Right off the bat, I have to
say that I thoroughly enjoyed this episode. The biggest highlight of this
episode for me personally would be all of the scenes featuring John Ross, who
spent the episode desperately trying to keep the Arctic lease deal alive by
scheming with various people throughout the course of the episode. His primary
strategy was to suggest to Christopher, Bobby, Pamela and Sue Ellen that they
take Ewing Global public. He originally got the idea from an old friend of his,
Hunter McKay, and Nicolas, who both told him that they became rich by
originally buying controlling interest in a company, so John Ross set out to do
the same thing. He thought that he had managed to get enough support from
Nicolas, Pamela and Sue Ellen, but when the time came to vote Sue Ellen voted
against taking the company public, so his plan ultimately failed.
If that wasn’t enough trouble
for John Ross to deal with, Sue Ellen continued to tell John Ross that he was
acting just like J.R. by cheating on Pamela with Emma and his secretary Candice,
but he made it clear to her that there was nothing going with Candice. Candice
did try to make a move on John Ross at one point in the episode though, but he
rejected her advances. Throughout the episode he repeatedly told Sue Ellen that
he’s not J.R., but personally his attempts to convince her that he’s not just
like J.R. were about as convincing as Jim Parsons’ attempt to convince
everybody that he’s not Sheldon when he was hosting Saturday Night Live, which
weren’t even the tiniest bit convincing. After all, in his opening monologue he
talked a lot about how he’s nothing like his character on The Big Bang Theory,
Sheldon Cooper. He even sang a song about how he’s not Sheldon, where the
lyrics consisted primarily of him singing “I’m not that guy” over and over,
only to act just like Sheldon in pretty much every sketch that he appeared in
throughout the episode. I’m now convinced that Jim Parsons is pretty much just
being himself when he’s playing Sheldon on The Big Bang Theory, which in my
mind shows that despite all of the awards that he’s either won or been
nominated for, he has a very limited range in terms of his acting ability. That
really makes me wonder what will happen with Jim Parsons’ acting career once
The Big Bang Theory eventually ends, but I digress.
Speaking of bad acting and
characters that annoy the hell out of me, while I’m willing to admit that for
the past several episodes Christopher hadn’t been annoying me nearly as much as
he did last season, he unfortunately found a whole new way to annoy the hell
out of me that didn’t even involve him talking or threatening to have someone
sent to jail in this episode. Towards the beginning of the episode, Bobby told
John Ross that he was giving his shares in Ewing Global to Christopher, because
now that he’s serving as the interim Texas railroad commissioner regulations dictate
that he can’t own any shares in a company. What made Christopher so annoying in
that scene is the way that he stood in the background with an incredibly
obnoxious smirk on his face the entire time Bobby was telling John Ross this.
