It just doesn't feel right. No!

[Werewillie Oleson]

I was late to the party so I didn't live its cancellation "live", and maybe that's why it feels as if I just woke up from a great dream and I can't accept the harsh reality of the un-dream without Nuevo Dallas.


But if I wasn't dreaming in my dream does that mean I'm dreaming now?
It's so surreal that it all ended so abruptly, A gruesome soap amputation that's left a never-ending phantom pain.

Or did it never happen at all?

 

[DallasFanForever]

They should’ve matched the tiles on that poster to the ones in Pam’s bathroom. Now that would’ve been funny!

 

[James from London]

I was late to the party so I didn't live its cancellation "live", and maybe that's why it feels as if I just woke up from a great dream and I can't accept the harsh reality of the un-dream without Nuevo Dallas.

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But if I wasn't dreaming in my dream does that mean I'm dreaming now?
It's so surreal that it all ended so abruptly, A gruesome soap amputation that's left a never-ending phantom pain.
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Or did it never happen at all?

I heard an interview with Josh Henderson recently where he said they'd all signed up to do it for ten years. "We'd still be doing it now." I don't think he's quite gotten over it either. I know I haven't.

 

[Werewillie Oleson]

they'd all signed up to do it for ten years

Oh! what could have been!

I don't think he's quite gotten over it either.

In this day and age it's simply not achievable to become as big as classic Dallas, but it was definitely his "thing" and I guess it felt like he was in the process of making a name for himself.

 

[tommie]

I heard an interview with Josh Henderson recently where he said they'd all signed up to do it for ten years. "We'd still be doing it now." I don't think he's quite gotten over it either. I know I haven't.

I really doubt they'd signed up to do it for ten years; I think the standard contracts range between 5-7 seasons, where the later is close enough I guess.

 

[James from London]

Well he said what he said is all I’m sayin’.

 

[stevew]

I wish they did deliver 10 years of Dallas, at 10 episodes a season would have been fine, more a kin to what we see like on Netflix. That would have been good for me. But what we got never felt like Dallas.

1) The house (interior) didn't return and the exterior was being sold from day one.
2) Ewing Oil itself was gone and there was nothing in it's place, they were kind of panhandling for money.
3) JR was a fraction of himself, even if LH was ill, they couldn't even use what time they had to have a larger than life character making us cringe and laugh (even if we didn't see LH doing it, maybe off camera or something that was more than a shadow of the iconic character).
4) No one else was recognizable: Bobby was old and bitter, Cliff was batshit nuts, OK Sue Ellen felt like Sue Ellen of old but it seemed like she lost all the strength we saw her acquire, Ray and Lucy were like Shakespearean ghosts
5) And all the new characters: John Ross was a looser kid, Chris was a bratty kid, Pamela was a batshit crazy kid (though they were all well into adulthood) and everyone else was where the hell did they come from (couldn't even say Carmen was Teresa's sister or cousin or something).

So to me what we saw was a bad dream. Less Dallas than Pam's dream. But there were moment's I liked, which made it so hard to see it just die. It really was a good idea with a big fan base turning out, and unfortunately it was poor executed.

 

[Rove]

It really was a good idea with a big fan base turning out, and unfortunately it was poor executed.

That in itself sums up beautifully what TNT Dallas could have been. 14 years had passed and yet over 8 million (U.S.) viewers were keen to catch up with televisions first family; the Ewing's.

 

[Rove]

It's so surreal that it all ended so abruptly, A gruesome soap amputation that's left a never-ending phantom pain.

Well said Willie. I have my fingers and toes crossed that one day, a true fan of Dallas will revisit this family and offer me some closure before I exit stage left.

 

[Spooky Owl!]

It's so surreal that it all ended so abruptly, A gruesome soap amputation that's left a never-ending phantom pain.

Poetry!

 

[Werewillie Oleson]

and offer me some closure before I exit stage left

Funnily enough it's not the cliffhanger itself that upsets me. That was the situation with original Dynasty when I had prepared myself for saying a (sad) goodbye to SoapLand's #1..eh I mean #2 family. I knew it was going to be the last season and, consequently, the last episode - but it never occured to me that it was cancelled.

A "new beginning" should not be just 3 seasons, that's absurd, that's not how it works in the soap genre.
And I'm sure that fans would still disagree with stuff, but at least they'd have the luxury to complain. Now there's nothing. Dead. Gone. And that hurts.

As much as I love The Colbys, I'm kinda OK with its short-lived run. They gave us some fabulous Dynasty Extra and it was a lot of fun but it never needed to exist in the first place. It was more like a very beautiful gift. Besides, that's happened such a long time ago so it doesn't feel relevant anymore.
But New Dallas still feels very cancelled.

 

[tommie]

A "new beginning" should not be just 3 seasons, that's absurd, that's not how it works in the soap genre.
And I'm sure that fans would still disagree with stuff, but at least they'd have the luxury to complain. Now there's nothing. Dead. Gone. And that hurts.

*shrug* When NuMelrose was cancelled I just felt all this lost potential and I wanted a new beginning.

They didn't get the characters, but they were getting there by the end and well... that's how it ends. Surprise bitches. That's just life and you will deal.

 

[Werewillie Oleson]

When NuMelrose was cancelled I just felt all this lost potential and I wanted a new beginning

Amanda and Pamela Rebecca said almost the same thing!

Funny you should mention Melrose, because yesterday I was thinking that Sammy Jo would have been the ultimate Dynasty-Dallas crossover character.

(not Alexis, because she was too Dynasty for Dallas).

 

[tommie]

Amanda and Pamela Rebecca said almost the same thing!

Funny you should mention Melrose, because yesterday I was thinking that Sammy Jo would have been the ultimate Dynasty-Dallas crossover character.
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(not Alexis, because she was too Dynasty for Dallas).

Sammy Jo wouldn't just have crossed over to Dallas, she would've crossed over to the 90s soaps (since she, y'know, changed her name to Amanda Woodward Parezi Burns Whatever-Floats-Your-Boat) and then she would've crossed over to nuDallas and started an affair with nuTracy McKay if there had been a season 4! Oh those bastards at TNT to derive us of that.

 

[Werewillie Oleson]

Are you suggesting that Amanda was Sammy Jo with amnesia, a la Randall Adams?

 

[Karin Schill]

Well said Willie. I have my fingers and toes crossed that one day, a true fan of Dallas will revisit this family and offer me some closure before I exit stage left.

Hi Rove,
I don't know how you feel about reading fanfics. But if you are into that I invite you to read my Dallas TNT fanfic that I wrote last year. It is posted in full so the story has an ending:

Dallas TNT - "Forgiveness"

Hi Everyone, So I'm back with a brand new story. :) I hope that you are all doing well and are safe in this trying times that we are currently facing in the world. I know a lot of people around the globe are currently in lock down or are afraid for their health or the health of a family member...

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I wrote it in an attempt to give closure to fans who were dissatisfied with the way Dallas TNT ended. Also to get closure myself since unfortuantely there don't seem to be a tv movie or anything coming. Also since Ken Kercheval died the only way to redeem Cliff was to do it in fanfics. I really didn't like how they left Cliff to die in that Mexican prison. So well the theme of my story is forgiveness. Oh and I brought back a fan favorite too from the dead that would probably never have been possible to bring back on the screen.

Take care,
Best wishes:
Karin.

 

[tommie]

Are you suggesting that Amanda was Sammy Jo with amnesia, a la Randall Adams?

Well, Amanda did spend a few years in the early 90s with Jack Parezi in Miami... so yes, Amanda Woodward was definitively Sammy Jo with a haircut.

 

[Miss Texas 1967]

I heard an interview with Josh Henderson recently where he said they'd all signed up to do it for ten years. "We'd still be doing it now." I don't think he's quite gotten over it either. I know I haven't.

This is actually a pretty lovely thing to say. Josh Henderson obviously took the job seriously and was well up for the challenge, it's just too bad what he was given to work with was what it was.

 

[James from London]

This is actually a pretty lovely thing to say. Josh Henderson obviously took the job seriously and was well up for the challenge, it's just too bad what he was given to work with was what it was.

Well, we'll have to agree to disagree on that last part! I feel Henderson and the show complimented each other beautifully. His acting elevated the writing and the writing elevated his acting. They both kind of rose to meet each other if that makes sense.

I also was struck during the interview when he mentioned he's never known his father. Given the complexities of his father/son relationship on DALLAS, and the loss of JR halfway through the series - well, I don't wanna play pound-shop psychologist, but there must have been a lot there for him to get his teeth into.

 

[Miss Texas 1967]

Well, we'll have to agree to disagree on that last part! I feel Henderson and the show complimented each other beautifully. His acting elevated the writing and the writing elevated his acting. They both kind of rose to meet each other if that makes sense.

I also was struck during the interview when he mentioned he's never known his father. Given the complexities of his father/son relationship on DALLAS, and the loss of JR halfway through the series - well, I don't wanna play pound-shop psychologist, but there must have been a lot there for him to get his teeth into.

Sorry I meant it as a positive. Josh Henderson's John Ross was a bright spot on the TNT landscape. With better surroundings the character could have had so much more.