Comments on: "Beverly Hills, 90210" Flashback: Introducing Dylan McKay http://www.ohiomm.com/blogs/heldenfiles/2008/08/beverly-hills-90210-flashback-introducing-dylan-mckay/ Movies, TV and Popular Culture with Rich Heldenfels Fri, 19 Mar 2010 02:59:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: brenda Mckay http://www.ohiomm.com/blogs/heldenfiles/2008/08/beverly-hills-90210-flashback-introducing-dylan-mckay/comment-page-1/#comment-80101 brenda Mckay Thu, 03 Sep 2009 08:45:07 +0000 http://www.ohiomm.com/blogs/heldenfiles/?p=2229#comment-80101 I think we all just want to see Dylan reunite with BRENDA.. NOT Kelly. Kelly & Dylan had no real chem. FAKE FAKE I think we all just want to see Dylan reunite with BRENDA.. NOT Kelly. Kelly & Dylan had no real chem. FAKE FAKE

]]> By: rheldenfels http://www.ohiomm.com/blogs/heldenfiles/2008/08/beverly-hills-90210-flashback-introducing-dylan-mckay/comment-page-1/#comment-61536 rheldenfels Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:10:53 +0000 http://www.ohiomm.com/blogs/heldenfiles/?p=2229#comment-61536 Hmm, I would actually watch Brandon Walsh on "Gossip Girl." And the issue-of-the-week thing is wearing me down after three episodes (will be posting about the third one a little later). Hmm, I would actually watch Brandon Walsh on "Gossip Girl." And the issue-of-the-week thing is wearing me down after three episodes (will be posting about the third one a little later).

]]> By: Annie http://www.ohiomm.com/blogs/heldenfiles/2008/08/beverly-hills-90210-flashback-introducing-dylan-mckay/comment-page-1/#comment-61530 Annie Wed, 13 Aug 2008 18:07:12 +0000 http://www.ohiomm.com/blogs/heldenfiles/?p=2229#comment-61530 I'm glad you're doing this retrospective. 90210 premiered when I was a freshman in high school, so it's like a garishly dressed time capsule. I like to play a little game with myself to see how long it takes for me to realize how bad/weird an outfit or hairstyle is, since some of them were so popular in my formative years that I just accept them on first glance. One of the most interesting aspects of the earliest seasons was that the original concept was to produce a weekly primetime afterschool special. In fact, 90210 killed the afterschool special for good. In the beginning, almost every episode was about some Hot Teen Topic -- underage drinking, drunk driving, absentee parents, parents on drugs, date rape, guns, etc. Brandon and Brenda were supposed to be all-American kids with strong midwestern values coping with being thrown into this den of money and vice, but pretty soon it got really soapy. Viewers cared way more about Brenda and Dylan's relationship (and the Kelly-Dylan-Brenda endless love triangle of doom) than about learning Important Lessons. The show still paid lip service to the afterschool special aspects, usually by having Brandon be appalled and disappointed by somebody failing to meet his moral uprightness standards. Therefore, Brandon often came off as an uptight, judgmental, double-standard-having jerkface. Brandon Walsh would have had nine separate heart attacks if he'd gone to school with the kids from Gossip Girl. I'm glad you're doing this retrospective. 90210 premiered when I was a freshman in high school, so it's like a garishly dressed time capsule. I like to play a little game with myself to see how long it takes for me to realize how bad/weird an outfit or hairstyle is, since some of them were so popular in my formative years that I just accept them on first glance.

One of the most interesting aspects of the earliest seasons was that the original concept was to produce a weekly primetime afterschool special. In fact, 90210 killed the afterschool special for good. In the beginning, almost every episode was about some Hot Teen Topic — underage drinking, drunk driving, absentee parents, parents on drugs, date rape, guns, etc. Brandon and Brenda were supposed to be all-American kids with strong midwestern values coping with being thrown into this den of money and vice, but pretty soon it got really soapy. Viewers cared way more about Brenda and Dylan's relationship (and the Kelly-Dylan-Brenda endless love triangle of doom) than about learning Important Lessons.

The show still paid lip service to the afterschool special aspects, usually by having Brandon be appalled and disappointed by somebody failing to meet his moral uprightness standards. Therefore, Brandon often came off as an uptight, judgmental, double-standard-having jerkface. Brandon Walsh would have had nine separate heart attacks if he'd gone to school with the kids from Gossip Girl.

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