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Oh, yes. Jenna. Let's kill Jenna!
Whodunnit? Like with MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS.......
All that adrenochrome, don'tchyaknow.
Is Another Dallas Reboot Planned For Peacock?
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Oh, yes. Jenna. Let's kill Jenna!
Whodunnit? Like with MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS.......
All that adrenochrome, don'tchyaknow.
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I still think a prequel series is the best option, at this point. I know that there was a TV movie that explored that time
I think it's possible with a good writers team who understand the original Dallas.
I did my own attempt at picking up after the Dallas TNT show in my fanfic "Forgiveness" that I have posted in the writer's room. It picks up at Cliff Barnes' funeral and everything that happened on Dallas TNT is considered canon too. But I've reversed a couple of storylines I didn't like.
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I'm one for umbrella explanations -- when possible -- to rationalize seeming contradictions.
For example, in the 1986 RETURN TO SOUTHFORK prequel movie, they should have filmed at the Box Ranch, not yet burned. Later in oldDALLAS, mention that the ranch house was hit by a twister only a few months after Bobby brought Pamela home ("must've been an omen," remarks JR). And since the prequel was filmed at the "new" Southfork anyway, state that it was burned in the '60s, reconstructed as the Box Ranch, and then was hit by that twister in 1978 and again reconstructed out of nostalgia to look like the original house we saw in the prequel and most of the series.
Stupid? Yeah, but what are you gonna do?
And that doesn't fix the fact that the prequel has tiny Bobby & Pam meeting at a barbecue in 1951 when neither of them were born yet, given that it was specified in 1980 that they were both born in late 1952. Never mind Bobby's headstone showing his birthyear as 1949 (but that was a dream, and we know Pam always misremembers ages) and that his I.D. card when he was kidnapped early in the first full season shows he was born in 1966 and therefore just 12 years old.
So then you just explain that someone mis-recalled those dates.
Barring that, that aquifer under Southfork that Jeremy Wendell poisoned in 1984, which caused the Ewings to perceive Mama with a different head for a year, was still having its long-term effect on the family's memory and cognition. Thus, any discrepancy can be corrected.
For example, in the 1986 RETURN TO SOUTHFORK prequel movie, they should have filmed at the Box Ranch, not yet burned. Later in oldDALLAS, mention that the ranch house was hit by a twister only a few months after Bobby brought Pamela home ("must've been an omen," remarks JR). And since the prequel was filmed at the "new" Southfork anyway, state that it was burned in the '60s, reconstructed as the Box Ranch, and then was hit by that twister in 1978 and again reconstructed out of nostalgia to look like the original house we saw in the prequel and most of the series.
Stupid? Yeah, but what are you gonna do?
And that doesn't fix the fact that the prequel has tiny Bobby & Pam meeting at a barbecue in 1951 when neither of them were born yet, given that it was specified in 1980 that they were both born in late 1952. Never mind Bobby's headstone showing his birthyear as 1949 (but that was a dream, and we know Pam always misremembers ages) and that his I.D. card when he was kidnapped early in the first full season shows he was born in 1966 and therefore just 12 years old.
So then you just explain that someone mis-recalled those dates.
Barring that, that aquifer under Southfork that Jeremy Wendell poisoned in 1984, which caused the Ewings to perceive Mama with a different head for a year, was still having its long-term effect on the family's memory and cognition. Thus, any discrepancy can be corrected.
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Oh he was good at that during TNT times - smarming up to inept Cidre