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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Snarky Oracle!" data-source="post: 369656" data-attributes="member: 57984">I sometimes wonder how DALLAS would have fared had the Ewings retained their collective slime factor as Jacobs had originally conceived them in the 1978 mini-series (and KNOTS still so described them permanently). Where even Miss "I don't care if it's fair!" Ellie was a little bit of a rat.Pretty soon, the Ewings just became nice people, as expected by audiences and executives at the time, and the guilty sins all osmositized over to ol' J.R., as if he were some strange anthraxian virus Ray brought in on his boot from the Texas prairie. So when anybody mentioned how awful the Ewings were, you sort of wondered what they were talking about. Just assuming they're referring to JR's latest plot, Sue Ellen's latest cocktail, Jock's ancient scheme Donna just located in a diary in somebody's attic, or the family's impulse to look away and ignore the corruption (although they mostly didn't).</blockquote>