Here are a few more from episode one which spring to mind:
1. Why did the burglar at Southfork leave the house by throwing himself through a window across which the curtains had been pulled, a highly dangerous and risky manoeuvre, seeing the window might be double glazed or bullet proof glass. This is even more ridiculous for the fact that there was a glass door right next to it which was unlocked anyway? Bobby's wife opened it and pointed her shotgun at the fleeing burglar but did not fire at him, despite saying that she would.
2. If Southfork is used as a farm, where are all the outbuildings?
3. If Bobby wants to sell Southfork (to raise money for his son's business venture) but for it to remain as a farm (and no oil to be extracted there), then he is cutting off his nose to spite his face. If there really are two billion barrels of oil there, the land must be worth twenty billion dollars or something, but in agricultural use it is only worth a few million.
4. It was mentioned that Bobby wanted to sell the farm subject to a restrictive covenant not to drill for oil or otherwise develop it. So assuming this covenant is binding and enforceable, it does not matter who he sells it to, he does not need to sell it to the Del Sol NIMBY organisation. And we know that Marta Del Sol is in fact a fraudster, so did Bobby not check out her 'organisation' online or anything to see if they exist?
5. Texas is a very sparsely populated state, the USA is forty times as big as the UK with only five times the population, and most of that population lives along the coast or the Great Lakes. So why do they have NIMBYs anyway? And what 'beautiful views' are they wanting to preserve? The land is flat as far as the eye can see and it's just grass land.
Thursday 6 September 2012
Dallas: Another half dozen inconsistencies
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2 comments:
Now how did we get the idea you might be right into the new Dallas?
JH, it's car crash telly, it is so excruciatingly awful that it's quite compelling.
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