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<blockquote data-quote="Kenny Coyote" data-source="post: 198283" data-attributes="member: 102">I was just thinking, imagine if at the time Dallas was on the air, the internet had already been invented. Imagine how many members this board would have had then (circa seasons 3 and 4) and the immense amount of posting that would be going on here!As for another plotline that wouldn&#039;t have worked if there&#039;d been cell phones and internet is the one that took place in the time period when Jock was in South America and they rarely were able to get in contact with him because either they couldn&#039;t get a good connection, or he was in an area with no phones. If Jock had had a cell phone he could have been reached just about whenever they needed to talk to him. That could have changed quite a bit of what was going on at that time in Dallas. Ellie could have easily called Jock and discussed JR&#039;s strategy for getting John Ross back on Southfork: Buying up all the oil that was supposed to be sold to Clayton&#039;s refineries. Jock could have either said yes, support JR on that or said he was against it and let her do what she wanted to do - to have the oil JR was stockpiling sold to Clayton.It might have affected the decision to create that system of voting shares where every member of the family got some percentage of Ewing Oil and could vote for who they wanted to run Ewing Oil during Jock&#039;s absence. Having cellphones would have changed not just storylines, but one of the major features of the show - that phone at the bottom of the stairs that everyone in the family used and anyone calling any member of the family used. Someone would call JR, for instance, but Lucy or Sue Ellen would answer the phone and then tell JR he had a phone call. So Ewing family members were much more aware of who was calling whom than if they&#039;d each had their own cell phone.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kenny Coyote, post: 198283, member: 102"] I was just thinking, imagine if at the time Dallas was on the air, the internet had already been invented. Imagine how many members this board would have had then (circa seasons 3 and 4) and the immense amount of posting that would be going on here! As for another plotline that wouldn't have worked if there'd been cell phones and internet is the one that took place in the time period when Jock was in South America and they rarely were able to get in contact with him because either they couldn't get a good connection, or he was in an area with no phones. If Jock had had a cell phone he could have been reached just about whenever they needed to talk to him. That could have changed quite a bit of what was going on at that time in Dallas. Ellie could have easily called Jock and discussed JR's strategy for getting John Ross back on Southfork: Buying up all the oil that was supposed to be sold to Clayton's refineries. Jock could have either said yes, support JR on that or said he was against it and let her do what she wanted to do - to have the oil JR was stockpiling sold to Clayton. It might have affected the decision to create that system of voting shares where every member of the family got some percentage of Ewing Oil and could vote for who they wanted to run Ewing Oil during Jock's absence. Having cellphones would have changed not just storylines, but one of the major features of the show - that phone at the bottom of the stairs that everyone in the family used and anyone calling any member of the family used. Someone would call JR, for instance, but Lucy or Sue Ellen would answer the phone and then tell JR he had a phone call. So Ewing family members were much more aware of who was calling whom than if they'd each had their own cell phone. [/QUOTE]

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