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<blockquote data-quote="Presea" data-source="post: 75409" data-attributes="member: 24">I am glad that Melissa yelled at John Ross here, but did sound like she was stereotyping men from England. John Ross is a horndog for wanting to just hurry up and have sex on their first date. And he can&#039;t blame his father for his own actions. I hate to say it, but I really don&#039;t like John Ross in this story. He is mostly just a whiny little brat who wants to take the easy way out of things and can&#039;t grow up and take responsibility for himself. He is almost an adult, so it is time he started acting like one. Unfortunately, it is common for kids their age to hook up fast and have make-out fests on their first dates, but it is still pretty sad that they don&#039;t have much reason for wanting to be together beyond: &quot;I like you.&quot; and &quot;I like you, too.&quot;Cliff is as stupid as usual, but I expected something like this to happen. It was funny when they all went in the pool, though. Sue Ellen&#039;s reaction is quite disappointing, though. It looks JR is already completely forgiven, and that is just sad. Also, why doesn&#039;t she try to solve the problem with Don Dorkwood herself? It&#039;s so sad that after how strong she became in the later seasons, she has now basically been reduced to a helpless and easily manipulated puppet who is clapping for JR for proposing to take care of something that she would have had no problem taking care of herself in the canon-based later years of Dallas.Just what is up with all of this profanity? It would make sense if this was for something where the characters actually cussed like this, but it just comes off as very OOC for Dallas. When did Afton have such a foul mouth? And since Sue Ellen is adopting her spineless &quot;perfect lady&quot; role from some of the earlier seasons, someone should tell her that it is not very ladylike at all to swear. (And no Sue Ellen, just marrying JR does not mean that&nbsp; you are a Ewing!) And before you claim that it makes sense because they used the word s*** in the TNT Dallas, you should know that I don&#039;t even consider that as an excuse since those writers had no idea what they were doing, and that they probably felt that level swearing was required just because it was a cable show. And sadly, all of this actually makes their usage of it look mild. I&#039;m sorry if all of this sounds negative, but I do believe that the concept of being in-character is important when it comes to writing.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Presea, post: 75409, member: 24"] I am glad that Melissa yelled at John Ross here, but did sound like she was stereotyping men from England. John Ross is a horndog for wanting to just hurry up and have sex on their first date. And he can't blame his father for his own actions. I hate to say it, but I really don't like John Ross in this story. He is mostly just a whiny little brat who wants to take the easy way out of things and can't grow up and take responsibility for himself. He is almost an adult, so it is time he started acting like one. Unfortunately, it is common for kids their age to hook up fast and have make-out fests on their first dates, but it is still pretty sad that they don't have much reason for wanting to be together beyond: "I like you." and "I like you, too." Cliff is as stupid as usual, but I expected something like this to happen. It was funny when they all went in the pool, though. Sue Ellen's reaction is quite disappointing, though. It looks JR is already completely forgiven, and that is just sad. Also, why doesn't she try to solve the problem with Don Dorkwood herself? It's so sad that after how strong she became in the later seasons, she has now basically been reduced to a helpless and easily manipulated puppet who is clapping for JR for proposing to take care of something that she would have had no problem taking care of herself in the canon-based later years of Dallas. Just what is up with all of this profanity? It would make sense if this was for something where the characters actually cussed like this, but it just comes off as very OOC for Dallas. When did Afton have such a foul mouth? And since Sue Ellen is adopting her spineless "perfect lady" role from some of the earlier seasons, someone should tell her that it is not very ladylike at all to swear. (And no Sue Ellen, just marrying JR does not mean that you are a Ewing!) And before you claim that it makes sense because they used the word s*** in the TNT Dallas, you should know that I don't even consider that as an excuse since those writers had no idea what they were doing, and that they probably felt that level swearing was required just because it was a cable show. And sadly, all of this actually makes their usage of it look mild. I'm sorry if all of this sounds negative, but I do believe that the concept of being in-character is important when it comes to writing. [/QUOTE]

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