Dallas: "After the Fire" Promo (Promo for second half of Season 3)

Here's the "After the Fire" promo for the second half of season 3 of Dallas. It looks like the second half of the season is going to beyond awesome. :)

Dallas: Episode 2x10 "Guilt & Innocence" Promo (HD)

Here's a promo for next week's episode, episode 2x10 "Guilt & Innocence". It looks like this is going to be another very exciting episode. :)

Dallas: Clip from episode 2x08 "J.R.'s Masterpiece"

Here's a clip from next week's episode, episode 2x08 "J.R.'s Masterpiece".

Dallas: Revenge might be having a sophomore slump, but four episodes in; this show is soaring higher than ever before (My thoughts on episode 2x01 “Battle Lines” through episode 2x04 “False Confessions”)

Before Dallas premiered on TNT back in June of 2012, I found myself thinking that this show in combination with ABC’s Revenge would be able to quench my constant craving for nighttime soap operas, and together they both did during their first seasons. However, as many people, both TV critics and viewers, have been saying, Revenge is having a major sophomore slump both creatively and in the ratings department.

In the case of TNT’s Dallas, however, it’s been able to avoid suffering the dreaded sophomore slump on the creative end of things. It’s true the ratings are down this season, but I’ve read a lot of comments online from people who are saying that they believe that the ratings being down has more to do with the fact that this season is airing during the regular TV season, meaning it has more competition to deal with from broadcast networks, whereas the first season aired during the summer with less competition. Brenda Strong addressed this in a recent interview that I read, and it sounds like TNT wants to branch out and start airing more shows during the regular season. According to her, it sounds like TNT is hoping to have Dallas pioneer that effort and expected the ratings for the second season to be lower since it’s airing during the regular TV season. Since she said that, I’m not too terribly worried for the time being that the show won’t be renewed for a third season. Perhaps they will renew it for a third season and simply decide to only air the show during the summer in future, but I’m not sure what the TNT network executives are thinking about the show’s ratings though.

As much as I loved the first season, I have to say that I think the second season has been even better in a lot of ways so far. For starters, none of the episodes have felt like filler episodes so far, which is always a good thing for TV shows if you ask me. There also isn’t the repetitive back and forth scheming regarding the future of Southfork like there was last season where John Ross and J.R. would have the upper hand one episode, and then Christopher and Bobby would have the upper hand the following episode, which often made me feel like the storyline wasn’t moving forward all that much. That was the main thing that made several of the season one episodes felt like filler to me. When it comes to season two, however, each episode has felt like it’s progressing the storylines and have all been full of excitement so far. Season two has also featured several very interesting storyline developments. My favorite storyline development would be the fact that John Ross and Pamela/Rebecca, have formed a business agreement as a part of a plan to get some of Christopher’s shares in Ewing Energy shares and have also become romantically involved with each other in the process, which I’ll talk about some more in a moment.

Dallas (TNT Series): Strap yourselves in, everybody, because you’re in for one wild ride (My thoughts on season 1)

With the season two premiere of TNT’s Dallas quickly approaching, I decided to write a review of the show’s first season as a whole, so I went back and watched season one two times. In this post I’m going to talk about the season one episodes, as well as each of the characters and the character development they went through throughout the season. Let me begin by saying that this is a biased prospective that’s based solely on the TNT series since I’ve only seen the first episode of the original series. I’m not looking to get into any kind of pissing match with other fans of the show, especially fans of the original series since I’m sure a few of my opinions regarding the character Bobby won’t be very popular with some of them. That being said here are my thoughts on season one.

I have to say that I think the show got off to a very good start right from the very beginning. I loved the first two episodes of the series that made up the two-hour series premiere event. Dallas definitely started off in a very shocking manner with Bobby finding out that he had stomach cancer. I always think that it’s important for TV shows to get off to a grand start, and the scene at the beginning of the episode where Bobby finds out that he has cancer definitely helped the show do that.

That being said, I did find the whole thing with Bobby having stomach cancer to be relatively pointless as the season continued. Aside from Bobby being diagnosed with stomach cancer being the motivation for him wanting to sell the Southfork ranch, Bobby having cancer didn’t really add much to the show. For example, aside from the doctor telling Bobby about oral chemo therapy pills that he could take to treat the cancer, having him double over in pain numerous times throughout the first episode and telling Ann how his cancer diagnosis was one of the reasons why he wanted to sell Southfork, they didn’t really do anything too significant with Bobby’s cancer storyline until episode 1x09 “Family Business”. The writers definitely could have done a lot more with that storyline than they did, and in the end that storyline just came across as being wasted potential in my opinion.

What I have to say next is one of the things that I’m guessing some fans will have a problem with, but as the season continued I found myself hating Bobby more and more to the point where I was hoping that he would die of complications from the cancer. Only this time, the writers wouldn’t miraculously bring Bobby back from the dead by having the whole storyline be a dream like the writers of the original series did with season nine, A.K.A. “The Dream Season”. The main reason why I hate the character Bobby so much is because I feel like he’s just so self-righteous and arrogant, which led me to be happy whenever J.R. and John Ross managed to one-up him, even if it was only momentarily before Bobby once again got the upper hand. Bobby also almost always seemed to be angry about something, and both the character and the way that Patrick Duffy played the part simply came across as being two intense for my taste most of the time. If Patrick Duffy were to decide to leave the series at some point, I honestly wouldn’t miss him one bit, because Bobby is definitely my least favorite character on the show. Although, considering the fact that he’s one of the characters that serves as a link to the original series, I don’t think that’s going to happen any time soon, especially considering the fact that Larry Hagman just recently passed away.