Dallas To Get Remastered In HD

[Rove]

so it's not totally unrealistic that the Ewing's all lived in the one big house.

Looking back it's utter stupidity but this is what made Dallas so good. Those pre-dinner drinks, the catty barbs between Sue Ellen and Pam, JR annoying the hell out of someone...it just worked. But I have the theory the Ewing's lived like this because they constantly felt threatened by outsiders, due in part to Jock rough housing someone or JR's dirty dealings prior to 1978.

 

[Frank Underwood]

:danc::danc::danc::danc:
What about Donna (Reed)?? Will they insert BBG's face into her body?

They tried to, but the result was kind of shoddy.

 

[Mustard]

Looking back it's utter stupidity

I'm not sure it would be on a massive old school Texas ranch with sentimental attachment like Miss Ellie had. This is a long way away from the mentality of New York or California.

 

[Garry]

 

[Toni]

Can´t wait to see anything beyond Bobby´s "Good morning"...

 

[Rove]

I love the feisty Pam...get's my motor running.

 

[Luke_Krebbs_Ewing]

Proof that these two stars really were the heart and soul of Dallas and made it the hit series that it deserved to be. The series could survive with one of these two stars gone but couldn't with both of them gone!

Both JR and Pam are integral to the success of Dallas. Some fans would argue the show was never the same after Victoria Principal left and to a certain extent that's true but you really can't have Dallas without Larry Hagman which is partly why the TNT series failed.

Lovely to see them squaring off against each other. This is must watch TV and I love this show so much.

 

[bmasters9]

but you really can't have Dallas without Larry Hagman which is partly why the TNT series failed.

Quite true-- that's who we came to see, in a sense (he deserved every bit of the praise he got as "the man you love to hate," not only on CBS back in the day, but IINM, on TNT as well a decade ago).

 

[Rove]

Quite true-- that's who we came to see

Which baffles me to this day why Cynthia & Co. decided to ignore all that history and the main character we all wished to see. I suspect most viewers tuned into TNT Dallas to check up on good old JR. What had the manipulative bastard been up to after all these years. I get Dallas needed to move on with the next generation but we needed JR to be in the thick of it like the good old days, the wheeling and dealing, his very being infiltrating the story and characters.

Good grief even Esther Shapiro was watching because even she questioned, 'Where the hell is JR?"

 

[Section 40]

Cynthia had ZERO idea what made the series tick; instead of taking the time to go back through the enormous history of the show she invented new characters she could make into whatever she wanted (which was basically a retread of her short-lived Cane mess). Just sayin'.

 

[Seaviewer]

Cynthia had ZERO idea what made the series tick; instead of taking the time to go back through the enormous history of the show she invented new characters she could make into whatever she wanted (which was basically a retread of her short-lived Cane mess). Just sayin'.

I think there's some truth to that. I have no problem with new characters as such but I did get the feeling at times that she was trying to redeem Cane.

 

[Snarky Oracle!]

Cynthia had ZERO idea what made the series tick; instead of taking the time to go back through the enormous history of the show she invented new characters she could make into whatever she wanted (which was basically a retread of her short-lived Cane mess). Just sayin'.

I think there's some truth to that. I have no problem with new characters as such but I did get the feeling at times that she was trying to redeem Cane.

There's no problem with new characters, no, but Cidre didn't get the balance right -- or even try to. But these reboots are greenlighted by network executives over the "name value" of the original, never bothering to familiarize themselves with it, and then the project gets handed off to a producer who doesn't either.

Again, how could it work?

Generally, a lot of producers walk around with a show inside their head, and then try to apply that show on top of any pre-existing show they take over.

Plus, like Katzman with oldDALLAS, Cidre was interested in her own demographic (e.g., white men/hispanic women).

 

[Garry]

HD images from the Season 8 opening.

 

[Garry]

...

 

[Garry]

 

[Snarky Oracle!]

A little color regrading would have been nice. Caramico's work this season was bit too washed out.

This is better:

 

[Garry]

 

[Miss Texas 1967]

The muddy paddocks of Southfork in HD

 

[Taylor Bennett Jr.]

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the pool must have been a bit chilly that day..

 

[Seaviewer]

I don't know what scene it's taken from but I like that shot of Donna literally getting her back up.