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<blockquote data-quote="Snarky Oracle!" data-source="post: 167043" data-attributes="member: 57984">It does seem like they were trying to return to DALLAS&#039; more rural, western roots. And I think they were in discussion about that with the network which was pushing for DALLAS to return to an episodic format in 1988 (Katzman nipped that in the bud when he agreeably told CBS that he was thinking about doing stories about Bobby and his old highschool basketball coach reconnecting, and so the network hushed up right fast).But it&#039;s the shlocky tone of Halleyville and the chain gang plots that killed it. If they&#039;d done it straight, those stories could have worked.The range war plot had a bunch of potential, too. But the Ewings handling it all on their own became silly... I wanted to find out years later that there was something buried out there on Southfork which Miss Ellie didn&#039;t want the authorities to find --- and perhaps that&#039;s the real reason she didn&#039;t want any drilling on Section 40. And maybe that&#039;s also what Wes Parmalee whispered in her ear just before whisked off after the Southfork barbecue...What was it? We could find out a couple of years later. I assume it&#039;s more of that nazi treasure buried under Falcon Crest and the Carrington estate. Or maybe it&#039;s just Pam.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Snarky Oracle!, post: 167043, member: 57984"] It does seem like they were trying to return to DALLAS' more rural, western roots. And I think they were in discussion about that with the network which was pushing for DALLAS to return to an episodic format in 1988 (Katzman nipped that in the bud when he agreeably told CBS that he was thinking about doing stories about Bobby and his old highschool basketball coach reconnecting, and so the network hushed up right fast). But it's the shlocky tone of Halleyville and the chain gang plots that killed it. If they'd done it straight, those stories could have worked. The range war plot had a bunch of potential, too. But the Ewings handling it all on their own became silly... I wanted to find out years later that there was something buried out there on Southfork which Miss Ellie didn't want the authorities to find --- and perhaps that's the real reason she didn't want any drilling on Section 40. And maybe that's also what Wes Parmalee whispered in her ear just before whisked off after the Southfork barbecue... What was it? We could find out a couple of years later. I assume it's more of that nazi treasure buried under Falcon Crest and the Carrington estate. Or maybe it's just Pam. [/QUOTE]

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