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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Miss Texas 1967" data-source="post: 167850" data-attributes="member: 36">I think the movies actually offer a decent amount of filler between the years. They aren't great by any means but it is nice to see the original cast back and they are written by writers who were there for the original show (Leonard Katzman and Arthur Bernard Lewis) so it's not completely non-canon. Regarding the questions I tend to think in relation to the movies because they do give some insight into the lives of the Ewings after the show and there's a little bit to grab onto.1. In the first movie Sue Ellen and John Ross are living in England but John Ross quickly lets it slip to JR that Sue Ellen and Don are basically no more. So I'd say that's about accurate. Don was fine I guess, his worst personality most certainly comes out in fanfic rather than what we got in the actual show. Post-Don there was little reason for Sue Ellen to be in England so I'd say she returned to Dallas soon after that.2. This is more of a TNT question about a plot I can't say I was that fond of to begin with so I'm not sure. I think Sue Ellen calmed and matured as she got older and out of love, compassion or even just curiosity yes she would have visited him. Was it not revealed at some point in the TNT show that JR was sort of faking his quiet depression? I thought I remembered a scene where he talks to John Ross like a normal person and says Bobby's an idiot or something. I haven't rewatched the show for a while and it shows lol3. Going back to the movies I think they ended in a way that sets up a future we can imagine without having to be shown. Bobby and Sue Ellen own Ewing Oil in one of the movies, then Bobby resigns from the oil business and sells his part back to Sue Ellen, meanwhile JR is working his way back into Sue Ellen's good books and it's not a stretch to imagine they would be working together soon enough. In the first movie Afton, Cliff and Pamela Rebecca are all shown as a sort of happy family and it's no secret who Pamela Rebecca is so if they counted the movies as canon at all the TNT show would be missing a big plot (I always thought it was dumb Christopher wouldn't recognise his cousin, it's not like he and Cliff weren't close ish and Cliff was hiding his daughter). It's not unrealistic to imagine the boys (John Ross and Christopher) would follow the plan set out for them either, ranching or oil, whatever they chose. I think the TNT show would have worked much better had they started with an established structure like the original did rather than having the adult characters acting like teenagers.</blockquote>

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