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Actually, I don't wish to see Dallas back on air. It was a superb series but I'd much rather remember it the way it was.
As everyone knows, the show revolved around the life of an oil-rich family which included the wicked J.R. Ewing, Gary Ewing and Bobby Ewing. J.R.'s wife was Sue Ellen who caused him no end of problems during the series.
The show was realistic to begin with. Well, it was realistic in a TV kind of way. It had some great stories at times including the classic 1980 storyline-Who Shot J.R.? This was a good period in the show's history. However, a short while after that, things went downhill.
Everyone knows about the story where Bobby was killed but returned a season later and the viewers learnt that Bobby's wife Pamela had dream the past year's storylines. This was just a complete lack of credibility and it set a precedent for years to come both with American and British soaps. In Emmerdale in the late 90's, Kim Tate returned from the dead and no doubt a few more soap characters will return. If it happens and you feel cheated, blame Dallas.
However, we all kept watching it after this as the plots became more and more wacky. As for the final episode, it was just complete fantasy but interesting all the same.
All in all though, Dallas was a superb show. I felt cheated at the way Bobby returned from the dead but to be fair, Dallas gave us some entertaining moments and was the inspiration for future shows such as the even crazier Sunset Beach. Yes, Dallas was a good show and I think if they repeated the whole show on TV, I might just become glued to it again.
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Big Movie Fan 13 December 2002
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