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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Werewillie Oleson" data-source="post: 344667" data-attributes="member: 8">I wish I've had the time to review the episodes individually but like I said it was unstopwatchable. Also, I'd like to stick to my Thrillie TV schedule:  a disc of Dallas, a disc of Batman, 10 episodes of Dark Shadows and 2 episodes of NuDoctor Who (although I'm still in the early revival years). It's quite a line-up that will guarantee plenty of variety - like it used to be when we watched our stories on TV.The Ewings are such a funny family and perhaps that explains my emotional connection between DALLAS and THE COLBYS as opposed to THE COLBYS & DYNASTY.Those post-dinner family gatherings in the living room can be quite transcendental sometimes.It's as if they're performing a play for Jock and Miss Ellie to enjoy, and only when things get seriously out of hand they tell them to stop it. But not before everyone has had the opportunity to share their venom and accusations with the rest of the family.At some point they're even discussing JR's plan to gaslight Sue Ellen but since that actually was  the storyline it seems bizarre that they know as much as the viewer - and then, to "top" it off, address the issue en plein public.Things like this predates the famous Battle For Ewing Oil, that script-heavy plotline that spills over into the on-screen dialogue.My favourite scene-to-over-analyze is when Jock asks JR if he knew about the upcoming revolution and the nationalization of foreign companies.On the surface it's about JRs cold-blooded lie, but was confessing really an option here? And more importantly, didn't all three men realize this?I'm not sure if Jock was interested in the truth and to be honest I don't think he believed JRs denial. I wonder if it was more like a test, to see how convincing JRs lie would be. After all, if he could lie to his own father without even blinking it means he could lie to everybody - and stick with it.That way, Ewing Oil (and by extension, Jock himself) would not be disgraced, or worse.Similarly, it made me wonder what part of mortgaging Southfork caused Jock's disapproval. Was it the mortgage itself, as it appeared in those scenes, or the fact that JR hadn't been careful enough to make sure that no one and his especially his mother would never find out?A oil man's gotta do what an oil man's gotta do, but keep the upheaval out of the kitchen. Or something like that.Sometimes I sense a faux self-righteousness similar to Angela Channing. Angela would order Lance or someone else to "fix" the Giobertis, and failure was not an option, but whenever they crossed the line she would hide behind a faux-morality. "But I never told you to do that !"I wonder if Jock performs a similar "clean hands" attitude in front of Miss Ellie, but secretly trying to teach JR how to get away with murder, the way JR wanted to teach John Ross in TNT DALLAS.And it's in this particular scene that Bobby realizes that his father is in the wrong kind of right. JR lied, they all knew it, and Jock pretended to accept it for the sake of his precious Ewing Oil.I find it rather typical that when Bobby does accept the wrong kind or right for the sake of Ewing Global, courtesy of JR's scheme from the grave, it's not him  leaving Southfork. [ATTACH=full]41536[/ATTACH]That oh-so precious character development is great, but they should never learn too much from their or someone else's mistakes. It helps to keep the soap going on and on and on (unless it's brutally and totally unjustifiably cancelled).</blockquote>

Verification: Who played Sue Ellen in Dallas?