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Oh wow!! Ur giving me goosebumps now talking about putting this on pay per view back then. I’m thinking of those early days of pay per view and I’m envisioning them carrying Dallas and I’m getting nostalgic.
What are some possible twists and turns that could have shaped the plot lines of Dallas from as we know it?
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That could be really creepy. They could insert several evil laboratory scenes from each show demonstrating the conversion into the Evil Fake Bobby ... and maybe some screwups where they botched something and had to find a way to undo it. It could actually be a big part of the show building the tension for the day when he is just about ready to launch, only maybe his voice was like Lurch on the adams Family, so they had to fix that with an electronic implant which never quite worked right and freaked Pam out a few times almost blowing his cover in certain scenes. Yes, this was a good idea, too bad they didn't do it. Anything beats the dream season!!
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I always wanted Pam's decision in Season 8 (per DVD count) to finally join her brother's fight against Ewing Oil to, in some way, had an inadvertent role in Katherine's successful plowing down Bobby in the driveway.
I'm not sure how or what, but I'd leave that to Paulsen to figure out...
That way, Pam's grief could be peppered with even more guilt.
After Pam's crash, I'd like to find out during Season 11 (per DVD count) that she'd careened into a truck doing illegal oil business in the badlands for JR -- something JR spends most of the year desperate to hide from Bobby; once Bobby discovers this fact, he then has to table his own grief and rage over the role JR accidentally played in Pam's fate to protect the family and the remnants of the family business.
During the range war of Season 12, I want Ellie's bizarre refusal to bring in the authorities tied (as Clayton comes to suspect) to "something" buried out there under Section 40 very close to where the range war is occurring.
I want to find out that Jeremy Wendell faked his own arrest and is still in power.
In Season 13 (per DVD count) I'd like Jessica's murder spree to be handled far less campily, and not focus on Clayton's business pals but the Dallas cartel, all of whom she'd slept with in the '40s and '50s and whom she'd been blackmailing over Dusty's parentage. (Someone here helped with that suggestion)... David Jacobs also offered up the idea (back when a DALLAS movie seemed on the horizon) that Miss Ellie could have her own local TV talk show -- I think that would be ideal for the 89/90 season, where JR and his mama appear on The Roy Ralston Show to gin up some good PR in the wake of the tanker oil-spill scandal; Miss Ellie is a hit, makes another couple of appearances (one even without JR!) and JR is thrilled with how it's all going. Later, when Ralston's talk show goes national (finally!) the local station offers Miss Ellie a show in Royston's old time slot... Clayton is wary on instinct, but Ellie accepts the offer, enchanting the viewers with her recipes and homespun humor -- but JR's encouragement disappears when Ellie brings her liberal pro-environmental politics to the show, incurring the wrath of, and rejection by, the cartel (who are also stressed by their sequential execution by Ellie's sister-in-law, Jessica.
So now JR has to find a way to stop Miss Ellie's media carnival, despite sky-high local ratings.
At the end of Season 14 (per DVD count) in 1991, Miss Ellie takes the family out on horseback to show them some things out on Section 40 when she's thrown from her horse and succumbs to her injuries.
There would be a Season 15 (the 91/92 year) when Ellie's will is opened... Bobby and Cliff discover Pam might be dead, possibly of neurofibromatosis (meaning she was Digger's daughter all along!) The family allows Section 40 to be opened for pumping once again, although some of the Ewing wives (Donna, who's back in town, a political widow for a second time; Sue Ellen, who's helped buy-back a much-weakened Ewing Oil but spitefully placed Cliff in as CEO; April is long dead in hell) don't think it's wise to go against Ellie's drilling wishes. Out on the platform, the structure gives way as the family hangs on for dear life, eventually collapsing into a darkened hell-hole where April already is.
Who lives? Who dies? Who knows??
I'm not sure how or what, but I'd leave that to Paulsen to figure out...
That way, Pam's grief could be peppered with even more guilt.
After Pam's crash, I'd like to find out during Season 11 (per DVD count) that she'd careened into a truck doing illegal oil business in the badlands for JR -- something JR spends most of the year desperate to hide from Bobby; once Bobby discovers this fact, he then has to table his own grief and rage over the role JR accidentally played in Pam's fate to protect the family and the remnants of the family business.
During the range war of Season 12, I want Ellie's bizarre refusal to bring in the authorities tied (as Clayton comes to suspect) to "something" buried out there under Section 40 very close to where the range war is occurring.
I want to find out that Jeremy Wendell faked his own arrest and is still in power.
In Season 13 (per DVD count) I'd like Jessica's murder spree to be handled far less campily, and not focus on Clayton's business pals but the Dallas cartel, all of whom she'd slept with in the '40s and '50s and whom she'd been blackmailing over Dusty's parentage. (Someone here helped with that suggestion)... David Jacobs also offered up the idea (back when a DALLAS movie seemed on the horizon) that Miss Ellie could have her own local TV talk show -- I think that would be ideal for the 89/90 season, where JR and his mama appear on The Roy Ralston Show to gin up some good PR in the wake of the tanker oil-spill scandal; Miss Ellie is a hit, makes another couple of appearances (one even without JR!) and JR is thrilled with how it's all going. Later, when Ralston's talk show goes national (finally!) the local station offers Miss Ellie a show in Royston's old time slot... Clayton is wary on instinct, but Ellie accepts the offer, enchanting the viewers with her recipes and homespun humor -- but JR's encouragement disappears when Ellie brings her liberal pro-environmental politics to the show, incurring the wrath of, and rejection by, the cartel (who are also stressed by their sequential execution by Ellie's sister-in-law, Jessica.
So now JR has to find a way to stop Miss Ellie's media carnival, despite sky-high local ratings.
At the end of Season 14 (per DVD count) in 1991, Miss Ellie takes the family out on horseback to show them some things out on Section 40 when she's thrown from her horse and succumbs to her injuries.
There would be a Season 15 (the 91/92 year) when Ellie's will is opened... Bobby and Cliff discover Pam might be dead, possibly of neurofibromatosis (meaning she was Digger's daughter all along!) The family allows Section 40 to be opened for pumping once again, although some of the Ewing wives (Donna, who's back in town, a political widow for a second time; Sue Ellen, who's helped buy-back a much-weakened Ewing Oil but spitefully placed Cliff in as CEO; April is long dead in hell) don't think it's wise to go against Ellie's drilling wishes. Out on the platform, the structure gives way as the family hangs on for dear life, eventually collapsing into a darkened hell-hole where April already is.
Who lives? Who dies? Who knows??
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