Dallas: Another half dozen inconsistencies

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.

Dallas: My top ten inconsistencies from Episode One

Splendid first episode.

I've chosen my top ten inconsistencies, I'm sure there are dozens more:

1. Surely everybody knows that methane is CH4, i.e. emits as much CO2 when you burn it as oil does, so it's hardly some super duper save the world type 'alternative energy'.

2. Why would you need to drill for the stuff, Wiki and other sources say that it's buried under the sediment on the ocean floor, isn't that sort of mud and loose rock

3. Is it really possible that you can trigger an earthquake by doing a bit of drilling or scraping up sediment? You can just about trigger an earthquake by detonating a nuclear bomb underground, but not from a bit of test drilling. I'm not sure I believe that story about fracking causing an earthquake near Blackpool.

4. Even if you can trigger an earthquake by drilling, surely that'd only happen in an earthquake zone along a fault line. Surely there's plenty of ocean floor which is safely well away from fault lines where it would be perfectly safe.

5. Did John Ross seriously think he could get away with drilling for oil in a far flung corner of his uncle's ranch?

6. Isn't Bobby the biggest hypocrite of all, refusing his nephew permission to drill for oil on a far flung corner of his ranch, seeing as he made his millions in the oil business?

7. When Bobby announced he was going to sell Southfork, why didn't John Ross congratulate him for his wise decision and then buy up the ranch behind Bobby's back. Admittedly, JR had hatched exactly this blindingly obvious plan, but how thick is John Ross?

8. When Elena told Christopher about the email (which John Ross sent her, purporting to be Christopher and dumping her just before she and Christopher were to get married) why didn't he deny it a bit more strenuously?

9. And seeing as he was about to snog her, five minutes before his wedding to the fat boring American chick, wouldn't it be traditional for his actual fiancée to walk in and see them and then run away crying? I mean, if you're going to do hackneyed and predictable plot twists, why not that one? I feel a bit cheated to be honest.

10. If Bobby is so caring and considerate, would he not tell his wife that he was dying of cancer? And what happened to little Pam? Did she die in the original series or something? Get shot in the shower, maybe?

11. How come JR snapped out of his clinical depression so fast? Or was he faking it the whole time, if so why? How did he fool the nursing staff into thinking he was seriously mentally ill? Did he actually take his "med's" or chuck them down the toilet?

If they keep this up, I'm going to have to start cross-referencing all these little contradictions to try and keep track. FFS, they've had twenty years to come up with a plausible script and this is what we get?

Twelve hours to go...