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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Crimson" data-source="post: 266666" data-attributes="member: 5079"><p>There was a TV critic in the mid-80s who called the ladies of DALLAS "decorative and tangential", so it's a point that has been made almost as long as the show has been around.  Decorative is debatable; many of the ladies of DALLAS had strong, forceful personalities.  Tangential has more validity.  DALLAS was often more of a business drama than a true soap; the writers were more concerned with corporate battles than romantic entanglements.  Since the Ewing ladies -- Ellie, Lucy, Sue Ellen, Pam -- had little to nothing to do with Ewing Oil, this left them peripheral to many of the main stories.</p></blockquote><p></p>