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<blockquote data-quote="Miss Texas 1967" data-source="post: 211737" data-attributes="member: 36"><p>[USER=102]@Kenny Coyote[/USER] 'verbalised' my thoughts best. If the show was exactly the same as it is now, scriptwise, it wasn't called Dallas, there was no publicity connecting it to Dallas, the actors weren't returning from an existing original, there was nothing to throw back to something nostalgic, if it was just another show that aired starting June 2012, it wouldn't have reached nearly as many people and my bet is it wouldn't have been as polarising as it is now, nor as semi-successful. There was nothing stopping new people who knew nothing of the original series from watching the show, the viewing numbers weren't great though and considering they were likely made up of a considerable amount of people returning week after week out of loyalty to the original series, the show was being propped up by the popularity of the Dallas franchise. Cut the Dallas (series not city) connection completely and you're left with a show that was fine but nothing special, keep the Dallas connection and you're left with a show that people are still critiquing 6-7 years after it was cancelled, critiquing because they weren't satisfied with how the one chance to get a whole bunch of original cast members back to do a continuation of a beloved series ended up playing out. The show could have been amazing had it been placed in the hands of people who actually cared and knew something about what they were committing to, but it was disappointing because that's not what we got. If the show had not been called or connected to Dallas it would have just been another forgotten drama people might have said they stopped watching because by the third season the focus was on something very different to what was laid out in the first season, with the Dallas connection the disappointment goes deeper.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Miss Texas 1967, post: 211737, member: 36"] [USER=102]@Kenny Coyote[/USER] 'verbalised' my thoughts best. If the show was exactly the same as it is now, scriptwise, it wasn't called Dallas, there was no publicity connecting it to Dallas, the actors weren't returning from an existing original, there was nothing to throw back to something nostalgic, if it was just another show that aired starting June 2012, it wouldn't have reached nearly as many people and my bet is it wouldn't have been as polarising as it is now, nor as semi-successful. There was nothing stopping new people who knew nothing of the original series from watching the show, the viewing numbers weren't great though and considering they were likely made up of a considerable amount of people returning week after week out of loyalty to the original series, the show was being propped up by the popularity of the Dallas franchise. Cut the Dallas (series not city) connection completely and you're left with a show that was fine but nothing special, keep the Dallas connection and you're left with a show that people are still critiquing 6-7 years after it was cancelled, critiquing because they weren't satisfied with how the one chance to get a whole bunch of original cast members back to do a continuation of a beloved series ended up playing out. The show could have been amazing had it been placed in the hands of people who actually cared and knew something about what they were committing to, but it was disappointing because that's not what we got. If the show had not been called or connected to Dallas it would have just been another forgotten drama people might have said they stopped watching because by the third season the focus was on something very different to what was laid out in the first season, with the Dallas connection the disappointment goes deeper. [/QUOTE]
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