Dallas – The Complete
Twelfth Season (Warner DVD)
Picture:
C- Sound: C Extras: D Episodes: C-
For those
unfamiliar with the long running hit TV series Dallas,
here is a way to catchy up by our coverage of the first 11 seasons:
One through Eight
http://www.fulvuedrive-in.com/review/6625/Dallas+%E2%80%93+The+Complete
Nine
http://www.fulvuedrive-in.com/review/7266/Dallas+-+Season+Nine+(Warner+Bros
Ten
http://www.fulvuedrive-in.com/review/8054/Dallas+%E2%80%93+The+Complete
Eleven
http://www.fulvuedrive-in.com/review/8515/Dallas+%E2%80%93+The+Complete
At this
point, like even Dynasty repeating
itself too often, the show was lost in coming up with new ideas or characters
as they had already had so many guest stars and new actors throughout the years
and even shooting J.R. again was preposterous, but the ratings were good enough
for CBS to keep supporting the show as the network became desperate to hold on
to any hits they had; not being able to come up with new ones and serving an
increasingly older audience.
More
money was being put into the show, but it still had that certain squared-off
phony look that it started with and could never shake. Dynasty
had outclassed it from the start and even the actors seem like they are getting
bored at this point. I give Larry Hagman
credit for being able to stay a mean so-and-so to this point in ways that
always shocks those used to his nice guy persona on the still-popular I Dream Of Jeannie. Without him, they would have axed the show a
while ago.
The 1.33
X 1 image is among the worst of all sets to date, with not only a strained look
and detail issues, but a finish on old analog video so bad that you again have
all kinds of digital layers of digititis and aliasing issues that makes one
wonder why they did not go back to the film prints and fix this. The Dolby Digital 1.0 Mono is weak and
terrible, not even sounding like a show from its time. There are no extras.
- Nicholas Sheffo
