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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Toni" data-source="post: 179975" data-attributes="member: 82">Oh come on. Women like Pam can have male friends...and not necessarily gays, though Mark was well-endowed (mustache-wise) for being a "top" adult movie star... <img src="http://yoursmiles.org/tsmile/censored/t10505.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":ms:" title="Shut    :ms:" data-shortname=":ms:" />As Kenny has noticed already, IMHO in a soap, if a man does something, he is a stalker, but if a woman does the same thing, she´s all flirty and feminine (not thinking about you, April dear...). I still don´t know WHY April liked Bobby so much (I know why I do, of course...). Obviously because of his abs and big hair, and for his bank account. She was lucky that Bobby did NOT turn out to be the real stalker...or an abusing husband like J.R. <img src="http://yoursmiles.org/tsmile/post/t4207.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":NI:" title="Not Interested    :NI:" data-shortname=":NI:" />I watch prime time soaps because I love dreaming (like my former sister Pam) and soap life is more fun and exciting than real life. Rules of real life can´t (and shouldn´t) be applied to the storylines of a drama (and much less from the 80s). If we did so, it would be the most boring of all (won´t name names...) and the main characters would be like us or our families or neighbors. Daytime soaps are closer to that, but also a lot far from reality in a very contradictory way.<img src="http://www.planetsmilies.com/smilies/rolleye/rolleye0010.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":re:" title="RE    :re:" data-shortname=":re:" />One of the things that seem more strange to me is how easily the plots and characters are taken out of context and times. I seem to understand from some posts here: "I hate X because I would hate X in real life if X did that to me." Let me tell you that I never identify myself with any of the "Dallas" characters with the likely exception of early Lucy (believe it or not, I also used to be an eyebrow-raising, (slightly) beeching teenager). <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite10" alt=":oops:" title="Oops!    :oops:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":oops:" />I like to see how they dealt with the ideas and dreams and fears that the show projects: romantic life with Bobby and Pam, abused wife trying to become her own person, Big Mama unsuccessfully fighting to keep the family together, etc. Maybe I´m the weird one, but I don´t want to be Bobby nor Pam nor J.R., not even Lucy...or Pollyanna. I am moi and watching "Dallas" was (and still is) a healthy trip and a funny rollercoaster of emotions. Oh please Soap Gods, don´t let my life be like that!! :fp:</blockquote>

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