Ugh. 
Sigh, they can’t even just fight over Texas oil, cattle, and greed anymore, now they fight over “alternate energy”.
I just caught a few minutes of the Turner Network Television (TNT) reboot of the 70’s TV primetime drama “DALLAS”, and the Ewings aren’t fighting over oil, no they are fighting because Bobby wants to sell Southfork Ranch to the TV equivalent of The Nature Conservancy to keep oil drilling from happening on it and the Ewing kids are fighting over alternative energy schemes in the form of methane hydrates off the coast of Japan.
The plot is pretty lame. Even lamer are the mentions of the “greenhouse gas potency of methane being hundreds of times that of carbon” (I’m paraphrasing what I saw on closed captioning) but I’m sure there was no mention of carbon dioxide, just carbon. Another line is “yes, methane is dangerous”.
That, and mining methane hydrates from the ocean floor off the coast of japan is causing earthquakes.
Any minute now I expect fracking to be mentioned and maybe they’ll bring in Al Gore for some carbon credit advice from Goldman Sachs to help offset the methane in Japan. I expect JR will try to corner both the methane hydrates AND the carbon credit markets. It sure seems headed that way.
I’m turning off the show now, so I guess we’ll never know.
Pundits are panning it as a “looming disaster” and wondering why it was even remade in the first place.
Barbara Skolaut says:
June 14, 2012 at 8:30 pm
Jeez. There’s a shark in there someplace, and a lot of jumping.
I think you just gave them the idea for a spin-off — Jaws 7: Megalodon Munches the Methane Miners…
Hagman should have stuck with scantily-clad genies in a bottle, they’re far more believable.
I read the lousy reviews and then watched the show.
I loved it! -but I didn’t get emotionally (or scienticically) involved.
Even my usually jaded husband laughed @ur momisugly it.
Assuming one can approach a TV show as entertainment, this one did the job.
But no sex, no homosexual innuendo, no bloody violence. YUP! It’ll bomb. for sure.
Barbee says:
June 16, 2012 at 6:55 am
I’m pretty sure I saw some scenes involving mattresses and pillows, even a little skirt hiking and body slamming. In any case, I agree. I didn’t see much to get worked up about. There were a few scenes in which Christopher pontificated annoyingly, but it was entirely in character, and he didn’t really come off very well. He’s getting used and abused every which way he turns. Even his new bride is scheming against him.
In the original series, Bobby was well-meaning, but a doormat. As revealed in the final episode, without JR, he’d have ended up a two-bit hustler. JR was an uber jerk, but he made it all go. Still, without Bobby, he’d have ended up overreaching, and falling to ruin.
That’s the way the world works, the yin and the yang, the tension between the forces of the light and the dark, which keeps everything in balance. The new series looks to be shaping up the same way. I think they made a good start.