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<blockquote data-quote="James from London" data-source="post: 353585" data-attributes="member: 22">Only one bit of Nolly jarred with me and that&#039;s the caption at the end the read something like &quot;Noele Gordon died in 1985. Crossroads didn&#039;t survive without her; it was axed in 1988.&quot; I can understand why, but this was intentionally misleading. Gordon had been written out in 1981, which means the show lasted seven or eight years without her: that&#039;s not too shabby. I kept watching Crossroads until the end -- maybe not quite as regularly as I had as a kid, but that had more to do with me growing up than the quality of the show itself -- and it remained just as (un)watchable as it always has been, and just as schizoid: rape and fatal heroin overdoses mingling with recording studios&nbsp; in the motel basement and Miss Diane turning into a donkey. It&#039;s sentimental revisionism to suggest that Meg-era Xrds was some sort of sacred golden age. For all its memorable characters and storylines, there were weeks, if not months, at a time when 70s Xrds was so boring it was like watching paint dry, but one accepted it simply because there was nothing else on. From beginning to end, Crossroads was, as Fictional Real-Life Diane described in Nolly, &quot;a tatty little soap&quot;, albeit one that occasionally unexpectedly (unintentionally?) transcended expectation:Xrds was never socially relevant and that&#039;s why people both loved and hated it, but I think the arrivals of Brookside and then especially EastEnders demonstrated as never before how soaps could be relevant while still conforming to the unspoken rules of the genre that Xrds and Coronation Street had laid down. That, added to the channel&#039;s growing distaste for it (a parallel can be made with what was happening at the same time to the equally long-running Doctor Who, which the BBC didn&#039;t even bother to officially cancel before ceasing production the year after Crossroads) that finally did for it.Nolly was great and everything, but ultimately she wasn&#039;t Crossroads.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="James from London, post: 353585, member: 22"] Only one bit of [I]Nolly[/I] jarred with me and that's the caption at the end the read something like [I]"Noele Gordon died in 1985. Crossroads didn't survive without her; it was axed in 1988."[/I] I can understand why, but this was intentionally misleading. Gordon had been written out in 1981, which means the show lasted seven or eight years without her: that's not too shabby. I kept watching [I]Crossroads [/I]until the end -- maybe not quite as regularly as I had as a kid, but that had more to do with me growing up than the quality of the show itself -- and it remained just as (un)watchable as it always has been, and just as schizoid: rape and fatal heroin overdoses mingling with recording studios in the motel basement and Miss Diane turning into a donkey. It's sentimental revisionism to suggest that Meg-era[I] Xrds[/I] was some sort of sacred golden age. For all its memorable characters and storylines, there were weeks, if not months, at a time when 70s [I]Xrds[/I] was so boring it was like watching paint dry, but one accepted it simply because there was nothing else on. From beginning to end, [I]Crossroads [/I]was, as Fictional Real-Life Diane described in [I]Nolly[/I], "a tatty little soap", albeit one that occasionally unexpectedly (unintentionally?) transcended expectation: [I]Xrds[/I] was never socially relevant and that's why people both loved and hated it, but I think the arrivals of [I]Brookside[/I] and then especially [I]EastEnders[/I] demonstrated as never before how soaps [I]could[/I] be relevant while still conforming to the unspoken rules of the genre that [I]Xrds[/I] and [I]Coronation Street[/I] had laid down. That, added to the channel's growing distaste for it (a parallel can be made with what was happening at the same time to the equally long-running [I]Doctor Who,[/I] which the BBC didn't even bother to officially cancel before ceasing production the year after [I]Crossroads[/I]) that finally did for it. Nolly was great and everything, but ultimately she wasn't [I]Crossroads.[/I] [/QUOTE]

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