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Karin

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Staff Member
Thank you for all your work on compiling the storylines Ome. :)

Yikes this is not an easy one either as I love most of the characters. But the one that annoyed me the most is on top of my list:

1. Mark Graison (that moustache and stealing Pam away from Bobby!)
2. Rose McKay (She was so mismatched with Mack and trashy)
3. Laurel Ellis (Clayton being smitten with her was so annoying)
4. Jeannie O'Brien (bad Pam replacement, the storyline where Bobby ran after her was so stupid!)
5. Tommy McKay (he was a bad boy that did drugs and beat up on women)
6. Mrs. Scotfield (she made them lose Ewing Oil)
7. Carter McKay (his face went all red when he was upset it made me laugh rather than feel bad for him)
8. Holly Harwood (I hated how she ruined JR & Sue Ellen's marriage for the second time and drove Sue Ellen back to the bottle. It killed Mickey!)
9. Andrew Dowling (How could Donna leave Ray for him?)
10. Peter Richards (He was cute but a total mismatch for Sue Ellen!)
 
Victoriafan3

Victoriafan3

Telly Talk Addict
I really only watched til VP left so the last five spaces you can make up the last five places from the last four seasons. I'm quite sure Michelle, mckays, etc would be on the tail end of this list

The five that make zone out and reach for the fast forward button every time I watch are

1. April
2. Charlie
3. Jenna
4. Alex Ward
5. Leslie Stewart

Great poll!! Thank you for making it :)
 
K

Karin

Moderator
Staff Member
No @Sarah but I loved that plot. I saw it when I was like 12 and had never travelled outside of Scandinavia myself so I found the places they visited to be exotic and watching them visiting Austria and Russia made me wanna go there too!

Besides you have to agree that Bobby & April getting together on the Austria trip was romantic? ;)
I loved that part of the plot.
 
Sarah

Sarah

Moderator Emerita
My least favourite characters:

1. Mandy Winger
2. Holly Harwood
3. Vanessa Beaumont
4. James Beaumont
5. Afton Cooper (biggest hypocrite on the show)
6. Michelle Stevens
7. Rose McKay
8. Tommy McKay
9. Julie Grey
10. Leslie Stewart
 
Sarah

Sarah

Moderator Emerita
Karin Schill said:
No @Sarah but I loved that plot. I saw it when I was like 12 and had never travelled outside of Scandinavia myself so I found the places they visited to be exotic and watching them visiting Austria and Russia made me wanna go there too!

Besides you have to agree that Bobby & April getting together on the Austria trip was romantic? ;)
I loved that part of the plot.
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Wow, you liked scenes without Sue Ellen and Pam and the core cast... (and rather than Mastectomy etc) in favour of JR and Bobby jaunting around Europe?! Wow....!

I have to agree Bobby and April are romantic and much prefer them to Bobby and Pam but Cally...never mind Vanessa and no Sue Ellen, John Ross, Miss Ellie.....just took me aback! lol I have also wanted to go to Russia for a long time too. But it wasn't that storyline that made me want to go believe me! lol It's just a real different opinion for a Dallas fan to prefer THAT storyline over any of the others. Interesting!
 
Angela Channing

Angela Channing

Telly Talk Veteran
1. Charlie Wade
2. Jenna Wade
3. Jory Taylor
4. Cally Harper
5. Laurel Ellis
6. Sheila Foley/Hillary Taylor
7. Tracey Lawton
8. Stephanie Rogers
9. Don Lockwood
10. Rose McKay
 
Mel O'Drama

Mel O'Drama

Admin
I don't believe my #1 choice actually appeared on the show. But I hope you'll get where I'm going with it.

As for the others, I tried to mostly go for generally useless characters, but also included a few that just plain irritate me.

  1. Dimitri Marinos
  2. Jeanne O’Brien
  3. Laurel Ellis
  4. Aunt Lil Trotter
  5. Matt Cantrell
  6. Holly Harwood
  7. Tracy Lawton
  8. Louella Caraway
  9. Kendall Chapman
  10. Arliss Cooper
 
Kenny Coyote

Kenny Coyote

Telly Talk Star
I find this particular poll to be in poor taste, but OK, I will answer as best I can. This is not a list of characters who I hated because they were good at playing bad people; it's a list of people who make me want to fast forward through their scenes!

1. James Beaumont

2. Michelle Stevens - adding insult to injury they gave her and James on this list ridiculous amount s of TV time! Michelle was the anti-April! I liked April a lot.

3. Dusty Farlow - a ridiculous child of a man who refused to grow up and take any responsibility - He just wanted to "play rodeo" and if he ever needed some money which comes from actual productive he'd tell Clayton "pay Sue Ellen's bail", "hire the best lawyers for her so she can get a good divorce settlement from JR", etc. What a spoiled brat!

4. Peter Richards - what an absolutely gross storyline for Sue Ellen to be involved in. I found this quite out of character for Dallas, especially since it was in the prime years of Dallas. The only part of the storyline that's entertaining besides of course JR setting up Peter and getting Sue Ellen back where she belonged was when some kids called Sue Ellen "Mrs Richards" as in Peter's mother! That was funny.

5. Alex - Cally's art friends - he was such a disgusting parasite to ask for poor naive Cally for 40% of the revenue of each sale! A real estate agent gets maybe 6%.

6. Leeann Della Vega - part of possibly the dumbest business related storyline ever on Dallas. Usually the business storylines were pretty good, but why would she sell Ewing Oil for such a tiny amount? Nobody would do that. And what as her purpose? Nobody wanted to see a dumb whore like her become owner of Ewing Oil and the thought of Bobby betraying his father's wishes (Ewing Oil must never be owned by a non-Ewing) made a bad story even worse. Sure he had them change the name, but whatever you call it, the company that Jock founded and that the family worked to build for over 40 years was Ewing Oil no matter what the legal name might be.

7. Leslie (Stewart?) - The white haired PR woman - she dripped with insincerity

8. Stephanie Rogers - A grotesque hag who seemed to want to be a man

9. Jessica Montfort - Poor idea and poor execution

10. That gross Puerto Rican man who tried to extort 10 million dollars from JR. Even the Cuban man wasn't as awful and they're communists!
 
Kenny Coyote

Kenny Coyote

Telly Talk Star
Barbara Fan said:
Im not even going to name you anyone new from the final series as they are obliterated from my Dallas memories, i dont remember, i dont recall and i dont care as they sucked

the majority will come from the final seasons as they were the worst IMHO, S1 - 6 original Dallas had a great cast /supporting cast

Mr valenetine - like who cared about that storyline - not me
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Good choice who almost made my list. He had an obnoxious voice and personality and the storyline was particularly dumb. Sue Ellen though she was some kind of business genius because Valentine Lingerie grew tremendously after she hired Mandy Winger to be the face of their company. How could they have failed with Mandy doing the lingerie modeling?!?! It reminds me of a saying that went something like this: If you got rich because one day you happened to accidentally fall into a river that was filled with gold, you could hardly consider yourself a financial genius!
 
Ome

Ome

Admin Emeritus
1. Mitch Cooper – I found him highly annoying, especially when it involved money.
2. Mark Graison – An odd one because he annoyed me for been too good to be true.
3. Tommy Mckay – I loathe characters that take drugs.
4. Jeannie O'Brien – Grasping at straws with this Pam look-a-like.
5. Charlie Wade – Just the moaning was enough to make me roll my eyes when she was on the screen.
6. Leslie Stewart – I never took to her character or the story.
7. Vanessa Beaumont – I didn’t particular find her back story convincing.
8. Laurel Ellis – I simply found her boring.
9. Don Lockwood – I can’t even remember why I didn’t like him, but I know I didn’t.
10. Andrew Dowling – Another character (like Laurel) that had zero chemistry with the screen.
 
Ome

Ome

Admin Emeritus
Kenny Coyote said:
I guess I just don't like trashing parts of my favorite TV show,
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Ah - I get where you're coming from.

I think we all have our favourite TV/Movies/Music, and just touching on the music angle, I can easily name quite a few songs I don't like by artists that I consider to be great at what they do.

But it's all subjective in a way that could easily change my top or bottom ten in anything - I guess it depends on the mood at the time of watching/listening.
 
Kenny Coyote

Kenny Coyote

Telly Talk Star
Ome said:
My only concern (and I can't do anything about it) is if the majority go for characters from the last three seasons.
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But don't the characters from the last 3 seasons (especially James and Michelle) deserve it the most? Most of the characters during the prime years were pretty good!
 
Ome

Ome

Admin Emeritus
Thinking about that comment I made, I was hoping that some people wouldn't find them an easy target and go for some characters they liked the least from the early years too.
 
Presea

Presea

Telly Talk Addict
I'm not entirely sure about the order, but here I go: 1. Gil Thurman- One incredibly ugly, creepy pervert. I refer to him as "the troll". 2. Naldo Marchetta- Loser of all losers. His voice was unbearable to listen to, and he was also a rapist and a kidnapper. I was quite glad when Katherine got her hitman to take this guy off of my TV screen. 3. Tommy Mckay- The guy was a substance abuser who liked to abuse women. Need I say more? 4. Clint Ogden- Zzzzz. 6. Nancy Scottfield- Always whining and complaining. Plus, she cost them Ewing Oil. 7. Charlie Wade- Annoying little brat with an even more annoying voice. 8. Patricia Sheppard- Stupid money-grubbing old lady who was responsible for her daughters turning out to be so messed up. Also had an annoying voice. 9. Rebecca Wentworth- Yet another craptacular mother! Abandoned Pam and Cliff and then turned around and suddenly wanted to be their pals when her husband kicked the bucket! Then proceeded to forget about Katherine and even Pam, and then rips off Katherine in her will! 10. Bobby Ewing- Self-righteous jerk with an anger problem who loved to charm people (especially women) with his goody-two shoes routine, even though he was also a hypocrite a lot of the time.
 
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