Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="Kenny Coyote" data-source="post: 197237" data-attributes="member: 102">Nice post [USER=82]@Piggy It&#039;s Kermit Outside[/USER]!&nbsp; I&#039;m glad you&#039;ve been enjoying the discussion. I think you&#039;re more articulate in English than you think. Your writing looks good to me!I had never seen any type of soap either. I had seen just bits and pieces of daytime soaps while turning the dial on the TV set. Remember when there were no remote controls and TVs actually had a dial? The daytime soaps didn&#039;t look anything like Dallas, from what little I remember. They all looked like they were filmed indoors, for one thing. So when I first saw Dallas, I didn&#039;t know it was considered a soap opera. To me, it looked like a drama with some elements of westerns. I still consider early Dallas a modern day western saga.Then I noticed there were ads on TV for other shows that all looked at least a little like Dallas. Some were probably more similar to Dallas than others. The one thing they all had in common was they were shows with stories that continued from week to week. I think that&#039;s why the media started calling them &quot;primetime soaps.&quot; They all were told in a serial format, which was unique at the time.Dallas had both a lot of originality and a lot of vision in its early days. The originality was what I remember the most vividly - I had never seen a TV show even a little bit like this show! It was captivating. I couldn&#039;t wait for the next Friday night to see what would happen next.Another thing I remember is at some point, the network started airing Falcon Crest immediately after Dallas. I thought it looked kind of interesting, but if I started watching it, I&#039;d feel obligated to watch it every week. I had a lot of other things going on at the time and I couldn&#039;t justify starting something else where I&#039;d have to watch every week to follow the story. Remember, back then other TV shows were all episodic, so you could watch one episode, see a full story told, then not watch it again for several weeks or months and it didn&#039;t matter.Excellent point! When you&#039;re the innovator, and Dallas was the innovator of the 80s primetime soap, and you&#039;re having the tremendous success Dallas was having, then stay the innovator! Why would you want to copy someone who is copying you?That&#039;s another excellent point and very appropriate to the topic. When the vision is lost, it&#039;s over, unless you can regain that vision. Sadly, Dallas never regained their vision for what they wanted to accomplish with their characters and storylines.If you at least have a definite, clear vision for your show, then even if that vision isn&#039;t ideal and you get some dull plots or characters once in a while, at least you know where you&#039;re going with your show and&nbsp; you don&#039;t get lost. Having vision allows you to move forward in a logical way with a purpose.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kenny Coyote, post: 197237, member: 102"] Nice post [USER=82]@Piggy It's Kermit Outside[/USER]! I'm glad you've been enjoying the discussion. I think you're more articulate in English than you think. Your writing looks good to me! I had never seen any type of soap either. I had seen just bits and pieces of daytime soaps while turning the dial on the TV set. Remember when there were no remote controls and TVs actually had a dial? The daytime soaps didn't look anything like Dallas, from what little I remember. They all looked like they were filmed indoors, for one thing. So when I first saw Dallas, I didn't know it was considered a soap opera. To me, it looked like a drama with some elements of westerns. I still consider early Dallas a modern day western saga. Then I noticed there were ads on TV for other shows that all looked at least a little like Dallas. Some were probably more similar to Dallas than others. The one thing they all had in common was they were shows with stories that continued from week to week. I think that's why the media started calling them "primetime soaps." They all were told in a serial format, which was unique at the time. Dallas had both a lot of originality and a lot of vision in its early days. The originality was what I remember the most vividly - I had never seen a TV show even a little bit like this show! It was captivating. I couldn't wait for the next Friday night to see what would happen next. Another thing I remember is at some point, the network started airing Falcon Crest immediately after Dallas. I thought it looked kind of interesting, but if I started watching it, I'd feel obligated to watch it every week. I had a lot of other things going on at the time and I couldn't justify starting something else where I'd have to watch every week to follow the story. Remember, back then other TV shows were all episodic, so you could watch one episode, see a full story told, then not watch it again for several weeks or months and it didn't matter. Excellent point! When you're the innovator, and Dallas was the innovator of the 80s primetime soap, and you're having the tremendous success Dallas was having, then stay the innovator! Why would you want to copy someone who is copying you? That's another excellent point and very appropriate to the topic. When the vision is lost, it's over, unless you can regain that vision. Sadly, Dallas never regained their vision for what they wanted to accomplish with their characters and storylines. If you at least have a definite, clear vision for your show, then even if that vision isn't ideal and you get some dull plots or characters once in a while, at least you know where you're going with your show and you don't get lost. Having vision allows you to move forward in a logical way with a purpose. [/QUOTE]

Verification

6 + 4 =