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<blockquote data-quote="tommie" data-source="post: 195820" data-attributes="member: 370">In all honesty, it&#039;s all down hill from here. There&#039;s a reason why I tend to call &quot;The Gang&quot; a cult - just count the people who seemingly befriend them and never turn up again. Where did they go? Into Cindy&#039;s famous meatloaf?There are hilarious and embarrassing attempts to make Donna somewhat relevant later on - such as her saving the world from racism via funky dancing. Or that awful later seasons episode where St Donna of Da Hood tries to educate a poor working class (black) mom about having latch-key kids (it&#039;s wrong!). Or whenever the writers ran out of story ideas they would burden people with an &quot;addiction&quot; plot that would appear and disappear as quickly as they came, because, you know, people who have issues with addiction just get over it by the time the sweeps ratings period is over.They were never really consistent with the money these people supposedly had either - sometimes they&#039;d be filthy rich and seemingly not worry about money, then when the plot called for it they&#039;d be desperate for cash.While Jim had major double standards when it came to Brandon and Brenda regarding them having sex, I&#039;m also amused how we are supposed to not get at all why he wouldn&#039;t want Brenda dating Dylan. Yes, why would someone oppose their teenage daughter to date a 16 year old addict who lives at a hotel with no parental supervision and have enough cash to never work a day in his life? I can&#039;t see any scenarios where that might go wrong.And speaking of virginity - there&#039;s of course Donna&#039;s retconned virginity, supposedly ordered by the man (Aaron) himself. We&#039;re never really given a reason why Donna has chosen to remain a virgin except for... reasons. She&#039;s not portrayed as particularly religious and yet guys never really question exactly why she&#039;s so hung up on her virginity. Guys at the absolute sexual peak of their lives are ok that their girlfriend doesn&#039;t want to have sex. Instead they have to go and do it with the town tramp Valerie in the later seasons.Considering Dynasty was so heavily influenced by the Reagan politics then it makes sense that Beverly Hills 90210 and early Melrose Place were influenced by the Clinton administration.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="tommie, post: 195820, member: 370"] In all honesty, it's all down hill from here. There's a reason why I tend to call "The Gang" a cult - just count the people who seemingly befriend them and never turn up again. Where did they go? Into Cindy's famous meatloaf? There are hilarious and embarrassing attempts to make Donna somewhat relevant later on - such as her saving the world from racism via funky dancing. Or that awful later seasons episode where St Donna of Da Hood tries to educate a poor working class (black) mom about having latch-key kids (it's wrong!). Or whenever the writers ran out of story ideas they would burden people with an "addiction" plot that would appear and disappear as quickly as they came, because, you know, people who have issues with addiction just get over it by the time the sweeps ratings period is over. They were never really consistent with the money these people supposedly had either - sometimes they'd be filthy rich and seemingly not worry about money, then when the plot called for it they'd be desperate for cash. While Jim had major double standards when it came to Brandon and Brenda regarding them having sex, I'm also amused how we are supposed to not get at all why he wouldn't want Brenda dating Dylan. Yes, why would someone oppose their teenage daughter to date a 16 year old addict who lives at a hotel with no parental supervision and have enough cash to never work a day in his life? I can't see any scenarios where that might go wrong. And speaking of virginity - there's of course Donna's retconned virginity, supposedly ordered by the man (Aaron) himself. We're never [I]really [/I]given a reason why Donna has chosen to remain a virgin except for... [I]reasons[/I]. She's not portrayed as particularly religious and yet guys never [I]really [/I]question exactly why she's so hung up on her virginity. Guys at the absolute sexual peak of their lives are ok that their girlfriend doesn't want to have sex. Instead they have to go and do it with the town tramp Valerie in the later seasons. Considering [I]Dynasty [/I]was so heavily influenced by the Reagan politics then it makes sense that [I]Beverly Hills 90210 [/I]and early [I]Melrose Place [/I]were influenced by the Clinton administration. [/QUOTE]

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