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What small scene do you remember vividly from Dallas?
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<blockquote data-quote="Kenny Coyote" data-source="post: 216525" data-attributes="member: 102"><p>Don't you think Pam was a good woman in the first 2 seasons? We've talked many times about how Dallas is an ensemble of characters who are all somewhere in between being all good and all bad - they've varying shades of gray, with some being closer to the bad end of the spectrum and some being closer to the good end of the spectrum. I think Pam was, at least until she abandoned Bobby, the character closest to being purely good (which I'm guessing you mean by "goody goody"). <strong>Even Pam's vice - being so trusting of that tapeworm of a brother she has - comes from being good.</strong> Pam is so good that possibly her only vice is wanting to believe that the people she loves also have all those same virtuous qualities she has, even though she's clearly seen evidence to the contrary. Cliff repeatedly screws Pam over and she keeps trusting him anyway, desperately hoping that those virtues she imagines him to possess will one day somehow magically appear.</p><p></p><p>Look at how good she is in this scene from Barbecue especially the part starting at 3:08 onwards. At that point in the scene we see Pam is a better, gutsier person than Bobby, who wants to pull a Gary and just run. Pam is so good here. She doesn't want to break up the family. She wants to do the righteous thing and stay.</p><p></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]jyz9mqgkvbo[/MEDIA]</p><p></p><p>Did you notice how different Dallas looks in that episode compared to what it later became? This is in keeping with what [USER=237]@Lastkidpicked[/USER] asks in the title of the thread - What small scene do you remember vividly from Dallas? - It's not that the scene is small because it's a major scene but there's a detail about it that I don't know has been discussed here before. If it was, I don't remember it. <strong>Here's the something small that I remember vividly </strong>- how different Dallas looked at this time, but especially in "Barbecue." These 4 four minutes of "Barbecue" are enough to show that the Dallas we're watching here looks almost more like a play than a TV show!</p><p></p><p>Somehow Dallas seems deeper here than it would for most of its 357 episode run.</p><p></p><p>This was before Dallas got that more flashy, typical Hollywood style and started looking more glam. This just looks so <strong>real.</strong> It's stripped down to the core of what Dallas is about without anything flashy distracting from exactly what matters here. What a performance from Victoria Principal! She doesn't even have to say much - her face shows everything. I also like the tenderness that Jock shows Pam, and how he comes to the realization that "we've had things our way for so long that maybe, maybe it got in the way of our being just people."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kenny Coyote, post: 216525, member: 102"] Don't you think Pam was a good woman in the first 2 seasons? We've talked many times about how Dallas is an ensemble of characters who are all somewhere in between being all good and all bad - they've varying shades of gray, with some being closer to the bad end of the spectrum and some being closer to the good end of the spectrum. I think Pam was, at least until she abandoned Bobby, the character closest to being purely good (which I'm guessing you mean by "goody goody"). [B]Even Pam's vice - being so trusting of that tapeworm of a brother she has - comes from being good.[/B] Pam is so good that possibly her only vice is wanting to believe that the people she loves also have all those same virtuous qualities she has, even though she's clearly seen evidence to the contrary. Cliff repeatedly screws Pam over and she keeps trusting him anyway, desperately hoping that those virtues she imagines him to possess will one day somehow magically appear. Look at how good she is in this scene from Barbecue especially the part starting at 3:08 onwards. At that point in the scene we see Pam is a better, gutsier person than Bobby, who wants to pull a Gary and just run. Pam is so good here. She doesn't want to break up the family. She wants to do the righteous thing and stay. [MEDIA=youtube]jyz9mqgkvbo[/MEDIA] Did you notice how different Dallas looks in that episode compared to what it later became? This is in keeping with what [USER=237]@Lastkidpicked[/USER] asks in the title of the thread - What small scene do you remember vividly from Dallas? - It's not that the scene is small because it's a major scene but there's a detail about it that I don't know has been discussed here before. If it was, I don't remember it. [B]Here's the something small that I remember vividly [/B]- how different Dallas looked at this time, but especially in "Barbecue." These 4 four minutes of "Barbecue" are enough to show that the Dallas we're watching here looks almost more like a play than a TV show! Somehow Dallas seems deeper here than it would for most of its 357 episode run. This was before Dallas got that more flashy, typical Hollywood style and started looking more glam. This just looks so [B]real.[/B] It's stripped down to the core of what Dallas is about without anything flashy distracting from exactly what matters here. What a performance from Victoria Principal! She doesn't even have to say much - her face shows everything. I also like the tenderness that Jock shows Pam, and how he comes to the realization that "we've had things our way for so long that maybe, maybe it got in the way of our being just people." [/QUOTE]
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