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<blockquote data-quote="Snarky Oracle!" data-source="post: 339717" data-attributes="member: 57984">These shows -- especially the wealth-based, family-centered nighttime soaps from the &#039;80s -- seem to work best when the writers derive contemporary scandal from past scandal.It&#039;s an art. Paulsen could do it. Bob McCullough on FALCON CREST could do it. But not everybody can.As DALLAS aged (and Paulsen was gone) the show no longer really did that. Oh, sure, Vanessa and LeeAnn dela Vega were supposed to have emerged from JR&#039;s checkered past, but they felt forced and were just silly in their execution and never carried much weight.And it can&#039;t just be old romances that are rolled forward to upset the modern apple cart. Ther has to be some business/political/familial aspect to it, building on layers as the years wear on.People love that crap -- if you do it well.[ATTACH=full]40745[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Snarky Oracle!, post: 339717, member: 57984"] These shows -- especially the wealth-based, family-centered nighttime soaps from the '80s -- seem to work best when the writers derive contemporary scandal from past scandal. It's an art. Paulsen could do it. Bob McCullough on FALCON CREST could do it. But not everybody can. As DALLAS aged (and Paulsen was gone) the show no longer really did that. Oh, sure, Vanessa and LeeAnn dela Vega were supposed to have emerged from JR's checkered past, but they felt forced and were just silly in their execution and never carried much weight. And it can't just be old romances that are rolled forward to upset the modern apple cart. Ther has to be some business/political/familial aspect to it, building on layers as the years wear on. People love that crap -- if you do it well. [ATTACH type="full" alt="SFfiloli.jpg"]40745[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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