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Looking Back At It, Miss Ellie Was Very Selfish.
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<blockquote data-quote="Snarky Oracle!" data-source="post: 443391" data-attributes="member: 57984"><p>The Ewings of the very early days were what David Jacobs had conceived: white trash with money, corruption in a Texas ranch house. All of the Ewings, even Miss "I don't care if it's fair!" Ellie, were kind of creeps. But in a very series television sort of way, most of the lead characters were quickly redeemed and only naughty J.R. and his blustering play-buddy, Cliff, retained their original flaws. (In fact, Cliff got worse, but only in a cartoonish way).</p><p></p><p>Not that I'm complaining. But that was more realistic for this kind of uber-rich, powerful family. Not the later Ewings, softened and decent-ified as per the bourgeois expectations of the middleclass audience of the era, where most of the characters shifted into morally upstanding citizens aghast at the machinations of the eldest brother.</p><p></p><p>As Larry said, if DALLAS showed what really went on in the oil business, "they'd blow up CBS!"</p><p></p><p>What was always so funny is how Gary and the denizens of KNOTS LANDING, completely run by David Jacobs, continued to talk about the Texas wing of the Ewings as if they were the vilest corporate clan in the western hemisphere.</p><p></p><p>Of all the key characters, Miss Ellie remains the one most-compromised and least realized of them all, and I view that as emblematic of what was wrong behind (and in front) of the camera during the last deleterious half of the original series. Especially for the women: Pam grew as a character, Sue Ellen gradually crawled out of the bottle and went into business, Lucy started dressing in a way that no longer looked like she lived at Sow Pork, but Miss Ellie just deteriorated.</p><p></p><p>Katzman wanted no ballbusters residing at the ranch. So there was nothing scruffy Miss Ellie was permitted to do if she still lived there, eventually leaving the Lone Star State forever while she sailed around the Mediterranean (however improbable as that seemed). The only remaining original female cast member needed to be beefed up in the closing years, and instead was further trivialized and pushed out.</p><p></p><p>If the writers devalue Miss Ellie, the show is lost. Same with Krystle. And both programs soon had zero interest in either character. (At least the producers of DYNASTY admitted they had no idea what to do with Krystle).</p><p></p><p> [ATTACH=full]59484[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Snarky Oracle!, post: 443391, member: 57984"] The Ewings of the very early days were what David Jacobs had conceived: white trash with money, corruption in a Texas ranch house. All of the Ewings, even Miss "I don't care if it's fair!" Ellie, were kind of creeps. But in a very series television sort of way, most of the lead characters were quickly redeemed and only naughty J.R. and his blustering play-buddy, Cliff, retained their original flaws. (In fact, Cliff got worse, but only in a cartoonish way). Not that I'm complaining. But that was more realistic for this kind of uber-rich, powerful family. Not the later Ewings, softened and decent-ified as per the bourgeois expectations of the middleclass audience of the era, where most of the characters shifted into morally upstanding citizens aghast at the machinations of the eldest brother. As Larry said, if DALLAS showed what really went on in the oil business, "they'd blow up CBS!" What was always so funny is how Gary and the denizens of KNOTS LANDING, completely run by David Jacobs, continued to talk about the Texas wing of the Ewings as if they were the vilest corporate clan in the western hemisphere. Of all the key characters, Miss Ellie remains the one most-compromised and least realized of them all, and I view that as emblematic of what was wrong behind (and in front) of the camera during the last deleterious half of the original series. Especially for the women: Pam grew as a character, Sue Ellen gradually crawled out of the bottle and went into business, Lucy started dressing in a way that no longer looked like she lived at Sow Pork, but Miss Ellie just deteriorated. Katzman wanted no ballbusters residing at the ranch. So there was nothing scruffy Miss Ellie was permitted to do if she still lived there, eventually leaving the Lone Star State forever while she sailed around the Mediterranean (however improbable as that seemed). The only remaining original female cast member needed to be beefed up in the closing years, and instead was further trivialized and pushed out. If the writers devalue Miss Ellie, the show is lost. Same with Krystle. And both programs soon had zero interest in either character. (At least the producers of DYNASTY admitted they had no idea what to do with Krystle). [ATTACH type="full" width="947px" alt="dallas1978.jpg"]59484[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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