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<blockquote data-quote="Kenny Coyote" data-source="post: 182419" data-attributes="member: 102">It could work if written well and done the right way. It would have to have its own unique style compared to Dallas. This drama would not be a soap opera. I&#039;d want it to be the opposite of Dallas in this way: It would be about a man finding a way to ethically build his own oil business amidst the corruption amidst the rest of the industry. It would be an inspiring story of a man who refuses to allow the ethics then prevalent within an industry to define or defile his own ethics.Dallas hinted at this possibility during the time when Bobby filled in for JR while JR was recuperating from his gunshot injuries. The difference there was Bobby was being portrayed as a man who accepted an opportunity to do that until JR recuperated, but when JR did recuperate, Bobby reneged on his original agreement. He tried to use Miss Ellie&#039;s fear of &quot;losing another son&quot; as a way of emotionally extorting Jock by saying he and Pam would move away to California if Jock didn&#039;t allow him to steal JR&#039;s job. Bobby knew Jock would let him keep the job that wasn&#039;t rightfully his, just to keep Ellie happy, because she was in an emotionally vulnerable state at the time.This would have to be a story about who doesn&#039;t rely on those tactics, a man who would rather build his own company so he could run it according to his own principles with nobody else having the right to tell him he couldn&#039;t. Bobby would find imaginative ways of dealing with his less ethical competitors, which&nbsp; would require a lot of intelligence and ingenuity. Eventually people would choose to deal with him because they&#039;d know his word is good.As opposed to being a show where the audience roots for the bad guy, or a show that portrays a good man being brought down to the level of his competitors, it would be a show where the audience pulls for the protagonist because he is good, because he is able to survive and then flourish in a corrupt industry without compromising his standards, because he is just that much better, that much more capable and competent than his competitors, and because people would rather deal with a man they can trust than with men they can&#039;t trust.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kenny Coyote, post: 182419, member: 102"] It could work if written well and done the right way. It would have to have its own unique style compared to Dallas. This drama would not be a soap opera. I'd want it to be the opposite of Dallas in this way: It would be about a man finding a way to ethically build his own oil business amidst the corruption amidst the rest of the industry. It would be an inspiring story of a man who refuses to allow the ethics then prevalent within an industry to define or defile his own ethics. Dallas hinted at this possibility during the time when Bobby filled in for JR while JR was recuperating from his gunshot injuries. The difference there was Bobby was being portrayed as a man who accepted an opportunity to do that until JR recuperated, but when JR did recuperate, Bobby reneged on his original agreement. He tried to use Miss Ellie's fear of "losing another son" as a way of emotionally extorting Jock by saying he and Pam would move away to California if Jock didn't allow him to steal JR's job. Bobby knew Jock would let him keep the job that wasn't rightfully his, just to keep Ellie happy, because she was in an emotionally vulnerable state at the time. This would have to be a story about who doesn't rely on those tactics, a man who would rather build his own company so he could run it according to his own principles with nobody else having the right to tell him he couldn't. Bobby would find imaginative ways of dealing with his less ethical competitors, which would require a lot of intelligence and ingenuity. Eventually people would choose to deal with him because they'd know his word is good. As opposed to being a show where the audience roots for the bad guy, or a show that portrays a good man being brought down to the level of his competitors, it would be a show where the audience pulls for the protagonist because he is good, because he is able to survive and then flourish in a corrupt industry without compromising his standards, because he is just that much better, that much more capable and competent than his competitors, and because people would rather deal with a man they can trust than with men they can't trust. [/QUOTE]

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