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<blockquote data-quote="James from London" data-source="post: 246571" data-attributes="member: 22">I think the difference is that on EMPIRE, for the most part,&nbsp; you believe that that&#039;s how these people talk. Cookie is the most outspoken character yet is always totally believable. On DYNASTY, nearly everyone talks in the same arch bitchy way, like they&#039;re performing all the time, and after a while, it all blurs together.Yes, no-one else on DALLAS talks like Judith so it still feels fresh and different. And there&#039;s an ongoing tension between the old-fashioned polite &quot;Southern gentleman&quot; way of talking and behaving on DALLAS, and the C21st freedom to say anything you want, so when someone does swear on the show, it still packs a punch.Yeah, a lot of the time it feels like the contrivances are there to pad out an episode rather than further an ongoing story. So it becomes more about being tricksy for the sake of it than it does about the characters.Yes! (Although give one to Anne Matheson in Season 12, and it&#039;s two episodes tops.)HA!Totally. There were surprisingly few of them in the &#039;80s.Yes, the Tupac/Biggie feud was epic, but within the relatively small world of hip-hop. Even the Ewings were only big in Texas. When EMPIRE begins, it&#039;s already so colossally successful, it does sometimes feel like there&#039;s nowhere for it to go.You could argue that by then Krystle had earned the right to wander around stating the obvious, just like Miss Ellie had. With New New Cristal, we&#039;re still at the &quot;Sorry - who are you again?&quot; stage.Also, &#039;80s Fallon picked on bigger targets -- politics, business, the whole Carrington way of life. Making fun of a psychic -- anyone can do that.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="James from London, post: 246571, member: 22"] I think the difference is that on EMPIRE, for the most part, you believe that that's how these people talk. Cookie is the most outspoken character yet is always totally believable. On DYNASTY, nearly everyone talks in the same arch bitchy way, like they're performing all the time, and after a while, it all blurs together. Yes, no-one else on DALLAS talks like Judith so it still feels fresh and different. And there's an ongoing tension between the old-fashioned polite "Southern gentleman" way of talking and behaving on DALLAS, and the C21st freedom to say anything you want, so when someone does swear on the show, it still packs a punch. Yeah, a lot of the time it feels like the contrivances are there to pad out an episode rather than further an ongoing story. So it becomes more about being tricksy for the sake of it than it does about the characters. Yes! (Although give one to Anne Matheson in Season 12, and it's two episodes tops.) HA! Totally. There were surprisingly few of them in the '80s. Yes, the Tupac/Biggie feud was epic, but within the relatively small world of hip-hop. Even the Ewings were only big in Texas. When EMPIRE begins, it's already so colossally successful, it does sometimes feel like there's nowhere for it to go. You could argue that by then Krystle had earned the right to wander around stating the obvious, just like Miss Ellie had. With New New Cristal, we're still at the "Sorry - who are you again?" stage. Also, '80s Fallon picked on bigger targets -- politics, business, the whole Carrington way of life. Making fun of a psychic -- anyone can do that. [/QUOTE]

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