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Dallas - The Original Series
1984-85: A season of decline
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<blockquote data-quote="Mustard" data-source="post: 398577" data-attributes="member: 46"><p>Yes, and that's what I meant by Miss Ellie being totally secure in her privilege. Jock started out working class. And new money in big oil is a different kind of privilege to old money in the land. Oil money is wheeling and dealing business, and therefore less secure. Old money in the land is rooted and more aristocratic. Of course, the 1930s depression era was a nightmare for the Southworths, where they needed bailing out, but the Southworth values about themselves and their attitudes about the world won't change too much. Jock and Miss Ellie's relationship and marriage is a compromise between new money and old money. People can have whatever opinions about Donna Reed's portrayal of Miss Ellie as they want, but all this dynamic between the Southworth and Ewing outlooks was lost because of how Reed saw and played the character of Miss Ellie rather than because of any acting ability per se. Those Dallas fans who say that Barbara's Miss Ellie wasn't right for an oil baron's wife also have the same faults as Donna Reed on the character of Miss Ellie. The rancher's daughter outlook on the part of Miss Ellie is a big part of what made Dallas tick, what made it BIG. Ewing vs. Southworth is as important to Dallas' dynamics as Ewing vs. Barnes.</p><p></p><p>J.R. is different from his daddy in the sense that he's always known, in his mind since childhood, the ruthless oil business edge, so is very secure in his privilege, but which is totally rooted in the new money of oil, so he's therefore also very different from his mother in that sense. J.R. has little interest in ranching beyond Southfork's standing for the Ewing family image. In one of the early episodes, Sue Ellen sets up J.R. to go to a cattle auction with Jock, asking J.R. "Don't you want to spend more time with him, darling?" and J.R. responded "Not around a bunch of cows, I don't".</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mustard, post: 398577, member: 46"] Yes, and that's what I meant by Miss Ellie being totally secure in her privilege. Jock started out working class. And new money in big oil is a different kind of privilege to old money in the land. Oil money is wheeling and dealing business, and therefore less secure. Old money in the land is rooted and more aristocratic. Of course, the 1930s depression era was a nightmare for the Southworths, where they needed bailing out, but the Southworth values about themselves and their attitudes about the world won't change too much. Jock and Miss Ellie's relationship and marriage is a compromise between new money and old money. People can have whatever opinions about Donna Reed's portrayal of Miss Ellie as they want, but all this dynamic between the Southworth and Ewing outlooks was lost because of how Reed saw and played the character of Miss Ellie rather than because of any acting ability per se. Those Dallas fans who say that Barbara's Miss Ellie wasn't right for an oil baron's wife also have the same faults as Donna Reed on the character of Miss Ellie. The rancher's daughter outlook on the part of Miss Ellie is a big part of what made Dallas tick, what made it BIG. Ewing vs. Southworth is as important to Dallas' dynamics as Ewing vs. Barnes. J.R. is different from his daddy in the sense that he's always known, in his mind since childhood, the ruthless oil business edge, so is very secure in his privilege, but which is totally rooted in the new money of oil, so he's therefore also very different from his mother in that sense. J.R. has little interest in ranching beyond Southfork's standing for the Ewing family image. In one of the early episodes, Sue Ellen sets up J.R. to go to a cattle auction with Jock, asking J.R. "Don't you want to spend more time with him, darling?" and J.R. responded "Not around a bunch of cows, I don't". [/QUOTE]
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