Who else appreciates Cally?

[One Mighty Hobble]

I just started the 12th season and Callie is one of my favorite characters. She is so dynamic and interesting. I love how she breaks JR down to fall in love with her and I enjoy seeing them together in the good times... until Vanessa (who I NEVER liked) entered the picture.

I also loved Callie's paintings! And she ends up in Palm Beach, where I used to live. She is a sweet, southern girl and I just love her.

 

[Snarky Oracle!]

I liked her. The actress made it work.

 

[Sarah]

I liked Cally a lot, sweet girl with guts.

 

[DallasFanForever]

I didn’t like the character at first because I just wasn’t a fan of the whole Haleyville storyline but I have to admit that once Cally got to Dallas she did win me over. I especially enjoyed her interactions with Miss Ellie and John Ross and Christopher

 

[Treeviewer]

Yes, I liked her. I've said that she was the last "new" character that I really cared about. She was sweet and the fact that she was totally unfamiliar with that kind of lifestyle made her a breath of fresh air.

I especially enjoyed her interactions with Miss Ellie and John Ross and Christopher

You mean "Christofurrr".

 

[Alexis]

I liked Cally. I mean it wasn't a great time in Dallas writing or anything but like Snarky said the actress made it work. I could easily have hated her on paper but I didn't. She brought a bit of honesty and heart and humour to it and Cathy Podewell was a decent actress.

 

[Angels Chanting]

I hated the character. I just found her unconvincing on almost every level. How was it believable that she would be able to manipulate JR in the way that she did? JR, the man who overthrew a foreign government wasn't able to get the better of naïve country bumpkin? And how did she transform herself overnight from drawing stick men to becoming an accomplished portrait artist who had a sophistication in her work that her earlier paintings showed not signs of her possessing? I just couldn't warm to the character.

 

[Snarky Oracle!]

I hated the character. I just found her unconvincing on almost every level. How was it believable that she would be able to manipulate JR in the way that she did? JR, the man who overthrew a foreign government wasn't able to get the better of naïve country bumpkin? And how did she transform herself overnight from drawing stick men to becoming an accomplished portrait artist who had a sophistication in her work that her earlier paintings showed not signs of her possessing? I just couldn't warm to the character.

Women. They have their tricks.

 

[The First Noele]

Im with you @Angela Channing Hailleyville and Cally and clan are just PAINFUL!!

Cally was just embarassing, and as for that voice (BF shudders!) and she couldnt act her way out of a paper bag

It made JR look like an old perv marrying Cally who could have been his grandaughter and left a very bitter taste! It made him look like a dirty old man and was YUK!

Further dumbing down of the show and getting so far away from the reasons we watched Dallas in the 1st place . The writing was on the wall, thanks goodness for VHS tapes!

Did you not want to buy one of her painting by Numbers @Angela Channing ?

 

[Angels Chanting]

Did you not want to buy one of her painting by Numbers @Angela Channing ?

I rather do something more worthwhile with my hard earned cash like throwing it down the toilet.

 

[Snarky Oracle!]

It made him look like a dirty old man and was YUK!

And JR wasn't a dirty old man??

 

[Karin Schill]

I always liked Cally too. She was a sweet character although her accent was a bit annoying!
She was a complete mismatch for JR though. Ironically when I first watched the episodes as a child I never realized just how big the age gap between them was.

 

[Michelle Stevens]

I generally liked Cally. Her naivate was fresh for the series and her pairing with a mid-fifties JR was almost comical as it was so jarring. I preferred her Southfork time over her Haleyville origins. If only we knew what became of her son by JR. It was good seeing her at JR's funeral in TNT Dallas.

 

[Snarky Oracle!]

Yes, they were a mismatch, but that was also the point. And once JR ran Cally off, why didn't Sue Ellen release her movie vengefully?

As tolerant as I was of her time at Southfork, I didn't like the campy Halleyville introduction.

 

[Top Jimmy]

I liked Cally too. As others mentioned, she was sweet and I liked her interactions with Lucy.

 

[One Mighty Hobble]

I am in and from the south so her accent never annoyed me like it did some of you.

 

[Taylor Bennett Jr.]

having watched the final few years for the first time fairly recently, I found I didn’t mind Cally as much as I thought I might after reading for years
about the show’s decline, but... how on earth did they expect the viewers to invest emotionally in any subsequent dramatic storylines after the giant flashing 9000-foot-tall neon “this is farce” sign that was the Haleyville episodes?

“tune in next week as JR teams up with the Harlem Globetrotters and the Scooby Doo Gang to track down a mysterious talking basketball terrorizing the inhabitants of Gilligan’s Island!”

 

[Luke_Krebbs_Ewing]

I liked Cally but let's face it she was no Sue Ellen.

Given the choice, I'd rather they kept Linda Gray than let her go.

 

[Monzo]

As for Cally, I still don't know if it was the character or the actress that made me never really like the role. She was nice and it was good that JR had an atypical trophy wife, but wouldn't it have been better with a more experienced actress than Cathy Podewell?

How about Robin Wright as Cally? Robin Wright had been nominated three times for a Daytime Emmy for her work on Santa Barbara and she had left the daytime soap in June 1988, so it would have been just the right time to cast her as Cally.

 

[Jock Ewing Fan]

I liked Cathy Podewell
I didn't like the Haleyville story at all, but I liked Callie
after she arrived at Southfork.
I found her to be a sympathetic, even likeable character then.

Unfortunately, Dallas was in decline when she was cast.
I don't think any actress who was cast in that role could have changed that
It is not her fault that the writing had declined.