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Dallas: The Complete Fourteenth Season

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And so it ends, although there were of course two reunion sequels, one better than the other. This year was the last one for Dallas, and the cast departures for budget cuts translating to decreased ratings obviously reached it's breaking point. This season saw many players gone or with a reduced episode count, and the result was of course those viewers who were fans leaving. Despite this, I feel that anytime a soap is ending, it by definition won't be as fun as when it was going on. In retrospect, I think the only way to go was to have a sort of tragic finale where the remaining characters sort of faced their destiny. JR deals with losing everything, Bobby loses his new wife but gains Southfork, and Cliff Barnes finally gets control of Ewing Oil. The year is really about the tragedy of the two brothers as they slowly come to grips with losing much of all they ever thought was important in life-one being able to deal with it and the other not, in retrospect very well done. The series finale features JR and a devil played by Joel Grey visiting an alternate reality where JR was never born and many familiar faces from the past returned. Ultimately it is kind of a fun ride, but I must agree that it was rather unsatisfying as an ending. Fortunately we got the first reunion in 96, JR Returns, and that was a much better conclusion for fans of the show, and that will thankfully be released soon as well. So, for what it is, the last season of Dallas is really appropriate and as good as it could have been really. With Barbara Bel Geddes, Charlene Tilton, and Lesley Anne Down leaving and Barbara Stock added to the main title, also starring Jared Martin as Dusty Farlow, Gayle Hunnicut as Vanessa Beaumont, Clifton James as Duke Carlisle, and John Harkins as Control, with special appearances by Susan Lucci, Barbara Eden, Mary Crosby, Linda Gray, Joel Grey, Steve Kanaly, Jack Scalia, Ted Shackelford, and Joan Van Ark.

I really wanted to love it and like it but it was just plain hard since it was so boring. I don't know why it has stayed so expensive because it is so not worth it. The show just couldn't be the same without Sue Ellen, Lucy, Ms. Ellie, and Clayton. Cliff was way too mild. I know Sheree Wilson was pregnant but I think it would have been better for her to go away another way and not the stupid way they killed her. Season 14 was like they had short timmer's disease, they knew this was it so the writers didn't give a darn. I wish Dallas went off with a bang but it didn't, but being a die hard Dallas fan I had to see it. I would have been more than happy if my local library would have had this season but they didn't. Usually I don't pay much attention to when people write about bad color and clarity because I usually think that some people are too picky and want beyond perfection, but I will have to say that the color and clarity was off at some points. I wouldn't have thought this was the 14th season by the way it looked because it looked really old compared to the previous seasons.

If you have not bought this season and you have Netflix I would suggets you getting it there or the library. If you can see it without buying it you will have done yourself a financial favor. I wouldn't suggest not wasting your time and seeing it, I would just say if you don't have to purchase it then please don't unless you have extra money to throw around.

Dallas had already run out a steam by Season 13. Now in 14 with many of the original characters gone, it's a pale and pointless ghost of itself. But I bought it to complete the set, if only to get one more glimpse of the magnificent Linda Gray as a Sue Ellen who never met JR.

I wanted to love it, I really did. I still do! But I thought the story lines were wrapped up a little to quickly and neatly compared to the previous ones. From the death of April to all of the family members who just conveniently went on vacation at the same time I felt like the writers were scrambling there at the end to keep it going. Not sure if they ran out of ideas or kept trying to resurrect the show to contine for another season. Why would Miss Ellie leave her beloved family and SF? Why would she not rush home to be with Bobbi when April died? So out of character for her. Also, JR basically just rolled over and played dead when he found out he had another son with Callie, when his eldest one decided to leave the ranch and John Ross left to be with his mother. The JR we all grew to love, and hate, would never let them go! He would also never have let Ewing Oil go without putting up a fierce fight. We just didn't see that spark with him during this season. He seemed broken. I made myself finish watching because I had watched all of the other seasons but it really didn't do much for me. Sad- I wish the series had ended on a more interesting and exciting note.

With the exception of the last 2 episodes with Joel Gray, this last year of Dallas was a boring disaster.

Warner Bros. has done an EXCELLENT job releasing Dallas on DVD!

As of 2010, the first 12 seasons are available on DVD, with the Thirteenth Season coming soon in April!

That just leaves One Season left for this long running prime time television Soap Opera!

Dallas - The Complete Fourteenth Season is expected to be released in 2011, or sometime later in 2010, if we get lucky!

I can't wait to have all 14 Seasons of one of the greastet soap operas that was ever created!

Hopefully, Warner Home Video will put more effort into Knots Landing and Falcon Crest, right after they finish Dallas!

Please release more seasons for both soaps!

They should have called it quits and not made such a terrible last season. It was so bad, I couldnt even sit through the terrible writing and the horrid acting. I mean, theres not much to do are talk about here in this season, its just bobby and j.r. going around in circles.

The product was good. Everything worked wonderfully. The plot line for this final season was weak and lame! It was a letdown to watch the new characters make the show a loser.

The show lasted 14 seasons.
All fans remember the start of the show, the good storylines and characters.

They let the show go on too long.
How stupid the storylines got.

Here we go with the last season. They got rid of Miss Ellie and Lucy AGAIN for the entire season. We see Clayton a couple of times.

For the last episodes we get to see Sue Ellen, Gary, Ray & Kristen with the stupid finale with Oscar winner Joel Grey.

Bringing in Barbara Eden for a reunion with Larry for several episodes. Susan Lucci for several episodes with that horrible, made no sense storyline that killed the April character.

Bobby moping for another wife lost, yet another woman to pick up the pieces.

The James character, terrible. None of these storyline made SENSE. How many more shootings did we need, how many more murders.

They did their style of the famous Dynasty shoot out.

I had loved the show, but these last seasons were just bad.

And, for the end of the show, why NO EXTRAS on here?

This may be the final season but it's not the end of the show and we don't complete our collection if the three tv dallas movies are not available.
ONLY when "jr returns, war of the ewings and the early years" will be released on dvd we will complete our collection SO BRING THEM ON SOON...