Is this for Real

[Ray_Krebbs]

I thought it was a huge mistake to make the reunions not canon. Now, there are three multiverses we know of: the dream, 1986 to 1998, and TNT lol. It is sci-fi now.

 

[Taylor Bennett Jr.]

Absolutely ...................................................................NOT!

but… perhaps the greatest Dallas chronicler of all, the legendary James of London, literally goes back to his classic Dallas episode reviews and amends his totally accurate old opinions based on new insights from watching New Dallas.. which reads to me like “after reading ‘Ray And Jenna Forever’ on lousyfanfiction.tv I now consider them the #1 supercouple in the history of television!”

it’s a long-held-world-view-questioning-level curiosity, but he’s certainly earned the right to go against the forum zeitgeist!

Are James and the also-great Willie Oleson trolling us with their radical pro-Cidre agenda?? I don’t think so!?

 

[Seaviewer]

Out of curiosity, do other people here actually view it as a part of the original series? I mean, for me, the original show kinda stops with the reunion movies, but I mean...is it canon, not canon?? I can't quite make my mind up. Quite frankly, I almost wish nothing past 1990 was canon.

I do regard it as canon, but . . .

I thought it was a huge mistake to make the reunions not canon. Now, there are three multiverses we know of: the dream, 1986 to 1998, and TNT lol. It is sci-fi now.

. . . inconsistencies abound even within each,

Honestly, I'm sort of surprised we haven't had a remake (not a reboot). So many older shows (Magnum PI, Hawaii 5.0, etc) have been redone with new actors. An updated Dallas would be kind of interesting.

I guess I'd watch it out of curiosity.

Art should never be fixed, let alone by AI. It would be like watching lots of Dream Season scenarios because it didn't really happen.

Again, I'd watch them out of curiosity.

a continuation may be dead, but whoever owns the rights is sitting on several already-conceived storylines with the “Middle Years”. In the right hands, the thing would pretty much write itself. If they want to add raciness, they can always grab some inspiration from the great Lee Raintree…

Forward is always my preference over prequels and midquels.

 

[Ray_Krebbs]

I wonder if the aliens who abducted Fallon have anything to do with these universes... or Rick and Morty lol.

 

[Toni]

I´m happy to disregard the telemovies and not consider them canon. They were incongruous (JR "shot the mirror" but we didn´t hear it breaking into pieces?), PSA-like (John Ross and Chris as representation of being Un-PC and PC resp.?), miscast (Pamela Rebecca being much taller that her parents?), characters acting out-of-character (Miss Ellie not attending EVEN her son´s funeral, J.R. faking his death), fan-ficcy (Sue Ellen rushing to sleep with him, Cliff thinking he was PR´s dad again).

Actually, the Cider House took the better things from it (J.R. back into action, Bobby wanting to sell Southfork, Cliff as a tycoon, Sue Ellen and John Ross living in Dallas again, Bobby coupled with another woman, and, of course, J.R. orchestrating his own death, now definitive) and then mixed up with the worst trashy ideas she could find (insert here your choices). Also, her cast was so much better than what they did with the Reunions, especially re. Josh Henderson and Julie Gonzalo. I would watch any continuation with these two as John Ross and Rebecca.

 

[CeeCee72]

My brain absolutely insists that both the TV movies and the TNT continuation were Pam's dreams. Wherever she is, she's still dreaming about the Ewings.

Dallas canon ends with Conundrum for me.

 

[Michelle Stevens]

It's a shame. I felt that TNT Dallas was 1/3 good, 2/3 bad. The two reunion movies didn't bother me. In hindsight a new Dallas series could have worked soon after the 2004 The Return to Southfork television special and when the DVD's of the original series began to be released.

 

[CeeCee72]

It's a shame. I felt that TNT Dallas was 1/3 good, 2/3 bad. The two reunion movies didn't bother me. In hindsight a new Dallas series could have worked soon after the 2004 The Return to Southfork television special and when the DVD's of the original series began to be released.

I thought JR returns was fine until I recently watched it on YouTube. All the things @Toni pointed out above bothered me too.

I've always hated the War of the Ewings. First of, the entire plot was built around Ray still owning his ranch which had LONG been gone.

I hate discounting continuity. Both TV movies did that and the TNT revival did as well.

If they had have done a continuation after Return to Southfork, I think they might have been stuck sticking to the continuity of the TV movies.