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Dallas TNT
Almost 7 million watched the June 13th, 2012 premiere and .............
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<blockquote data-quote="stevew" data-source="post: 300182" data-attributes="member: 130"><p>The more I think about it, the more I lean toward a reboot - modern times, different location, same concept of a wealthy family drama. I just can't see going back to what was and continuing after such a mess on the one hand, and such a great experience on the other, seeing Sue Ellen and JR in full love / hate mode and then loosing JR. </p><p></p><p>Plus for me, the story really ends way back when BBG was replaced by DR. Pam and Christopher have left Dallas, Clayton and Miss Ellie are gone as well, on an extended honeymoon, Katherine is rejected, Cliff is drunk and defeated but maybe not with his oil strike and Afton has left him, Donna is raring to take on JR, and Bobby lies on the floor - dead or alive? Yes there are moments after that which were good, really good, but to me the story ends there. </p><p></p><p>If TNT had JR turn around in the show from the very beginning to reveal it all had been a dream and that Bobby recovered only and later to supposedly have died in a car hit and run to realign with Knots Landing, and everything else was a dream: Pam's dream season, seasons 9-14, two movies (and the TNT which wouldn't have happened). In 2012, I'd have laughed and been happy to watch what comes next. Maybe JR built his Empire and settled down with Sue Ellen into the roles of his father and mother at Southfork (certainly not remodeled) having lost Bobby. Maybe they had more children, now grown: 1) John Ross comes home married to Pamela Barnes, 2) Aaron is working for the business as JR sets out to retire, bisexual and sleeping with everyone in town and married to the granddaughter of the Andersons and 3) Ellie, well, she's JR's daughter, sleeping with a ranch hand, plotting how she can replace her father in controlling his billion dollar empire. Donna as the governor with Ray by her side as First Gentleman. Then we begin with Bobby returning, after years in a comma, assumed dead and living with Pam and then years recouping. Bobby returns much like his Uncle Garrison did, throwing a wrench in the works of the family, except with Christopher by his side, Pam refusing to return to Dallas. Now what does JR do, faced with retirement, old enemies like Cliff and Wendell and even Lucy, and now Bobby showing up. He has a lifetime of sins to account for, and three children to get ready to face the world without him one day (as it turns out, sooner than we expected). </p><p></p><p>But as that didn't happen, maybe another shower scene. This time Sue Ellen turns around, only to realize that JR isn't there. She realizes he has died and all those years in between had been a dream to hold onto him, the DR tenure, Pam's dream season, seasons 9-14, two movies and TNT, all a dream. Bobby had died when Katherine shot him in his office (to align with Knots Landing, not sure if they mentioned how he died) and sometime later Katherine shot and killed JR as well. Miss Ellie and Clayton left Dallas later to pass away, Pamela had a nervous breakdown and has been in an institution for decades and Sue Ellen has raised both boys and a daughter, Ellie, whom she was pregnant with at the time JR was killed. Now those children face the pending death of Sue Ellen and she wants to leave them better off, not fighting. </p><p></p><p>Well anyway, many not, maybe a reboot is just the way to go from here, IF there's to be any such thing. But I really don't want it to close to the original. I want the song, and the layout of the house (though the exterior can be different), and I want the business, something to do with energy, and I want a farm of some sort, a mother and father retiring, and their two boys and granddaughter living with them and the name Ewing and South Fork and the theme music.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="stevew, post: 300182, member: 130"] The more I think about it, the more I lean toward a reboot - modern times, different location, same concept of a wealthy family drama. I just can't see going back to what was and continuing after such a mess on the one hand, and such a great experience on the other, seeing Sue Ellen and JR in full love / hate mode and then loosing JR. Plus for me, the story really ends way back when BBG was replaced by DR. Pam and Christopher have left Dallas, Clayton and Miss Ellie are gone as well, on an extended honeymoon, Katherine is rejected, Cliff is drunk and defeated but maybe not with his oil strike and Afton has left him, Donna is raring to take on JR, and Bobby lies on the floor - dead or alive? Yes there are moments after that which were good, really good, but to me the story ends there. If TNT had JR turn around in the show from the very beginning to reveal it all had been a dream and that Bobby recovered only and later to supposedly have died in a car hit and run to realign with Knots Landing, and everything else was a dream: Pam's dream season, seasons 9-14, two movies (and the TNT which wouldn't have happened). In 2012, I'd have laughed and been happy to watch what comes next. Maybe JR built his Empire and settled down with Sue Ellen into the roles of his father and mother at Southfork (certainly not remodeled) having lost Bobby. Maybe they had more children, now grown: 1) John Ross comes home married to Pamela Barnes, 2) Aaron is working for the business as JR sets out to retire, bisexual and sleeping with everyone in town and married to the granddaughter of the Andersons and 3) Ellie, well, she's JR's daughter, sleeping with a ranch hand, plotting how she can replace her father in controlling his billion dollar empire. Donna as the governor with Ray by her side as First Gentleman. Then we begin with Bobby returning, after years in a comma, assumed dead and living with Pam and then years recouping. Bobby returns much like his Uncle Garrison did, throwing a wrench in the works of the family, except with Christopher by his side, Pam refusing to return to Dallas. Now what does JR do, faced with retirement, old enemies like Cliff and Wendell and even Lucy, and now Bobby showing up. He has a lifetime of sins to account for, and three children to get ready to face the world without him one day (as it turns out, sooner than we expected). But as that didn't happen, maybe another shower scene. This time Sue Ellen turns around, only to realize that JR isn't there. She realizes he has died and all those years in between had been a dream to hold onto him, the DR tenure, Pam's dream season, seasons 9-14, two movies and TNT, all a dream. Bobby had died when Katherine shot him in his office (to align with Knots Landing, not sure if they mentioned how he died) and sometime later Katherine shot and killed JR as well. Miss Ellie and Clayton left Dallas later to pass away, Pamela had a nervous breakdown and has been in an institution for decades and Sue Ellen has raised both boys and a daughter, Ellie, whom she was pregnant with at the time JR was killed. Now those children face the pending death of Sue Ellen and she wants to leave them better off, not fighting. Well anyway, many not, maybe a reboot is just the way to go from here, IF there's to be any such thing. But I really don't want it to close to the original. I want the song, and the layout of the house (though the exterior can be different), and I want the business, something to do with energy, and I want a farm of some sort, a mother and father retiring, and their two boys and granddaughter living with them and the name Ewing and South Fork and the theme music. [/QUOTE]
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