The New Dallas!!!! And a lesson on backstory :)

Oh yeah...I watched the new Dallas. I never watched the original. My parents were huge fans, but us kids had to be in bed before Dallas came on. But I do remember that opening song...and boy did it send chills up and down my spine when I watched the new Dallas the other night!!

With some of my favorite shows ending and being canceled lately, and the lack of decent TV (meaning, good fictional shows with talented writers...not reality crap), I've really been craving good shows. I love a great soap opera....I want sex, drama, a few laughs. I wanna be sucked in and emerged in a fabulous fictional world. And Dallas is exactly that. Plus some really hot guys!! I've been a Jesse Metcalfe fan since his first appearance on Desperate Housewives. And though I thought Josh Henderson was cute when he was on DH too....he is so super sexy now. I've never been into bad boys, but Oh My! I am loving me some John Ross Ewing!! I think he's my favorite so far!!

Anyway, the second point of this post (after all my gushing over the story and hot guys) is the backstory. Now, like me, there have to be thousands of viewers who did not watch the original series. I don't know every character's story. I only know tiny bits and pieces. I mean, really, who DIDN'T know JR was shot in the 80's?? So the writers have a huge challenge in front of them. They need to bring new viewers up to speed, and also remind old viewers what happened 20 years ago. But the story needs to start in the here and now and draw people in to what's happening now...no time for too much filling in.

And so far, I think the writers have done a great job. I know enough of what happened years ago to not be completely lost. I still have a couple questions that I hope will be answered soon, but the show has already pulled me in enough that I am intrigued with the present and not so much the past.

So, anyone become a new fan of Dallas like me?? Any old fans watching the new show? What are your thoughts??

I tried to get the Dallas DVDs but my library did not have them :(

The end of an era :(

A few weeks back it was announced that my favorite soap, the long-running All My Children, has been canceled. This is the only soap I've ever watched and it's been a part of my day since I was 15 (almost 20 years). So I've been watching it for more of my life than I've not. Wow.

There had been rumors for a while, but the day they actually made the announcement...I was far more upset that I thought I'd be. Those characters were such a part of my life. I remember when I first started watching. My Grandma had fallen down some stairs in her apartment and needed to stay with us that summer. She just HAD to watch her story every day. And one day, in passing, I saw some teens on the show. I wanted to know what was going on. For you veteran AMC fans, it was Haley and Brian's love story way back in the early 90's. It sucked me right in and soon I needed to know what was happening in every other story line.

Many people may call soap operas silly and a waste of time. But these are stories of romance, drama, comedy, sometimes even suspense and intrigue. There was a little bit of everything. Yes, sometimes the storylines were corny and far-fetched, but after over the course of 40+ years, the writers had to get creative now and again. But it was always the romances the sucked me in.