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Dallas - The Original Series
How Dallas dated through the 80s
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<blockquote data-quote="Willie Oleson" data-source="post: 364471" data-attributes="member: 8"><p>And perhaps "dated" is partially defined by<em> how </em> we remember a certain era.</p><p></p><p>...or a certain part of the soap.</p><p></p><p>"Family at war" seems pretty timeless to me therefore I'm not sure if it really applies to DALLAS. The pilot series was a flawless portmanteau that gave us the basics of the Ewing universe, the first full season fleshed out the characters through various dramas and adventures and the second series was soap heaven with quintessential DALLAS characters like Kristin and Alan Beam - the needy and the hungry - while JR pulled off his first and epic oil scheme. The revelation of Jock's crazy first wife which has more than a touch of gothic, Seth Stone's suicide, Pam "losing" baby John Ross to his biological mother, Miss Ellie allowing herself to be courted as part of her mental healing process - it just keeps giving and giving.</p><p>Compared to all that it makes Katherine Wentworth's obsession look like run-of-the-mill soap no matter how entertaining she was. Bobby's death is still considered the biggest game changer for a soap series as a whole and yet the tragic death of Ted Dinard in DYNASTY looks much more soapier, more "Peyton Place".</p><p></p><p>Anyway, I think the horror and comedy genre (because they're so very similar) suffer the most from the aging process. Archie Bunker who is anti-this and anti-that looks very tired from a 21st century point of view. And while AYBS? Mr. Humpries <em>is</em> a very funny character, the double entendre hinting at homosexuality or Mrs. Slocombe's....cat has gone very stale, to say the least.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Willie Oleson, post: 364471, member: 8"] And perhaps "dated" is partially defined by[I] how [/I] we remember a certain era. ...or a certain part of the soap. "Family at war" seems pretty timeless to me therefore I'm not sure if it really applies to DALLAS. The pilot series was a flawless portmanteau that gave us the basics of the Ewing universe, the first full season fleshed out the characters through various dramas and adventures and the second series was soap heaven with quintessential DALLAS characters like Kristin and Alan Beam - the needy and the hungry - while JR pulled off his first and epic oil scheme. The revelation of Jock's crazy first wife which has more than a touch of gothic, Seth Stone's suicide, Pam "losing" baby John Ross to his biological mother, Miss Ellie allowing herself to be courted as part of her mental healing process - it just keeps giving and giving. Compared to all that it makes Katherine Wentworth's obsession look like run-of-the-mill soap no matter how entertaining she was. Bobby's death is still considered the biggest game changer for a soap series as a whole and yet the tragic death of Ted Dinard in DYNASTY looks much more soapier, more "Peyton Place". Anyway, I think the horror and comedy genre (because they're so very similar) suffer the most from the aging process. Archie Bunker who is anti-this and anti-that looks very tired from a 21st century point of view. And while AYBS? Mr. Humpries [I]is[/I] a very funny character, the double entendre hinting at homosexuality or Mrs. Slocombe's....cat has gone very stale, to say the least. [/QUOTE]
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