Well I just completed viewing the first two seasons of the original run of the show "Dallas." I really enjoyed watching these episodes again although I can't really claimed I've seen all of them before. When my family started watching Dallas I was real young and I don't believe it started with the first two seasons. I don't believe my parents started watching the show until many years later (around seasons 8 or 9 I think). Whenever Dallas would return for a syndicated run on cable I would try to watch it but to have to try to view it everyday or record it when I had other interests at the time, I couldn't because all I had to record with was a VCR and there is only so much you can put on one video tape.
Well last year Dallas returned but not for reruns. This time it was for new episodes and I started watching these new episodes on TNT from the beginning and I am enjoying this new series. And it is because of this that I started to want to see the older episodes so I began purchasing them. I first bought the first two seasons and the movies (There were two follow-up movies that aired when the show ended plus one that ran early that gave the history to the Ewing-Barnes feud that aired once on CMT that I didn't know a thing about). And I began watching them. Today I just completed watching the last episode of Season Two (really season 1 because the first season is really a five-episode mini-series that ran in the spring one year then Season 2 was the first full season). Nevertheless I watched it and I enjoyed it.
Like I said in my review of Man of Steel, I am new to writing reviews and don't really know how to express my thoughts. I wasn't really watching it to critique it but since I decided to start doing reviews for my blog I thought it would be a good idea to include Dallas with this. All of my Dallas season reviews will be under the label Dallas Reviews.
But as for the season, the only problem I had was the pacing. The episodes I remember watching as a child was long after they started ending each episode with a cliffhanger. These episodes seem to be more self-contained than in later seasons. There were continuing story lines but I guess I really loved it because it was very Soap Opera like. And for a long time I loved soap operas (at least the ones on CBS). Now I don't watch soaps at all. But this season was to me more of a family drama than a soap opera. But I have seen some of these episodes but at the time I had no idea the show started out as a mini-series. I figured that part out myself when I was reading titles and air dates and there was such a gap between episodes 5 and 6. I deduced that must be why the first two seasons were put together because the first season was so short.
Well now I have finished and I like every bit of it. I will soon be viewing seasons 3-5 which I bought all at once and each season will have its own separate review. And season 3 will be the one that ends with the most shocking cliffhanger of all- Who Shot J.R.? I hope what leads to that shocking finale is as good as the finale itself.
Well that is all I have to say about this season. I'll be back soon with another blog entry and Chapter 2 of my series Bite Me v.7 will start going up on my blog tomorrow morning and a part will be up every morning this week.
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