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Posted by aretee (Member # 1743) on :

So, I was watching Dallas yesterday during my conference period and JR was arrested for raping a girl in a small Texas town. Now, he didn't do it, he just lied to her to suduce her, but that's not the miscarriage of Justice.

Now I hate JR just as much as anyone else, but he was denied an attorney and a trial by jury. Now he's sentenced to 10 years of hard labor and he wasn't even allowed to call his family.

How wrong is that. Dallas just fell down the credible soap opera ladder. I'm telling you...

Posted by Katarain (Member # 6659) on :

What is this? A blast from the past? Were you watching reruns? Did they bring back Dallas?

And since when are soap operas expected to be credible??

Posted by aretee (Member # 1743) on :

The only reason that we don't have cable or sattelite at our house is that I would be a TV-aholic. At school we get SOAP Net (go figure). I'm addicted. Last year it was Knots Landing and 90210.

Credible? Are you kidding me? This is an aboslutely valid display of normal, everyday life! Dallas shows Texas lifestyles to the Tee. I live down here and I know. Of course I'm not rich, and I don't live in Dallas...but I can imagine.

Posted by esl (Member # 3143) on :

Hi, aretee! long time no see [Big Grin]

Is 90210 considered a soap? I'm not sure where the line between soap and drama is. And I get the feeling a soap is a drama, or maybe there's just a lot of drama in soaps.

Posted by Katarain (Member # 6659) on :

quote:
Credible? Are you kidding me? This is an aboslutely valid display of normal, everyday life! Dallas shows Texas lifestyles to the Tee. I live down here and I know. Of course I'm not rich, and I don't live in Dallas...but I can imagine.

Posted by starLisa (Member # 8384) on :

Do they run reruns of Soap on the Soap Channel?

Posted by aretee (Member # 1743) on :

Oh yes. Dynasty is on right before Dallas, but my conference period begins only 5 minutes before it's over. [Frown]

Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

quote:
Originally posted by esl:
Is 90210 considered a soap?

SO yes! Has all the key elements: excess angst; bizarre and cycling romantic entanglements; overly dramatic responses by characters to everyday events . . .

Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :

How about Star Trek: Deep Space 9?

Posted by Shan (Member # 4550) on :

*gasp*

Tante! How naughty of you!

*grin*

Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

For DS9 to be a soap, Quark and Odo would have had to become a couple.

Posted by aretee (Member # 1743) on :

ewwww..

Posted by Papa Moose (Member # 1992) on :

Which Rule of Acquisition would that involve, I wonder?

Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

*resists*

*resists*

*resists*

Posted by Stone_Wolf_ (Member # 8299) on :

[ROFL]

Good one Papa Moose!

Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :

[Laugh]

Papa Moose

Brilliant! Take a bow!

Posted by CoriSCapnSkip (Member # 9153) on :

Ummm...possible spoiler here, but...I watched "Dallas" the first time around and, have you got to the part where one whole season was a dream? David Letterman said there ought to be a point when a line is crossed and people are told, "Okay, you're off television."

Posted by Ryuko (Member # 5125) on :

The same thing happened in Roseanne, but by that time no one was watching anymore.

Posted by Dan_raven (Member # 3383) on :

There is such a point. Its called "Jumping the Shark" from the Happy Days Episode where the show had run out of ideas and was left with Fonzie on Water Ski's jumping over a shark--yeah, something a guy from oceanless Minneapolis would be able to do.

Posted by zgator (Member # 3833) on :

quote:
*resists*

*resists*

*resists*

You know what the Borg say about that.

Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Dan_raven:
Fonzie on Water Ski's jumping over a shark--yeah, something a guy from oceanless Minneapolis would be able to do.

Well, he WAS The Fonz.

Ayyyy!

Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

quote:
Originally posted by zgator:

quote:
*resists*

*resists*

*resists*
You know what the Borg say about that.

No, what?

Hmm. Does it mean anything that my toenails are steel-colored?

Posted by blacwolve (Member # 2972) on :

Quark and Principal Synder from Buffy are played by the same guy.

/complete irrelevance

Posted by The Pixiest (Member # 1863) on :

He was HILARIOUS as Synder. Especially in "Band Candy"