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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chris2" data-source="post: 384731" data-attributes="member: 495">It made for great drama, but the concept is ridiculous. How convenient that the fields split so nicely in terms of production: fields #1-17 for JR, #18-34 for Bobby. C’mon, that’s just silly. And what about the shared services departments of Ewing Oil? Who is ensuring their neutrality? The heads of those departments certainly have their preferences (JR vs Bobby). The company never would have recovered from the split.Jock would have been better off just splitting off part of the company for one of the sons, permanently. I‘ve seen that happen IRL - a local dry cleaning chain wound up splitting the stores when it passed to the next generation. Some remained part of the main chain, and a few went to the younger son, who renamed them and used them as the basis for his own chain. But Dallas wasn’t willing to give up the conceit of JR and Bobby battling for control of the company any more than they were willing to let the Ewing children live someplace other than Southfork (with the exception of any child who got his own spinoff series).</blockquote>