The Ewings' biggest secret ?
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tommie
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I think Jack has the Ewings´ best secret...
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Willie Oleson
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Unless there was no blood at all! Could DALLAS have done a vampire storyline? Could he have been Count Victor Vandervamp?
Snarky Oracle!
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Yes, you can't do a vampire storyline on DALLAS without Victoria.
Michael Torrance
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Lucy had betrayed the other hobbits and had hidden her precious somewhere in Southfork, while unsuccessfully trying to disguise herself in human form (and size).
Luke_Krebbs_Ewing
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It's not often he does that, is it!!
Billy Wall
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Speaking of Ray and Lucy’s incest, didn’t Bobby see them get unusually cozy at the disco and got into a brief altercation with Ray?
Rove
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I've always been intrigued by this idea. Some of course hate the concept but it would have been a treat if leading up to "The Decline and Fall of the Ewing Empire," there was some suggestion if he was a Ewing or Barnes. Not having Miss Ellie at Southfork would have added to the intrigue.
From behind bars Jeremy Wendell overseas some paperwork. He slides it into an envelope and hands it to a guard. As the guard walks away we witness one final moment of Jeremy offering a wicked grin.
At Southfork JR is alone, outside, leaning against a support post, sipping on a Bourbon & Branch, contemplating the loss of Ewing Oil and his position on WestStar. He looks over at the patio table where he remembers the good times and bad. We see Jock's hand gun on the table. A courier arrives and hand delivers the envelope to JR. He takes a seat and removes the paperwork from the envelope. There are no words in this scene, just JR looking despondent as if the final nail for his coffin has been delivered. He places his hand on the gun as the camera pans away and moves over the building to the front view of Southfork.
As the final scene shows the house which offered so much drama...
...we hear a gun shot.
Fade to black...end series...with no Conundrum to follow.
Fade to black...end series...with no Conundrum to follow.
stevew
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I think there was something to do with Venezuela - Jock being there, Lee Anna De Le Vega, communist control of the world's largest oil reserves, somethings there larger than Falcon Crest or Dynasty could ever imagine, something to make the Ewing's bigger in oil than the the Rockefellers - control of OPEC and the Russians, the play that put them on top and gave birth to the 21st century.
DallasFanForever
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You are correct! That was in the episode LESSONS, the second episode of the miniseries.
Sarah
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Jacqueline Perrault prays for deliverance from the fires of eternal Hell --- and to get all her Van Goghs back from Texas.... otherwise, she'll send her sister to Braddock to replace Miss Ellie and just hope nobody will notice.
Thought for a minute this was Lucy and was hoping for another of your 'Sue Ellen in the attic' type scenarios
stevew
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Not sure what a 'Sue Ellen in the attic' scenario is - but I'd never place the most beautiful woman who ever lived in the attic. But like caging a song bird. Heat breaking.Thought for a minute this was Lucy and was hoping for another of your 'Sue Ellen in the attic' type scenarios
Snarky Oracle!
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"I never wanna leave this place -- I hope they never find me up here..."
Sarah
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THIS :for:
stevew
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Sorry about the typos - fat fingers on a smart phone keyboard. Should have read:
Bit like caging a song bird. Heart breaking. :love8:
the-lost-son
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Dallas was always great at secrets.
We got so many like:
- Who shot JR
- Who shot Bobby
- Whose car hit SueEllen?
-Edgar Randolph's past
My favorite is the past of the Southern Cross with Lady Jessica and Clayton's first wive. So exceptionally well written and the story could have gone either way. It was so thrilling the first time I watched because it totally seemed possible that Clayton might have had a dark secret. Dusty being Jessica's son, Miss Ellie in danger.
The story was firing on all cylinders.
Secrets from the past were always great.
I liked the Hutch McKinney storyline (didn't like the deathbed confession though), I liked the court battle for Ewing Oil when Jack turned up.
He was at his most interesting when it wasn't clear that he was a white knight replacement.
Secrets in series nearly always work. (see Desperate housewives)
I would have welcomed any more secrets regarding Southfork especially.
We got so many like:
- Who shot JR
- Who shot Bobby
- Whose car hit SueEllen?
-Edgar Randolph's past
My favorite is the past of the Southern Cross with Lady Jessica and Clayton's first wive. So exceptionally well written and the story could have gone either way. It was so thrilling the first time I watched because it totally seemed possible that Clayton might have had a dark secret. Dusty being Jessica's son, Miss Ellie in danger.
The story was firing on all cylinders.
Secrets from the past were always great.
I liked the Hutch McKinney storyline (didn't like the deathbed confession though), I liked the court battle for Ewing Oil when Jack turned up.
He was at his most interesting when it wasn't clear that he was a white knight replacement.
Secrets in series nearly always work. (see Desperate housewives)
I would have welcomed any more secrets regarding Southfork especially.
Snarky Oracle!
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Yes, these shows run well on secrets -- secret obscured and secrets revealed. When well-done. Which is one of the reason DALLAS worked in its key era, and why FALCON CREST worked in its early seasons.
DYNASTY mostly stumbled because although they, too, had secrets, the writers couldn't seem to remember what they were.
I'm not sure if KNOTS necessarily need secrets in the same way -- largely because the show was so damned smart, and because it wasn't about an extended family.