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KNOTS LANDING versus DALLAS versus the rest of them week by week
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<blockquote data-quote="James from London" data-source="post: 44555" data-attributes="member: 22"><p>Sorry for not replying before but my laptop's at the menders!</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Well, I <em>thought</em> I didn't like this era of FC much. but so far so good. The shift of dynamic in the Gioberti household -- the change in Chase's personality, Maggie's rape/pregnancy and her growing bond with Richard, Vicky's return -- is fascinating.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>That's funny! For some reason, during the job I've just finished, whenever anybody mentioned their wife, I would automatically shout out Bobby Ewing's line from "Spy in the House": "She's my wife! Isn't anybody gonna defend her?" It caught on and pretty soon everyone was doing it. Also, one of the songs during the pre-show music was People by Barbra Streisand, which prompted me to start quoting Brian Dennehy in "Winds of Vengeance". The first time I heard <em>someone else</em> saying, "Now you start singing, Miss Texas, because I like to be entertained!" was a proud moment indeed.</p><p> </p><p></p><p></p><p>Yes.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Well, in this regard, Knots had the "disadvantage" this season of starting back a week earlier than the other shows with a very strong double bill of episodes. When the other soaps returned, they were equally impactful and so KNOTS kind of got pushed to the bottom -- not because it was bad, but because the competition was unusually strong. That said, although I think Karen's family's reactions to her disappearance are very relatable and well done, and I really like how Phil Harbert is integrated into the rest of the show via the flashbacks to 1967 and his scenes with Greg, the depiction of Karen herself as a kidnap victim is oddly uninvolving. Once she's out of the creepy basement and and into the one-room apartment which feels more like a set from a TV show than an actual room (I'm not sure why), the ominous atmosphere seems to evaporate and all that's left is Michele Lee emoting in a vacuum. As I say, the new synthetized music score doesn't help.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Yeah, once she gets out of the fake house (and it really does feel fake!), her predicament comes alive again.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>There really <em>does</em> seem to be a major shift in the Lorimar soaps at this point. For better or worse (and mostly for better at this point), none of them quite feel like the shows they were even just a few months earlier. And the new Sue Ellen is a major part of that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="James from London, post: 44555, member: 22"] Sorry for not replying before but my laptop's at the menders! Well, I [I]thought[/I] I didn't like this era of FC much. but so far so good. The shift of dynamic in the Gioberti household -- the change in Chase's personality, Maggie's rape/pregnancy and her growing bond with Richard, Vicky's return -- is fascinating. That's funny! For some reason, during the job I've just finished, whenever anybody mentioned their wife, I would automatically shout out Bobby Ewing's line from "Spy in the House": "She's my wife! Isn't anybody gonna defend her?" It caught on and pretty soon everyone was doing it. Also, one of the songs during the pre-show music was People by Barbra Streisand, which prompted me to start quoting Brian Dennehy in "Winds of Vengeance". The first time I heard [I]someone else[/I] saying, "Now you start singing, Miss Texas, because I like to be entertained!" was a proud moment indeed. Yes. Well, in this regard, Knots had the "disadvantage" this season of starting back a week earlier than the other shows with a very strong double bill of episodes. When the other soaps returned, they were equally impactful and so KNOTS kind of got pushed to the bottom -- not because it was bad, but because the competition was unusually strong. That said, although I think Karen's family's reactions to her disappearance are very relatable and well done, and I really like how Phil Harbert is integrated into the rest of the show via the flashbacks to 1967 and his scenes with Greg, the depiction of Karen herself as a kidnap victim is oddly uninvolving. Once she's out of the creepy basement and and into the one-room apartment which feels more like a set from a TV show than an actual room (I'm not sure why), the ominous atmosphere seems to evaporate and all that's left is Michele Lee emoting in a vacuum. As I say, the new synthetized music score doesn't help. Yeah, once she gets out of the fake house (and it really does feel fake!), her predicament comes alive again. There really [I]does[/I] seem to be a major shift in the Lorimar soaps at this point. For better or worse (and mostly for better at this point), none of them quite feel like the shows they were even just a few months earlier. And the new Sue Ellen is a major part of that. [/QUOTE]
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