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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Willie Oleson" data-source="post: 398860" data-attributes="member: 8">That's why I love soap opera.Exactly. It was a reaction to a situation that was already pretty absurd to begin with.Lots of the emotional soap dramas is about exaggerated situations, just look how they value the family name Ewing. It's not just about being grateful to belong to a certain family, it's everything - and it also means everything to any Dallas character who isn't a Ewing.Pam couldn't go to Paris because heaven forbid she wasn't available when the precious family needed her, even though some of them couldn't wait to see the back of her.The viewer needs to believe how important the family home is and why mortgaging Southfork was such a disaster scenario.These people literally cannot live somewhere else, it's the heart of SoapLand, it's living there or die.And that's why Miss Ellie's plan to give it to Garrison should worry the viewer, not because the Ewings couldn't afford it but because she was about to give away the familiar setting that the viewers had been visiting week after week.It would be like Batman selling the Batcave.</blockquote>