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<blockquote data-quote="Toni" data-source="post: 197189" data-attributes="member: 82">Congratulations for all your opinions! I wish I were so articulate in English as you all are. I myself always loved the show because it was kind of &quot;Tales of the Unexpected&quot; for a saga. In the golden years, anything could happen at the end of the episode, and anyone (even Lucy!) could get the freeze-frame. Besides, we all were virgins re primetime soaps (I didn´t even know daytime soaps!) and everything was brand new. But as with the formulas for some products, they put in some ingredients not for improving it but for making it more like &quot;that other one who was selling more&quot; (here obviously meaning all the other supersoaps). And of course, it was vision that was lost. No vision, no perspective, no originality, and eventually, a saturation of the genre that was the beginning of the end. Sometimes I think that even without Miss Ellie´s recasting, the dream resolution or VP leaving, the show would have faced big problems sooner or later. It was a matter of time, but keeping a better vision (as in most &quot;Knots Landing&quot;), the essence is not lost. You can get some dull plots or characters but the overall vision is safe.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Toni, post: 197189, member: 82"] Congratulations for all your opinions! I wish I were so articulate in English as you all are. I myself always loved the show because it was kind of "Tales of the Unexpected" for a saga. In the golden years, anything could happen at the end of the episode, and anyone (even Lucy!) could get the freeze-frame. Besides, we all were virgins re primetime soaps (I didn´t even know daytime soaps!) and everything was brand new. But as with the formulas for some products, they put in some ingredients not for improving it but for making it more like "that other one who was selling more" (here obviously meaning all the other supersoaps). And of course, it was vision that was lost. No vision, no perspective, no originality, and eventually, a saturation of the genre that was the beginning of the end. Sometimes I think that even without Miss Ellie´s recasting, the dream resolution or VP leaving, the show would have faced big problems sooner or later. It was a matter of time, but keeping a better vision (as in most "Knots Landing"), the essence is not lost. You can get some dull plots or characters but the overall vision is safe. [/QUOTE]

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