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KNOTS LANDING versus DALLAS versus the rest of them week by week
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<blockquote data-quote="Daniel Avery" data-source="post: 177873" data-attributes="member: 27"><p>I kind of liked that 'thought bubble' gimmick, especially how they made it a hallmark of any Anne/Claudia scene. I used to refer to it as "thought wars". I mean, they even had Nick join in (speaking in English, thinking in Italian). It reinforced the idea that both characters were two-faced and never meant what they said out loud, that they always had an 'angle'. Anne was always a character on the outside looking in (by choice--she didn't want to become 'suburban' and pictured herself above all that), and that kind of cynicism was a way of keeping everyone else at arm's length. Having cynical Anne engaging in those "thought wars" scenes with Claudia (who also kept people at arm's length) was a smart move, since they were so alike and yet gave off an air of detesting one another and having some kind of past rivalry the writers had yet to fully reveal. We didn't know enough about Claudia to know what we should believe when she spoke, and she didn't have a 'co-conspirator' (a talk-to character) to explain it all to when she was pulling her stunts (like the fake will she drew up for Greg in this episode and had Anne and Nick agree to 'witness' it). With Nick leaving town (temporarily) in this episode, Anne would no longer have that talk-to/co-conspirator around, either, so hearing their inner monologue was a short-cut they probably felt they had to employ. The "say-one-thing-and-mean-another" staging allowed us to gain some insight into just how far Claudia was willing to go to make sure her<em> precious Katie</em> inherited a healthy chunk of Greg's estate.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Linda really did catch a flaw in the report, but she manipulated Greg, Michael and Alex Georgi into thinking it was more serious than it was. Linda wanted Paige to look bad to both Alex and Greg. She played the two men against one another, and ultimately Linda did get a promotion out of it. Most employees would have downplayed the error or even pointed it out to Paige in order to correct it...but of course Linda was doing her own thing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Daniel Avery, post: 177873, member: 27"] I kind of liked that 'thought bubble' gimmick, especially how they made it a hallmark of any Anne/Claudia scene. I used to refer to it as "thought wars". I mean, they even had Nick join in (speaking in English, thinking in Italian). It reinforced the idea that both characters were two-faced and never meant what they said out loud, that they always had an 'angle'. Anne was always a character on the outside looking in (by choice--she didn't want to become 'suburban' and pictured herself above all that), and that kind of cynicism was a way of keeping everyone else at arm's length. Having cynical Anne engaging in those "thought wars" scenes with Claudia (who also kept people at arm's length) was a smart move, since they were so alike and yet gave off an air of detesting one another and having some kind of past rivalry the writers had yet to fully reveal. We didn't know enough about Claudia to know what we should believe when she spoke, and she didn't have a 'co-conspirator' (a talk-to character) to explain it all to when she was pulling her stunts (like the fake will she drew up for Greg in this episode and had Anne and Nick agree to 'witness' it). With Nick leaving town (temporarily) in this episode, Anne would no longer have that talk-to/co-conspirator around, either, so hearing their inner monologue was a short-cut they probably felt they had to employ. The "say-one-thing-and-mean-another" staging allowed us to gain some insight into just how far Claudia was willing to go to make sure her[I] precious Katie[/I] inherited a healthy chunk of Greg's estate. Linda really did catch a flaw in the report, but she manipulated Greg, Michael and Alex Georgi into thinking it was more serious than it was. Linda wanted Paige to look bad to both Alex and Greg. She played the two men against one another, and ultimately Linda did get a promotion out of it. Most employees would have downplayed the error or even pointed it out to Paige in order to correct it...but of course Linda was doing her own thing. [/QUOTE]
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