can JR and Sue Ellen break up and make up? I didn&#039;t find it that unrealistic but many members on here grew tired of it. How many fights for Ewing Oil can there be? How many times can Cliff get set up?I think when things are getting a bit stale and repetitive is when new competent writers are needed to shake things up. But sadly that&#039;s not what happened on Dallas. And when familiar faces leave they need to be replaced with equally dynamic, well cast characters who change the status quo and set the stage for new and interesting directions for the established characters to take. Again, unfortunately this didn&#039;t happen. They tried to do it with James and Cally etc. but the writing was already feeling tired and jaded at this point and they couldn&#039;t hold a candle to the core characters they were replacing.So change was needed, in fact it was inevitable, but a series of bad choices meant a drop in quality that spelled doom for the show.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Richard Channing, post: 201328, member: 10"] Change is good, if it's good change. In fact it's absolutely necessary if a show is to not only survive, but thrive over a long period of time. I can understand people's nostalgia for a formula that really worked, and worked for a long time, but there are only so many times Dallas could tell the same stories. How many times can JR and Sue Ellen break up and make up? I didn't find it that unrealistic but many members on here grew tired of it. How many fights for Ewing Oil can there be? How many times can Cliff get set up? I think when things are getting a bit stale and repetitive is when new competent writers are needed to shake things up. But sadly that's not what happened on Dallas. And when familiar faces leave they need to be replaced with equally dynamic, well cast characters who change the status quo and set the stage for new and interesting directions for the established characters to take. Again, unfortunately this didn't happen. They tried to do it with James and Cally etc. but the writing was already feeling tired and jaded at this point and they couldn't hold a candle to the core characters they were replacing. So change was needed, in fact it was inevitable, but a series of bad choices meant a drop in quality that spelled doom for the show. [/QUOTE]

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