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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kenny Coyote" data-source="post: 200188" data-attributes="member: 102">I agree. It's nice to see an interesting discussion take place with thoughtful posts from a variety of people.That change - away from Southfork Ranch and into regular soap opera plots robbed the show of its personality. What a bad decision that was. It looked like they were intentionally getting away from what had made them so successful.That "grit" that the earlier seasons had was gone. It was a rugged quality that made it distinct from the other shows on TV. Jim Davis' portrayal of Jock Ewing was the personification of grit. Some actors have it and some don't. You know it when you see it because it's authentic. It doesn't look like an act, like they're pretending to be that way. When I watch Dallas I don't see Jim Davis trying to be that way - that was just him!  At least that's how it comes across. There's an authenticity to it, a certain way of being that is sorely missing in most new TV shows I've watched, or tried to watch. The men in so many of the new shows act so soft, almost feminine, that it's really off-putting. They don't seem to have a backbone. How can I identify with a guy who acts that way? I have got to be able to relate to at least some of the characters in a show at least a little bit! I guess it's part of the reason I don't watch a lot of TV.I don't want to get too off-topic here, but you had a thread about how modern technology like the internet and cell phones is changing the types of storylines they can have in a TV show. Maybe it's all the high-tech gadgets that are so prevalent today that is creating a different sort of people from the ones in my generation (generation X) and all the generations before mine as well. When we were growing up we played outdoors, we played sports, we did things that were physically demanding in some way, for a lot of the day. That doesn't happen much anymore because most are so into their video games and playing with their smartphones that they're almost entirely sedentary! That's not natural. It's not healthy. It's not too hard to realize that kids who are growing up these days in that highly unnatural, physically inactive way are going to have consequences on down the line.</blockquote>

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