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<blockquote data-quote="Snarky Oracle!" data-source="post: 394704" data-attributes="member: 57984"><p>FALCON CREST and KONTS LANDING always showed their titles on-screen, and it seemed appropriate for those series (especially before CREST started to suck).</p><p></p><p>I also agree that it was good that DALLAS, which used quite clever episodic titles, did <strong>not </strong>put those titles on screen... I'm not sure why, exactly, but I think it has something to do with the self-consciousness of the on-screen use of episodic titles that just "didn't fit" DALLAS. There's something kind of preachy about such titles, something slightly pretentious almost (which isn't necessarily bad, depending on the show). And that wasn't DALLAS.</p><p></p><p>Which leads us to the inevitable topic of <em>DYNASTY</em>'s episodic titles. (The first season and a half were apparently named after the fact -- which is why they weren't as bad). I was <strong>also </strong>glad DYNASTY didn't put them on screen either -- but perhaps they should have: it's hard to use "The Wedding" or "The Vendetta" or "The Party" or "The Dinner" multiple times and get away with it when those titles appear on screen.</p><p></p><p>In fact, given the pretentious self-consciousness of DYNASTY, it's weird they <strong>didn't </strong>put their titles on screen.</p><p></p><p>Once Paulsen got there for Season 9, the DYNASTY titles, not surprisingly, got much better.</p><p></p><p>PS: the only title DALLAS repeated by accident was "The Sting."</p><p></p><p><img src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/o0BGhMEFg-c/hqdefault.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 619px" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Snarky Oracle!, post: 394704, member: 57984"] FALCON CREST and KONTS LANDING always showed their titles on-screen, and it seemed appropriate for those series (especially before CREST started to suck). I also agree that it was good that DALLAS, which used quite clever episodic titles, did [B]not [/B]put those titles on screen... I'm not sure why, exactly, but I think it has something to do with the self-consciousness of the on-screen use of episodic titles that just "didn't fit" DALLAS. There's something kind of preachy about such titles, something slightly pretentious almost (which isn't necessarily bad, depending on the show). And that wasn't DALLAS. Which leads us to the inevitable topic of [I]DYNASTY[/I]'s episodic titles. (The first season and a half were apparently named after the fact -- which is why they weren't as bad). I was [B]also [/B]glad DYNASTY didn't put them on screen either -- but perhaps they should have: it's hard to use "The Wedding" or "The Vendetta" or "The Party" or "The Dinner" multiple times and get away with it when those titles appear on screen. In fact, given the pretentious self-consciousness of DYNASTY, it's weird they [B]didn't [/B]put their titles on screen. Once Paulsen got there for Season 9, the DYNASTY titles, not surprisingly, got much better. PS: the only title DALLAS repeated by accident was "The Sting." [IMG width="619px"]https://i.ytimg.com/vi/o0BGhMEFg-c/hqdefault.jpg[/IMG] [/QUOTE]
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