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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James from London" data-source="post: 344611" data-attributes="member: 22">And for me, the obviousness of those contrivances is a big part of what makes DALLAS, specifically this period of DALLAS,so incredibly irresistible. It's absolute trash ... with absolute class.Yeah, that's the one genuinely emotional, maybe even KNOTSian, moment of the season finale. It feels character-driven, but only inside this mad Ewingverse. Anywhere else, the idea of everyone crying because a fully grown millionaire has chosen to move out of his parents' house would be ridiculous, but here it matters and that's soap genius.Yes, it feels like one big game of chess, with the writers and/or JR manoeuvring the rest of characters into precisely the positions they need to be in at any one time.Yes yes yes.HA!God yes! I've always felt it but never quite been able to put it into words before: everyone thinks Sue Ellen has already started drinking again, but she hasn't. Then she does start drinking, but only because of a terrible tragedy she can't tell anyone about. So when Bobby, the conscience of the show at this point, finally does see her drunk, he doesn't realise she was telling the truth all along ... until she wasn't. It's soap irony at its frustratingly finest.</blockquote>