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<blockquote data-quote="James from London" data-source="post: 207461" data-attributes="member: 22"><p><u><em>The Best Laid Plans</em> (KNOTS, 15 Nov 90) v <em>The Big Ball</em> (DALLAS, 22 Oct 82)</u></p><p></p><p>To start with, <em>The Best Laid Plans</em> is full of typical KNOTS Season 12 silliness — Val calling off her wedding after Gary sees her in her dress, Anne going to great lengths to pretend she’s being blackmailed — but then out of nowhere comes an absolute gem of a scene in which Mack, when Paige visits his office and admits she’s considering going back to Greg, lets rip with some tough-love advice that pierces her icy exterior. </p><p></p><p>Elsewhere, Julie Williams flashing back to Danny’s last minutes on earth before she listened to him drown is enjoyably gruesome. And there's something that’s never occurred to me before: in the same way that Abby originally got to move onto Seaview Circle because no-one else wanted to live in the same cul-de-sac as a suspected rapist, Claudia now gets to move in Abby's old place because no-one else wants to live in a house where someone just drowned in the backyard. </p><p></p><p><em>The Big Ball</em> is a really unusual episode for this era of DALLAS. Most of the action takes place either in Emporia Kansas, where Ray and Donna encounter Aunt Lil and Mickey for the first time, or at the Southern Cross in San Angelo, where Dusty introduces Sue Ellen to his new wife Linda. JR appears comparatively briefly throughout the ep while Bobby and Pam don’t show up at all until the final act when the family convenes for the show's very first Oil Baron’s Ball which, like most of the Ewing barbecues, takes up surprisingly little screen time — just twelve minutes. </p><p></p><p>I’ve always found Sue Ellen’s response to Dusty’s marriage fascinating. “I’ve always been a romantic dreamer, sure that some man would come around and sweep me off my feet. For a while, that man was Dusty. No more. It’s time I go back to reality,” she tells Clayton. And by reality, she means her fantasy life at Southfork with JR. “Who else is there?” she shrugs. With every other option (i.e., man) now closed to her, she has given up on trying to make it in the real world and has very discreetly flicked the switch on the self-destruct button. It’s only a matter of time before JR betrays her and she gets to drink herself into oblivion — which is all a part of her really wants.</p><p></p><p>And the winner is ... <em>The Big Ball</em>.</p><p></p><p><em>BONUS BEATS:</em></p><p></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]HC2ihsIAAdI[/MEDIA]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="James from London, post: 207461, member: 22"] [U][I]The Best Laid Plans[/I] (KNOTS, 15 Nov 90) v [I]The Big Ball[/I] (DALLAS, 22 Oct 82)[/U] To start with, [I]The Best Laid Plans[/I] is full of typical KNOTS Season 12 silliness — Val calling off her wedding after Gary sees her in her dress, Anne going to great lengths to pretend she’s being blackmailed — but then out of nowhere comes an absolute gem of a scene in which Mack, when Paige visits his office and admits she’s considering going back to Greg, lets rip with some tough-love advice that pierces her icy exterior. Elsewhere, Julie Williams flashing back to Danny’s last minutes on earth before she listened to him drown is enjoyably gruesome. And there's something that’s never occurred to me before: in the same way that Abby originally got to move onto Seaview Circle because no-one else wanted to live in the same cul-de-sac as a suspected rapist, Claudia now gets to move in Abby's old place because no-one else wants to live in a house where someone just drowned in the backyard. [I]The Big Ball[/I] is a really unusual episode for this era of DALLAS. Most of the action takes place either in Emporia Kansas, where Ray and Donna encounter Aunt Lil and Mickey for the first time, or at the Southern Cross in San Angelo, where Dusty introduces Sue Ellen to his new wife Linda. JR appears comparatively briefly throughout the ep while Bobby and Pam don’t show up at all until the final act when the family convenes for the show's very first Oil Baron’s Ball which, like most of the Ewing barbecues, takes up surprisingly little screen time — just twelve minutes. I’ve always found Sue Ellen’s response to Dusty’s marriage fascinating. “I’ve always been a romantic dreamer, sure that some man would come around and sweep me off my feet. For a while, that man was Dusty. No more. It’s time I go back to reality,” she tells Clayton. And by reality, she means her fantasy life at Southfork with JR. “Who else is there?” she shrugs. With every other option (i.e., man) now closed to her, she has given up on trying to make it in the real world and has very discreetly flicked the switch on the self-destruct button. It’s only a matter of time before JR betrays her and she gets to drink herself into oblivion — which is all a part of her really wants. And the winner is ... [I]The Big Ball[/I]. [I]BONUS BEATS:[/I] [MEDIA=youtube]HC2ihsIAAdI[/MEDIA] [/QUOTE]
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