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<blockquote data-quote="Mel O&amp;#039;Drama" data-source="post: 275445" data-attributes="member: 23">Good point, Willie.As much as McElroy might have spoken out against the comparisons with Dynasty and Dallas it&#039;s pretty obvious that this is the kind of show RTE was intended to be. In which case I don&#039;t think it helped that RTE started at a time when American nighttime soaps were mostly past their creative peaks and plots were becoming increasingly outlandish. If that&#039;s the frame of reference then it&#039;s not a great starting point. And I suspect those involved in the writing would be more inclined to look at what was current in the American counterparts than how they&#039;d begun.Mind you, as you said, The Colbys had begun just the previous year and that show managed to get the balance more or less right. Same for Howards&#039; Way. Perhaps RTE would have benefitted from some of that series&#039; more grounded and balanced tone.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mel O'Drama, post: 275445, member: 23"] Good point, Willie. As much as McElroy might have spoken out against the comparisons with [I]Dynasty[/I] and [I]Dallas[/I] it's pretty obvious that this is the kind of show [I]RTE[/I] was intended to be. In which case I don't think it helped that RTE started at a time when American nighttime soaps were mostly past their creative peaks and plots were becoming increasingly outlandish. If that's the frame of reference then it's not a great starting point. And I suspect those involved in the writing would be more inclined to look at what was current in the American counterparts than how they'd begun. Mind you, as you said, [I]The Colbys [/I]had begun just the previous year and that show managed to get the balance more or less right. Same for [I]Howards' Way.[/I] Perhaps [I]RTE[/I] would have benefitted from some of that series' more grounded and balanced tone. [/QUOTE]

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