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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Snarky Oracle!" data-source="post: 372814" data-attributes="member: 57984">I remember being bowled over by the scene between Bobby and JR in the charred living room which closed the first quarter of the first episode of the Season 7 (per DVD count), "The Road Back". It seemed so majestic and haunted and profound -- helped not in small part to Bradford May's new breathtaking camerawork (which, of course, Katzman hated). Right in the midst of DALLAS' most creatively mature year, 1983.The story of the Ewings of Southfork had reached a noble apex.Looking back on it later, it's not so distinctive a scene comparatively. But it shows how impactful cinematography (assisted by good story structure) can be to establishing mood and an almost Biblical flavor, where even the silences -- especially the silences -- seem somehow loud. <img src="https://dallasdecoder.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/critique-dallas-episode-132-the-road-back-1.jpg?w=600&h=456" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />This one is not such a small scene, but it's one of my favorites in that it has most of the key characters fussing together in the living room over the terms of Jock's will -- and it's one of the first scenes I think of when people ask (I couldn't find the most recent thread in that capacity) which DALLAS scenes are most emblematic, or should be used in a promotion, for the show (and folks always chirp in "Who Shot JR?" with little sense of the tired over-obviousness of that choice). [MEDIA=youtube]9bB7o9WkLas[/MEDIA]</blockquote>

Verification: Who played JR Ewing?