Friday, July 27, 2012

Dallas


Dallas
Episode 8: No Good Deed
By: Carlos Uribe

Dallas is a show about the wealthy, powerful, and scandalous Ewing family. It's a continuation of the 1978-1991 CBS series of the same name.

Spoilers Ahoy!

This week the cops decide that the most likely killer of Marta is John Ross. Their evidence seems to be substantial. They note how he witnesses saw him ran away from the crime scene, they found his fingerprints and DNA at the crime scene, and that his scratch is probably from Marta. It looks bad until you dissect one important piece of information: what the witnesses saw. They saw Marta's body fall as he was leaving the hotel. In other words, they didn't see him kill her. All they saw was that he saw the body and promptly sped away. This should indicate that John Ross is important to the crime but not that he's necessarily the killer. They saw that he wasn't at the crime scene. It doesn't make any logical sense for the police to actually think that John Ross is the killer and it seems even more idiotic that not a single character puts this together. John Ross keeps talking about how there was a camera in the room but he doesn't ever ask them to look at hotel security footage that a nice hotel would more than likely have. It should have been easy to prove his innocence but the characters refused to act logically or even professionally for the sake of the plot.

It also leads to a lot of characters sacrificing in order to try and save John Ross. His mother decides that she will cross a line. She had promised an honest campaign but for the second time she finds herself acting dishonestly for family. She goes to a medical examiner and tries to bribe and blackmail him into ruling Marta's death a suicide. She offers him the spot of Chief Medical Officer, or equivalent, when she is Governor and she also brings up that the medical examiner has been prescribing medicine-even though his patients are all supposed to be dead. What devastates her the most isn't that she did this action but that it was all in vain. When her son ended up being released, it meant that the real killers of Marta would go free. It meant that she had done what she had promised herself she wouldn't do and it was all for nothing. She might have been acting in what she thought was in the best interest as a mother but it was ultimately backfiring on her. The worst news possible is if the medical examiner goes through what he was implying and admit what he did.

The person who made the biggest sacrifice was Christopher. His technology seems to be working perfectly fine and is valued to be in the billions. This means that anyone who gets exclusive rights from him is going to be very rich. This is showed by the episode when he turns down an offer by Exxon for some exclusive mining rights. Christopher realizes that he can not only save John Ross but also stop the oil drilling from Southfork. All he has to do is to alter the deal with the Venezuelans: they get exclusive rights to mine in South America. Christopher is able to save the day. He wasn't the only one willing to do this as Bobby was even willing to drill in Southfork to pay off the loan and to keep John Ross safe. Now that the Venezuelans have been appeased, they plan to fight the deal and ensure that they get Southfork back.

This was a pretty good episode of Dallas, even if it had a major logical flaw. What made this episode good is to see how far the characters were all willing to go for family. There was more going on: Rebecca and her brother are revealed to not be actual siblings but ex-lovers. That twist I had assumed from the beginning and it certainly makes sense that the series went there. It is a little disappointing considering how predictable it was. The episode also had Christopher going from some angry and annoying guy to someone who is finally letting things go. That character can hold a grudge. Overall this episode managed to have a lot of sacrifice and it was good.

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