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Continuing my speed run of Dallas.
I'm in the middle of season 10....I completely slipped the dream season.
I've just about had my fill. The fake Jock storyline is completely dominating the season. Also sick of the Bobby-Pam-Jenna nonsense. This angle should've been wrapped up when Bobby and Pam remarried.
The new characters that have been introduced suck.
They also ruined Pam by season 7...a cold bitch. Making her mega rich through meeting her biological mother was a step too far. Now she's verging on an oil tycoon with Cliff although she doesn't do anything but sit at her desk.
After I finish this season, gonna watch the first two seasons.
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Just finished season 10. This is the brick wall.
They just ruined the show. They've lost Ewing Oil, JR is powerless, Pam in the horrific car wreck due to Principal leaving the show, the new characters....
The show should've ended at season 8.
Gonna start at the beginning tonight and watch up until season 3.
It really was an amazing show for awhile. Must see TV.
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They didn't show Dallas over here until the late 90s. Dynasty was all the rage. I was watching re runs of that when I came home from school as a kid. Soaps are easy to like if you just get into them. Now I'm mostly too old and set in my ways to watch that type of stuff.
Think I can comfortably say I've never watched a Dallas episode. But yet I know somebody shot JR. That's how big the cultural impact was. Huge in the 80s.
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"Who shot JR?' was MASSIVE.
I was in kindergarten and we were speculating about it on the playground. Everyone from great grannies to preschoolers were watching this show.
That level of impact can never happen again. We live in an era of internet, smartphones, a thousand cable channels, and short attention spans.
That many people from all demographics will never watch the same show at the same time again.
I could never get into Dynasty. Maybe I should give it a chance.
I'm on season one....really a 5 episode miniseries. They didn't know yet it was going to become a phenomenon.
It's beautiful....as most 70s film is. I LOVE the original Southfork...I had forgotten how they changed it later on.
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Soaps are easy to like if you just get into them. Now I'm mostly too old and set in my ways to watch that type of stuff. .
I noticed this while watching it. It's a huge investment of time because some storylines are drug out for literally multiple seasons.
Want to find out if Cliff is gonna get revenge on JR for screwing him out of that deal? You've got two seasons to find out.
If I couldn't marathon seasons on Amazon, no way in hell would I ever bother watching it or any of the other shows.
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That level of impact can never happen again. We live in an era of internet, smartphones, a thousand cable channels, and short attention spans
Those days are lost now where a show can cross race, age, socioeconomic status and just kind of be something people can rally around and talk about. Ditto with album releases as events.
I think we should all be happy to have experienced it (face it we are all the same age here) before it got lost and extinct to the ravages of time and progression.
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Been continuing my speed run of Dallas.
I'm on the final season.
The quality nosedived and it's brutal at this point. Too many cast changes, shitty plots, and the vibe is completely different. It's Dallas in name only at this point.
I have to finish it though.
To anyone who wished The Sopranos had continued....
Be glad that it didn't. It would've turned into this.
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The rot was already well advanced by the end of the Sopranos run. For me it jumped the shark exactly in episode 11 of season 5. New writers were brought in that year and you could tell from the very first episode. Still some good shows, but by the end of the season it had reached the point of no return. There is one good storyline in season 6 and that is the outing of Vito. Apart from a few good scenes that last season is like watching paint dry. Not a single, truly good episode and many bad ones. The only redeeming factor is that they still had some real character development and purpose. So there is a substance there, but scattered around. As a vibrant, dynamic and fun show, it was over.
Seinfeld should have continued. Ratings were still going up. They were hitting a new stride after Larry David left the show. It's like the imitation of Larry David is better than Larry David himself. Curb was a good show but it never reached anywhere near Seinfeld level. A tenth season wouldn't have hurt them at all. Probably they could have done more. There are literally endless of storylines you could do with those writers and those characters.
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I disagree. I loved the first three episodes of S6, I thought the Kevin Finnerty saga was brilliant. The psychological aspect was always my favorite part of The Sopranos.
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I agree that the whole subtext was very interesting. My problem is with the execution. There was always fun vibe to the Sopranos. In the earlier seasons when they are exploring, say the psychological development of AJ, you get these little cute moments where he wrecks a car, gets drunk in school etc. While in 6 there is not much fun about anything. He's depressed, he wants to kill himself, he doesn't know what to do with life. Sure, this could be interesting, but is it entertaining?
