What was Dallas' fans reaction upon hearing of the TNT show?

A mixture of scepticism and indifference. I assumed it either wouldn't get made, like DALLAS The Movie, or it would be old and knackered like War of the Ewings. How wrong I was.

 

So excited and also very badly wanting it to be good and worth waiting for.

 

I was interested and hopeful, but knew how these continuations tend to miss the mark and why. And nuDALLAS basically was screwed up in the those ways.

It could have been worse, I guess.

 

No reaction here. I wasn't informed.

 

But you were on this forum weren't you? Which surely was buzzing with excitement and reactions when it was announced?

 

I...I can't remember!

 

Really excited mixed with a good dose of trepidation after hearing early reports the continuation was to ignore the reunion movies. But then TNT released the first Trailer;

All those fights, over Ewing Oil...and Southfork. We laid waste to everything in our path JR. And for what?

.....I don't want them to be like us.

When I watched that trailer I thought, "Holy crap!" This looks really good. Whoever put that trailer together should be commended because that's how you hook an audience. Amazing dialogue, music which fits every frame.

And my favourite people were back; JR, Bobby and Sue Ellen

 

If I'm remembering correctly, I first heard that they were considering bringing the show back in late 2009. So there was approximately two and a half years between the announcement of it and the airing of the pilot episode. I was intrigued by the idea, but I ultimately thought it would end up like the Dallas movie. Ever since War of the Ewings aired, there had been a lot of talk about reviving Dallas in one form or another, but it never materialized. It wasn't until they announced the pilot was being filmed in 2011 that I started becoming excited.

The trailers also perked my interest. By the time the show aired, I was beyond excited to finally see. Unfortunately, it was an uneven show that never fully lived up to its potential

 

Same for me. There had been a lot of false starts but when I realised that it was happening this time I was very excited.

 

Very excited. I hoped I would see lots of characters from the original mixed with the new generation. I hoped I would see Pam, Jenna and Donna, Lucas and Margaret, Katherine...

Unfortunately there was no explanation of what had happened to Jenna and Ray's marriage. Ray and Lucy were hardly there. No word about Donna, Lucas and Margaret...

When Victoria Principal said she wouldn't return, I would have accepted a recast. I was curious how the writers would have explained the reason for Pam abandoning Bobby and Christopher. Because it was so unlike Pam! When they decided she had died, but had wanted to return, I was disappointed, but it made the character more 'believable'. I think Cidre did a good thing with this storyline. Bobby's reaction made HIM unbelievable, though. I mean, he had mourned Pam a long time ago, but it should have made a difference if you had been stood up by your wife or the knowledge of her wanting to return to him and her son. I thought he was rather cold when he found out.

 

Oh yeah! He sounded as if he had said: "Can´t even remember the face of that beech!" Very nasty.

 

I was absolutely delighted that the show was coming back when it was first announced as I'm a very big fan of the original hit series.

It was great watching it too. Well mostly for the first two seasons. However when news broke about that whole A Ewing Will Die & the way the storylines were going to run in that third series that's when I parted company with it. It just became Dallas in name only & bore little relation to the series which came before it.

Yes it was upsetting to see it cancelled. However I think we were spared a really bad season four if the show had've been given a reprieve. I did dislike the apparent lack of character development in the Cyntax Dallas. It was all plot & no substance. The way Elena & Pamela switched between John Ross & Christopher got laughable. Bobby became a very cold character I thought, uninterested when it was finally discovered that Pamela Barnes Ewing (Victoria Principal) had apparently died years ago. It was so completely out of character from the Bobby we knew from the Lorimar Dallas. And don't get me started on Cliff Barnes. They turned the late Ken Kercheval's character into a complete monster completely unlike the lovable nerd we knew from the old show.

In another way I felt a sense of relief when it was confirmed that it was cancelled. Cynthia Cidre & Mike Robin hadn't a clue as to what made the original Dallas such a hit. There was too many extraneous characters, the Ewings felt like guest stars in their own show. And that whole killing off of Christopher in a car explosion was in very poor taste considering how Victoria Principal departed the show at the close of season ten of the original Dallas.

Who knows what the future holds. I still think the premise of Dallas is still a strong one & perhaps some time in the future, the show could come back once again. As I'm often fond of saying, Dallas may be a dead series but death is not the end. Dallas, To Be Continued......

 

I was a fan of the original and it was must viewing. My reaction was excitement and joy. I would finally see JR,Sue Ellen and Bobby again! Seeing them again did not disappoint! I just wish that they were the main charactors instead of secondary charactors.

 

i was like oooh will it work and also a bit exited