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<blockquote data-quote="Kenny Coyote" data-source="post: 179031" data-attributes="member: 102">There&#039;s isn&#039;t anything that happened in Dallas which wasn&#039;t done for dramatic purposes.Which again, was done for dramatic purposes.&nbsp; Practically every deal JR made put all of Ewing Oil at risk to go out of business. Power hungry or not, that&#039;s a ridiculous thing to do, but it sure makes it fun fun for us to watch..Ewing Oil wasn&#039;t exactly destroyed. Bobby ended up selling Ewing Oil for a whole lot of money. Bobby lost his desire to run the company. Anyone could have predicted he&#039;d eventually quit. In fact, Bobby quit the oil business entirely.Nice post, Taylor!&nbsp; I agree with you on it being the writers&#039; desire to have Bobby as the man who could do anything he put his mind to, get better at it than anyone else, and always manage to save the day. It&#039;s a nice role for an actor to get. You get to look like you&#039;re Superman.Naturally, Bobby didn&#039;t have to spend his whole life learning the oil business to still become one of the best. He went into politics with about 15 minutes of preparation and won the election.I don&#039;t usually think of Dallas in the terms you described, but now that you bring it up, it&#039;s a little unbelievable isn&#039;t it?&nbsp; That brings up the question: &quot;How did we enjoy a show as unbelievable as you&#039;ve described&quot;?We do it by willing suspending our own disbelief. While we&#039;re watching it, we buy into the concept of what this show is about and accept the premises upon which this whole genre of shows is based. We either do that, we accept it for what it is, or we don&#039;t watch it. It&#039;s a choice.We don&#039;t require proof that JR is a great oilman; we take the word of the other characters who describe him as &quot;one of the best oilmen in the state.&quot; We know he&#039;s a great oilman because of the way the other top oilmen in the industry regard him and the way they react to him. When Jeremy Wendell says JR may be the only competitor he&#039;s ever considered a threat, that&#039;s all we need. In soap, that is the ultimate validation that JR is just that damn good. It&#039;s high praise from a man who never gives it to anyone else. It&#039;s the greatest compliment anyone could get from the man who owns the biggest oil company in the state, a man who, as he describes himself, &quot;has no chinks in his armor.&quot;We accept the premise that these ridiculous, completely unrealistic things happen. We temporarily suspend our own disbelief as we watch and we do it because if we do that, it&#039;s one hell of a lot of fun!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kenny Coyote, post: 179031, member: 102"] There's isn't anything that happened in Dallas which wasn't done for dramatic purposes. Which again, was done for dramatic purposes. Practically every deal JR made put all of Ewing Oil at risk to go out of business. Power hungry or not, that's a ridiculous thing to do, but it sure makes it fun fun for us to watch.. Ewing Oil wasn't exactly destroyed. Bobby ended up selling Ewing Oil for a whole lot of money. Bobby lost his desire to run the company. Anyone could have predicted he'd eventually quit. In fact, Bobby quit the oil business entirely. Nice post, Taylor! I agree with you on it being the writers' desire to have Bobby as the man who could do anything he put his mind to, get better at it than anyone else, and always manage to save the day. It's a nice role for an actor to get. You get to look like you're Superman. Naturally, Bobby didn't have to spend his whole life learning the oil business to still become one of the best. He went into politics with about 15 minutes of preparation and won the election. I don't usually think of Dallas in the terms you described, but now that you bring it up, it's a little unbelievable isn't it? That brings up the question: "How did we enjoy a show as unbelievable as you've described"? We do it by willing suspending our own disbelief. While we're watching it, we buy into the concept of what this show is about and accept the premises upon which this whole genre of shows is based. We either do that, we accept it for what it is, or we don't watch it. It's a choice. We don't require proof that JR is a great oilman; we take the word of the other characters who describe him as "one of the best oilmen in the state." We know he's a great oilman because of the way the other top oilmen in the industry regard him and the way they react to him. When Jeremy Wendell says JR may be the only competitor he's ever considered a threat, that's all we need. In soap, that is the ultimate validation that JR is just that damn good. It's high praise from a man who never gives it to anyone else. It's the greatest compliment anyone could get from the man who owns the biggest oil company in the state, a man who, as he describes himself, "has no chinks in his armor." We accept the premise that these ridiculous, completely unrealistic things happen. We temporarily suspend our own disbelief as we watch and we do it because if we do that, it's one hell of a lot of fun! [/QUOTE]

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