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Dallas - The Original Series
Rewatching Dallas with a newbie
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<blockquote data-quote="Snarky Oracle!" data-source="post: 340394" data-attributes="member: 57984"><p>The whole "who-is-the-bigger-bugaboo?" issue gets a little tricky for a fictional show like DALLAS. We're later supposed to believe that the Ewings are terrified in a very bourgeois way of a mobster after his son is killed, but in the <em><strong>real </strong></em>power pecking order, mafia dons would do what powerful oil companies told <strong><em>them </em></strong>to do, not vice versa.</p><p></p><p>The CIA has been called the mafia for the superrich. So if they wanted the BD Calhoun story buried when the Justice Department (and Weststar) wanted to enflame it, who knows who would be victorious in that powerplay? Which is really the more interesting question, and not one they spent much time on.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Snarky Oracle!, post: 340394, member: 57984"] The whole "who-is-the-bigger-bugaboo?" issue gets a little tricky for a fictional show like DALLAS. We're later supposed to believe that the Ewings are terrified in a very bourgeois way of a mobster after his son is killed, but in the [I][B]real [/B][/I]power pecking order, mafia dons would do what powerful oil companies told [B][I]them [/I][/B]to do, not vice versa. The CIA has been called the mafia for the superrich. So if they wanted the BD Calhoun story buried when the Justice Department (and Weststar) wanted to enflame it, who knows who would be victorious in that powerplay? Which is really the more interesting question, and not one they spent much time on. [/QUOTE]
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