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<blockquote data-quote="Grant Jennings" data-source="post: 161078" data-attributes="member: 746">Every Friday night my Mom, Dad and I would gather in front of the TV and watch &quot;Dallas&quot;. Then Bobby stepped out of the shower and told Pam &quot;none of that happened&quot; and all three of us groaned. We watched the rest of that episode but we didn&#039;t watch another episode after that. We felt like this was a slap in the face to viewers. Among my objections:1) 31 hour long episodes were Pam&#039;s dream. Ridiculous. I will accept plot twists that strain credulity (especially if they are on a show that is already over the top) but telling me I wasted 31 hours of my life is an insult. It&#039;s also lazy storytelling. I would have accepted almost any other resolution than this.2) One of the things about soaps that appeals to me is the fact that more can happen than on a regular series. On a typical drama you can count on the same characters having the same relationships and being in similar predicaments week after week after week. It eventually hit me that the &quot;Dallas&quot; writers had no desire to shake things up - the more things changed, the more they stayed the same. J.R. would forever battle Bobby. Sue Ellen would always return to J.R. J.R. would never pay the price for his dirty dealings. The Ewings would always live together under one (much too small) roof. Pam repeatedly made empty threats to go after J.R. with both barrels - but she never did. The writers should have pursued this after Bobby died, it was a natural progression for both characters. Instead we got Angelica Nero.3) The episode that ended with Bobby&#039;s death was brilliant. It was an epic tragedy. It felt like a logical outcome for the characters of Bobby and Pam. I cried my eyes out during this episode. Yet, the producers thought nothing of completely disregarding this and going back to the status quo. I later learned that Bobby and Pam remarried and Pam gave up her mansion to move back to Southfork. J.R. continued to treat Sue Ellen like dirt and cheat at business. Was &quot;Dallas&quot; really a soap opera or was it a standard drama masquerading as a soap?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Grant Jennings, post: 161078, member: 746"] Every Friday night my Mom, Dad and I would gather in front of the TV and watch "Dallas". Then Bobby stepped out of the shower and told Pam "none of that happened" and all three of us groaned. We watched the rest of that episode but we didn't watch another episode after that. We felt like this was a slap in the face to viewers. Among my objections: 1) 31 hour long episodes were Pam's dream. Ridiculous. I will accept plot twists that strain credulity (especially if they are on a show that is already over the top) but telling me I wasted 31 hours of my life is an insult. It's also lazy storytelling. I would have accepted almost any other resolution than this. 2) One of the things about soaps that appeals to me is the fact that more can happen than on a regular series. On a typical drama you can count on the same characters having the same relationships and being in similar predicaments week after week after week. It eventually hit me that the "Dallas" writers had no desire to shake things up - the more things changed, the more they stayed the same. J.R. would forever battle Bobby. Sue Ellen would always return to J.R. J.R. would never pay the price for his dirty dealings. The Ewings would always live together under one (much too small) roof. Pam repeatedly made empty threats to go after J.R. with both barrels - but she never did. The writers should have pursued this after Bobby died, it was a natural progression for both characters. Instead we got Angelica Nero. 3) The episode that ended with Bobby's death was brilliant. It was an epic tragedy. It felt like a logical outcome for the characters of Bobby and Pam. I cried my eyes out during this episode. Yet, the producers thought nothing of completely disregarding this and going back to the status quo. I later learned that Bobby and Pam remarried and Pam gave up her mansion to move back to Southfork. J.R. continued to treat Sue Ellen like dirt and cheat at business. Was "Dallas" really a soap opera or was it a standard drama masquerading as a soap? [/QUOTE]

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