Create Your Own Cliffhanger

[Ray_Krebbs]

If you could create your own cliffhanger, what would you do? I'd have a drunken Sue Ellen contemplate how she feels all the Ewings betrayed her. She stumbles into the dining room at dinner and holds out a gun. As they all react, it goes to an exterior of the house followed by a gunshot

 

[Jock Ewing Fan]

At the end of the Dream season, Jock Ewing (Steve Forrest wakes up (he has been in a coma). JR, Bobby and Ray are in the hospital room.
JR sys "Daddy, it is time to go home"

 

[Snarky Oracle!]

Someone here cleverly suggested that Sue Ellen scheme to have John Ross kidnapped just as she leaves Dallas and DALLAS... in a very KNOTSian way that DALLAS was probably too chicken to do.

I would have Miss Ellie thrown from a horse when she takes the family out to reveal the secrets of Section 40 to them. She slowly expires in a great death scene.

A year or so later, I would have much of the family crash down into the re-opened well at Section 40 when the rig collapses -- presumably because Miss Ellie never wanted them to drill there, but they felt compelled to do so against her wishes... Series over.

Section 40 should have been very important, at least in the background.

 

[Angela Channing]

Wes Parmalee returns to Southfork with a court order requiring JR and Bobby to take DNA tests to prove he's their father. The first result shows JR is not Parmalee's son but the second test shows that Bobby is his son. So Wes is Jock but Jock is not JR's Daddy.

 

[Michelle Stevens]

Season 11. Wes Parmalee is found beaten to death and Clayton, JR, Bobby and Ray are implicated in his murder. They are put on trial. Miss Ellie finds proof Wes was Jock and her second husband and sons are responsible (in varying degrees) for his murder. Does she tell the jury of this finding or keep it to herself? Will Clayton, JR, Bobby and Ray go to prison? Cliff and Jeremy Wendell are eager to see Ewing Oil buried with a conviction. Cliff mocks the Ewings, especially JR for killing his daddy.

 

[Monzo]

Season 12 is the only cliffhanger I don't like, so Sue Ellen should screen her film at the Cannes Film Festival. There she wins the Palme d'Or and decides to stay at the Rivera.

 

[Snarky Oracle!]

Season 12 is the only cliffhanger I don't like, so Sue Ellen should screen her film at the Cannes Film Festival. There she wins the Palme d'Or and decides to stay at the Rivera.

At the very least, once JR had screwed up his marriage to Cally, Sue Ellen in London should have released her movie -- and let the cow chips fall where they may.

Also, we should have learned that Sue Ellen and Don Lockwood had optioned the film rights to "Capricorn Crude" to make the screenplay's backstory even spicier.


"You bitch! You ripped me off of the profits, and now you're drinking my residuals down like it's water!!"

 

[the-lost-son]

I just love these who dunnits.

The obvious choice and missed opportunity is the killing of the fraud Wes Parmalee (I don't want him to be Jock.)
Plenty of suspects:
Vengeful Clayton and the rest of the Ewings or someone else.

Another possibility is Miss Ellie's life in danger after a sniper shot her at Southfork.
Was it meant for her? Was it supposed to be for JR when one of his schemes backfired? Was it Katherine aiming for Bobby or Lady Jessica once more?
Endless opportunities and the whole cast is affected.

 

[Luke_Krebbs_Ewing]

I would've replaced the season twelve cliffhanger with JR getting into his car and Nicholas Pearce's Father pops up behind him and holds a gun to his head. Freeze frame and end of the season.

 

[Snarky Oracle!]

Another possibility is Miss Ellie's life in danger after a sniper shot her at Southfork.
Was it meant for her? Was it supposed to be for JR when one of his schemes backfired? Was it Katherine aiming for Bobby or Lady Jessica once more?
Endless opportunities and the whole cast is affected.

Or was the sniper hired by JR to "graze" somebody else -- and they hit Miss Ellie instead??

OMG -- JR shot his mama by accident!!

 

[Luke_Krebbs_Ewing]

Wes Parmalee returns to Southfork with a court order requiring JR and Bobby to take DNA tests to prove he's their father. The first result shows JR is not Parmalee's son but the second test shows that Bobby is his son. So Wes is Jock but Jock is not JR's Daddy.

That would've been a great twist.

So Digger Barnes was JR's son all along!

I still think it was a great shame that they reneged on keeping Steve Forrest as a recast Jock Ewing. It could've opened up so much potential for storylines.

 

[Ray_Krebbs]

Perhaps Nick's father could have taken J.R. to the head of the Five Families and his son - played by Marlon Brando and Al Pacino. Freeze frame on their faces

 

[Pammy P]

Digger Barnes was Bobby's real father, and he was married to Pamela, whose natural father was Hutch McKinney, worked out alright. However Bobby was never done out of the Ewing Millions, he just carried on being Bobby James Ewing.

 

[Laurie Marr]

The Ewings begin fracking on the ranch. Early efforts cause tremors that by the last episode terminates in a hole yawning on that famous front pasture….before it widens to swallow the ranch house and all of its occupants. Only a pair of porcelain dogs remain ….perched perilously by the edge of the cavernous death pit…..

 

[Taylor Bennett Jr.]

an inexplicably pregnant Miss Ellie is gored by a runaway steer at the annual Ewing Rodeo. Cliff and Dusty and Ray all rush frantically to her aid. Which one is the father?

*becomes first forum member to be swallowed into the pit of eternal damnation under section 40 for Ewing-related blasphemy*

 

[Luke_Krebbs_Ewing]

an inexplicably pregnant Miss Ellie is gored by a runaway steer at the annual Ewing Rodeo. Cliff and Dusty and Ray all rush frantically to her aid. Which one is the father?

*becomes first forum member to be swallowed into the pit of eternal damnation under section 40 for Ewing-related blasphemy*

There's nothing blasphemous about Miss Ellie being pregnant with Wes Parmalee's baby.

 

[CeeCee72]

I would have changes the season eleven cliffhanger to mullet man falling to his death, Sue Ellen picking up the gun, JR rushing her, them struggling, shots fired, last frame is them collapsed together on the floor with blood everywhere.

 

[Snarky Oracle!]

I did want to learn, maybe in nuDALLAS, that Jeremy Wendell had been poisoning the Southfork aquifer since 1984; hance, the mis-Ellie switch, the dream resolution, Who's Pam?, the campy later seasons -- and even nuDALLAS itself, was just a weird, drug-induced hallucination. As soon as it's discovered and removed, the show gets better.

Y'know, like Krystle's brain gizmo on DYNASTY.

I'm not sure where Valene's fried crab diet fits into this on KNOTS, but I know it does.

Obviously, on FALCON CREST they were all just drunk. Jacqueline clearly spiked the punch bowl with Strontium-90, that bitch.

 

[Taylor Bennett Jr.]

I would have changes the season eleven cliffhanger to mullet man falling to his death, Sue Ellen picking up the gun, JR rushing her, them struggling, shots fired, last frame is them collapsed together on the floor with blood everywhere.

...or even... have JR and Sue Ellen struggle on the balcony and fall over together, embracing and very hurriedly declaring their eternal love for each other as they hurtle downward, with the freeze frame happening as they're about 10 feet away from splatting on the sidewalk

 

[Luke_Krebbs_Ewing]

Season 11. Wes Parmalee is found beaten to death and Clayton, JR, Bobby and Ray are implicated in his murder. They are put on trial. Miss Ellie finds proof Wes was Jock and her second husband and sons are responsible (in varying degrees) for his murder. Does she tell the jury of this finding or keep it to herself? Will Clayton, JR, Bobby and Ray go to prison? Cliff and Jeremy Wendell are eager to see Ewing Oil buried with a conviction. Cliff mocks the Ewings, especially JR for killing his daddy.

During the Trial Clayton has a heart attack and dies!

But then the unthinkable happens the real Wes Parmalee arrives at the court and under oath he reveals this is all a plot of Jeremy Wendell's!

Wendell collapses in court and is rushed to Dallas Memorial.

Wes reveals that he is in fact Jock Ewing and he stayed away in order to protect them from a scheme from Wendell who wanted to destroy Ewing Oil.

Miss Ellie and Jock reconcile. Meanwhile at the hospital as Jeremy Wendell gets ready to leave he is arrested for attempted murder and conspiracy to murder Wes Parmalee/Jock Ewing.