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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Karin" data-source="post: 80043" data-attributes="member: 57167">Thank you everyone for your comments and feedback. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />Presea, you know I actually didn't like Naldo either! :lolo:Yet oddly enough I came to love writing for his sister Martha Marchetta. I am not sure why but I think the actress we cast in our mind might have something to do with it.I agree that JR/SE need to work on their issues. But if they work everything out too early in the story then what's left to write about?I really liked Clinton & Gore too. I guess even more now in retrospect when I know what came after them... <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" />But yeah looking back the 1990s seems like a better time period. Maybe that's a reason why I don't mind going back to the 1990's for this story. It reminds me of my teenage years...Ms Southworth, I agree that there are many characters in this story. I think if you count the kids you have 21 main characters which certainly is a lot. Unless you are writing a daytime soap opera that is... <img src="http://yoursmiles.org/msmile/pozitive/m1242.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":popcorn:" title="Popcorn    :popcorn:" data-shortname=":popcorn:" />Anyway you need to separate main characters from supporting characters and think of Martha Marchetta as an also starring kind of character. She is not a main character. Just a supporting one that will help make Jenna and her family's plot more interesting...I can understand why you are not excited about the character at this point and maybe you don't see the need for her. But believe me the character and the plot that we are doing does serve a purpose... <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />Margaret and Rebecca likes living together which is why you don't hear much about it. Miss Ellie do the occasional scene where she discusses her family and worries about them still. It's not something that's going to just go away.Well yeah the thread might have a 100 views in a day, but today it's also had 6 posts. So well maybe people click the thread to look for an update even when there isn't one...You don't need to explain the concept of a flashback scene to me. We already have some of those further on in this story. <img src="http://yoursmiles.org/msmile/fun/m0157.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":dance:" title="Dance    :dance:" data-shortname=":dance:" />I'm glad you enjoyed the Donna, Ray & Margaret interacts with the Gores update. Yeah we did check up something with Al Gore where he was talking about the environment to get some inspiration for what he would say. We wanted the lecture part to sound as autentic as possible and yeah their meeting of course serves as a way to establish just how well connected Donna is in Washington and which circles she moves in.Yeah of course I meant Cape Cod. It's just me who can't spell it. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin    :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" />Miss Texas 1967, I also check the board a lot on my mobile and I do the same as you do. Click some of the threads as soon as I've noticed something new has been posted. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" />On the mobile you can only see when someone's posted, but it doesn't say who posted last.Okay so it's back to the Oil Baron's for tonight's update: Back at Oil baron’s had Cassie just served their food and drinks so JR raised his glass to propose the first toast of the evening. “I would like to be the first to toast the happy couple. Congratulations on your engagement baby brother, you deserve all the happiness in the world.”“Thanks JR,” Bobby smiled.“Pamela I know you and I haven’t really seen eye to eye on everything. But I hope we can put our differences aside for one evening and have a good time,” JR said and they clicked their glasses together before they started to sip their drinks.“Thanks JR. I almost believe you mean that,” Pam smiled.“I do, I want this evening to be memorable,” JR smiled.“Well as long as it’s not too memorable,” Sue Ellen laughed.“What do you mean?” JR asked.“Oh I just came to think about the time when we went out to celebrate our first engagement,” Sue Ellen smiled. “You remember that, don’t you JR?”“Sure do,” JR laughed. “I mean how could I ever forget that evening?”“That sounds interesting, do tell us what happened,” Bobby said.“Oh not the thing you think, Sue Ellen insisted we’d wait until our wedding night for that…” JR grinned and she gave him a playful pat on the arm. “But she was worth waiting for…” he then added, as he looked at her lovingly.Sue Ellen held his gaze for a moment too long before she looked down. Yet breaking eye contact didn’t help her think of something else and the memories of that night still flooded back to her. But since she didn’t want to think of that, she hurried to switch the topic, “JR I believe Bobby and Pam wanted to know about our engagement dinner.”“Right, anyway so Sue Ellen and I had planned to have a romantic dinner just the two of us but Patricia invited herself…”“Patricia?” Bobby exclaimed.“Ouch that doesn’t sound like a romantic evening to me,” Pam made a face.“It sure wasn’t,” Sue Ellen laughed and JR joined her too, as they both remembered that evening as vividly as if it had been yesterday and not 25 years ago. “To make matters worse, mama had also invited 50 of her closest friends to celebrate with us.”“Oh no,” Bobby sighed.“Oh yes, she had rented the whole place and she expected her boyfriend to foot the bill for it,” Sue Ellen explained.“Patricia had a boyfriend?” Pam asked surprised.“Oh yes he was a real nerd who was nicknamed Gopher. Mama only liked him because he was rich,” Sue Ellen explained. “Unfortunately he was also high as a kite and the idiot mixed cocaine with booze.”“Oh no! What a dumb thing to do!” Pam exclaimed.“Sure sounds like it was a memorable party,” Bobby mused, “yet it’s strange since I can’t remember it at all!”“Well you were too busy jet setting with Jenna to attend,” JR explained. “But mama and daddy were there with Lucy.”“Ah,” Bobby nodded, as it made sense to him why he had no memory of the event now.“Yeah they were and so was Kristin,” Sue Ellen replied. “The girls were about the same age and they didn’t really get along that well at first. But then they hit it off when Kristin came up with an idea that was to Lucy’s liking.”“Oh-uh, am I right to guess those two weren’t up to anything good?” Pam asked.“You can say that again,” Sue Ellen smiled. “You’ll see they decided to play a little prank on Gopher, just to embarrass him some.”“Okay so what did they do?” Bobby asked.“They got up on stage and asked people to pay 2 dollars for the entertainment to start. Then once they had collected the money they went to tell Gopher that he had won a prize but would only receive it if he could sing a song on stage,” JR explained.“Oh no that’s not fun,” Pam sighed. “I know but they thought it was, to make matters worse they told him he had to make up his own lyrics to a famous song with Texas in the title and the lyrics had to be about me and JR,” Sue Ellen remembered. “Unfortunately Gopher was just high enough to think it sounded like a fun idea. So he went up there on stage and started to slur about how I had won Miss Texas and how much I loved JR and then he collapsed.”“Oh no,” Pam replied. “Did he survive?”“Yeah but by the time the paramedics showed up Sue Ellen and I thought it was about time we’d get the hell out of there,” JR said.“Yeah the whole place turned into a circus, Mama was hysterical, Kristin and Lucy were bawling their eyes out confessing all about their prank since they thought it was their fault Gopher was ill,” Sue Ellen said.“Yeah mama had to take care of the girls, daddy handled Patricia and Sue Ellen and I managed to escape from it all,” JR remembered.“But the evening was ruined,” Sue Ellen laughed.“It sure was,” JR laughed too.“Oh I don’t know about that, I mean it sounds to me like you had a quite fun time at that party. I mean you even got a special song lyrics dedicated to you,” Bobby said teasingly.“Yeah can you remember anything from the lyrics?” Pam laughed.“Not much, just that he sang that I love JR Ewing more today than I did yesterday,” Sue Ellen a said bit too loudly and everyone at the restaurant stared at them with wide eyes and you could hear a soar of voices. Sue Ellen blushed when she realized that the last part of their conversation had been overheard. Sure she wanted to make people doubt that the movie was based on her life with JR. But she hadn’t intended to do so by making people believe that she was still in love with JR. Because that rumor was a bit too close to the truth for comfort…</blockquote>

Verification: Who played Sue Ellen in Dallas?