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<blockquote data-quote="James from London" data-source="post: 443221" data-attributes="member: 22">The early section of the Jenna/Naldo story in the 84/5 season, up to the point where he forces her to jilt Bobby and marry him, is probably the most slow and boring Dallas&nbsp; ever got pre-Dream Season, but from the moment he gets all rapey with her in the motel on their wedding night, it really picks up, partly because of how it intersects with all the other big storylines going on at the same time. For example, it&#039;s only because Bobby asks Jamie to ask JR to contact a judge that might be able to influence Jenna&#039;s bail hearing that Jamie finds JR snogging Serena which leads to both a rift between JR and Sue Ellen and JR kicking Jamie off Southfork, which in turn leads to Jamie joining forces with Cliff to claim their two-thirds of Ewing Oil, which leads to all sorts of shenanigans. Then there&#039;s Cliff and JR continually taking advantage of the latest twists in Jenna&#039;s ordeal and Pam&#039;s search for Mark&nbsp; to keep Bobby and Pam apart, etc. All these plots are deliciously intertwined in quite a Knotsian way. (Funny that it&#039;s the next season that the Knots/Dallas swap-over happens).And again, there&#039;s lots of great guest characters along the way: as well as those involved in the actual trial, there&#039;s the Laredo judge (&quot;an ornery son of a gun,&quot; as Scotty describes him) who refuses Jenna&#039;s bail because he resents the Ewings; the doomed Veronica Robinson; her Julia Cumson-ish sister; Mr Parrish the wonderfully fastidious antiques dealer; and the brilliantly chilling hitman, Andre Schumann.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="James from London, post: 443221, member: 22"] The early section of the Jenna/Naldo story in the 84/5 season, up to the point where he forces her to jilt Bobby and marry him, is probably the most slow and boring [I]Dallas[/I] ever got pre-Dream Season, but from the moment he gets all rapey with her in the motel on their wedding night, it really picks up, partly because of how it intersects with all the other big storylines going on at the same time. For example, it's only because Bobby asks Jamie to ask JR to contact a judge that might be able to influence Jenna's bail hearing that Jamie finds JR snogging Serena which leads to both a rift between JR and Sue Ellen and JR kicking Jamie off Southfork, which in turn leads to Jamie joining forces with Cliff to claim their two-thirds of Ewing Oil, which leads to all sorts of shenanigans. Then there's Cliff and JR continually taking advantage of the latest twists in Jenna's ordeal and Pam's search for Mark to keep Bobby and Pam apart, etc. All these plots are deliciously intertwined in quite a Knotsian way. (Funny that it's the [I]next[/I] season that the [I]Knots/Dallas[/I] swap-over happens). And again, there's lots of great guest characters along the way: as well as those involved in the actual trial, there's the Laredo judge ("an ornery son of a gun," as Scotty describes him) who refuses Jenna's bail because he resents the Ewings; the doomed Veronica Robinson; her Julia Cumson-ish sister; Mr Parrish the wonderfully fastidious antiques dealer; and the brilliantly chilling hitman, Andre Schumann. [/QUOTE]

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