Dynasty has its reboot why not Dallas. But this time do it properly. I want it to have original dallas charactors like Miss Ellie,Jock and JR and Bobby and SueEllen and Pam. I want it to be very much like the original Dallas with well written charactors and charactor driven storylines. The cast will be new. Cidre will not be anywhere near it. The sets will be better.Do you think that this could work?
First of all I want to congratulate you on "Cidre will not be anywhere near it" because that is crucial!
As for do I think it could work, I'll tell you what in my opinion has the best chance to work. I'd like to see a Dallas series that would focus on an earlier time period. The first Dallas began with the day that Bobby brought his brand new wife - Pam - to Southfork. The Dallas series I have in mind would start earlier but not as early as "Dallas: The Early Years." This Dallas would start with the day that Pamela Barnes was born so that we could see what things were like for Pam and Cliff growing up as well as see what things were like at Southfork when JR, Gary and Bobby were still little boys.
I'd love to see the time period starting with that for several reasons:
1. It would be fascinating to see Jock and Miss Ellie raising JR, Gary and Bobby so that we could see the things they did that contributed to shaping them into the men those boys became. We'd see how Jock treated JR and see JR's early interest in working for his dad, starting with Jock taking JR into the oil fields to see what a gusher looked like and experience the excitement of actually striking oil. We'd see the beginnings of Jock's problems with Gary as well as Miss Ellie's relationship with Gary. We'd see how when Bobby was just a toddler the way Jock treated him and showed favoritism toward Bobby by doing things like spoiling him.
2. It would be exciting to see Jock becoming a self made man. he didn't inherit anything. By this time Ewing Oil would already be a successful oil company but still a relatively small company compared to what it became. Seeing Jock build Ewing Oil from a small company into an empire would be great! It would also be fascinating to see just how much of a "hardball player" Jock was regarding how tough he treated competitors. how he treated his friends in the oil business, and exactly how ruthless he was. Was he almost as ruthless as JR or maybe even just as ruthless in his own way? Where did Jock draw the line when it came to his personal code of business ethics? Did he do illegal things and of so, what kind of illegal things? How far into the illegal side of things would Jock go to build his company? How did Jock treat his employees? If Jock was going to run somebody out of business did he even warn them that he would be coming after them? Did he fight fair?
3. What was Jock and Miss Ellie's home life like back then? Remember that Miss Ellie's main reason for marrying Jock was to save Southfork from the auction block. How did Jock get Miss Ellie to fall in love with him more and more as time went by? What kind of a mother and father were Miss Ellie and Jock when the boys were little? What was their social life like such as the beginnings of their friendships with Punk and Mavis Anderson? What did Miss Ellie do while Jock was at work besides raise the boys?
4. Meanwhile, what were things like in the Barnes household as Cliff and Pam were growing up? What was it really like for them to have Dogger as a father and what were some of the things that Digger did to instill such a deep hatred of the Ewings into Cliff? What kind of a substitute mom was Aunt Maggie for Pam and Cliff? How did Cliff and Pam deal with such a tough childhood and how did Cliff treat his baby sister Pam?
5. They could even show the Wade ranch - the ranch next to Southfrok where Jenna grew up. We could see Jenna's dad's friendship with Jock and Jenna's childhood romance with Bobby.
I'd love to see all these things. In general I like to see series that go back to a certain period of the past and show us what life was like in those days. By showing JR, Gary, Bobby, Cliff, Pam and Jenna as children, we wouldn't have the problem of actors trying to live up to the performances given by actors such as Larry Hagman, Patrick Duffy, Ken Kercheval and Victoria Principal. The characters as adults in the original Dallas were such iconic characters and they were portrayed so perfectly by the actors who played them that it would be incredibly difficult for the actors in the new show to live up to the performances turned in by the actors who played these iconic characters. This way, by showing them as children, there wouldn't be the problem of having the direct comparisons drawn between the actors playing them in this series compared to in the original Dallas series.
