Dallas Season 11 Final " Good-bye Sue Ellen " 4/4

[alslevie1986]

@fwdthinker

Spot on. Cally was a weak insipid replacement, Everybody knew once the chase was over, JR would get bored.

[Srd1126]

It was amazing this drunken tramp pulled this off. BTW, the movie "Sue Ellen" was hot.

[jephsteph]

Wow, Sue Ellen strapped it on there !

[sexysagi]

Work it , Sue Ellen!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[colohh91]

woah, sue ellen has a butt! i've been watching the beginning seasons and she is a stick!

[free2drm]

Damn, SE looked smokin' hot here. They sent her off with a bang. She looked like a fox with long hair.

[StreathamG]

This is the worst of all DALLAS cliffhangers. I remember watching for the first time and thinking, she'll step on a cable and get electrocuted on the way out or something and die in JR's arms, but that never happened. Such a bad way to end the season - Sue Ellen should have died and JR should have repented knowing he'd lost the love of his life. Such a waste of a cliffhanger.

[Cersia23]

For those who didn't 'get' it. Sue Ellen is going to use the film to keep JR away from her.If she airs it the film loses its teeth (Which does sort of show she still at least respects him because she doesn't just go out and do it). It's meant to keep JR from coming after her as he has done time and time before. I guess I'm the only person in the who really believe that Sue Ellen made her own choices in her life and wasn't forced to do a damn thing by JR.

[mrpapafunky7879]

What was going through JR's head watching the acting version of himself?

[bigb1716]

Sue Ellen's last episode on Dallas gave me a great idea on how to get back at my ex-fiance, who I can't stand!!!!!

[cagustilo]

J.R. is such an asshole!

[Tom6093]

Good for Sue Ellen. And the great part is .....Larry and Linda in real life are great friends.

[TheGCStyle]

For all who can't understand Sue Ellen's exit, you do not understand the power behind JR Ewing. JR was all about being the "big man", the man with the inside knowledge, the secrets, and influence. That movie would take all of that away from him, making him the "ultimate joke" in the business world and all over the world. When you take away the pride of a man like J.R., you take away his "self made" identity. Sue Ellen left with class, dignity, and the ultimate trump card to destroying J.R.

[Rockatansky33]

Sue Ellen remains one of the best-written character on TV (and Linda Gray a great actress) We supported her struggle for independance and pride season after season. This part is a gift for a actress !

BUT who'd spend so much money producing a movie he won't ever release...??? (even in DVD^^) I enjoyed the saxo, I enjoyed the scene, I enjoyed the way Sue Ellen vanished off screen, but Linda Gray left the Titanic just on time... Writters seemed they didn't know the characters nor the show...

[Michaelahol]

YOU GO SUE ELLEN!!!!

[Fanik8]

"You'll be in the Gutta in less than a week." Sounds more Georgia talk than Texas.

[michael65]

It's interesting how when any of the major players left it was in a blaze of glory...until this one. Bobby was run over and Pam left in a blaze of glory yet Sue-Ellen walks away grinning. Easily the weakest cliffhanger. Sadly Dallas was well on the way out by this point. Should've finished at least 2 years before this.,.

[TheGCStyle]

@michael65 For all who can't understand Sue Ellen's exit, don't understand the power behind JR. JR was all about being the "big man", the man with the inside knowledge, the secrets, and influence. That movie would take all of that away from him, making him the "ultimate joke" in the business world and all over the world. When you take away the pride of a man like J.R., you take away his "self made" identity. Sue Ellen left with class, dignity, and the ultimate trump card to destroying J.R.

[rah760]

This was a fairly lame ending IMHO. JR, who had connections everywhere and knew everything even before it happened, was somehow taken surprise by a film about him which had been made over the course of who knows how long by his ex-wife? It was really implausible, even by "Dallas" standards.

[SaleGuy]

Very weak cliffhanger!

[ClassicLoverA]

"I've learn how to be devious at the feet of the master"..... Classic Line.

[MrCraigblaze]

what did jr say in 3:30?

[campbellka]

"If I wake up on the wrong side of the bed, or if I'm just........bored, I'll release this, and you'll be the laughingstock of the Texas." Love it that she says she'll release it if she's bored.

[jksonny]

I just got this season on DVD. I had forgotten how terrible it is. Many of the scenes are just plain painful to watch. And Sue Ellen's movie plot is the worst.

And what exactly was Don Lockwood doing on the movie? He's supposedly a writer but every scene they showed from the film was nearly identical to the way the events actually occurred. So what was he writing?

[FinnMove]

Sue Ellen stayed in Dallas too long in my opinion. The best moment to leave for her was when she heartbreakingly left John Ross to JR because John Ross wanted to live in Southfork. But an unselfish thing to do for her !

[jksonny]

Most people don't agree but I think Sue Ellen should have died in the Southfork fire. Her character had run its course and watching JR cope with her death would have made for great drama.

[MrCamelot91]

@jksonny Oh My God are you for real???? LMAO!

[TheGCStyle]

@FinnMove I disagree...she needed a stronger exit. This one where she leaves as a successful rising producer with the very movie that can reveal the "real JR Ewing" was perfect. It was classy, dignified, and sassy. Very appropriate for an actress like Linda and her character Sue Ellen who has grown to be a sharp and strong woman with just as much power as JR.

[cruelintentions9978]

I luv this ending. After all the years of abuse Sue Ellen took from JR.. she deserved to come out on top. It was great to see her become such a strong character. It was sad though when she left the show.. as it was when Pam left. As Sue Ellen says.. "then you will be the laughing stock of Texas"! Great line!

[alslevie1986]

The last thing she says is classic,If I hear that you hurt anyone I care about or just get out of the wrong side of the bed,I'll release it.

[bryancrowusa]

Okay, real Dallas fans...has anyone noticed that in the recap in the following season, Sue Ellen says "I'll be back" before she walks out of the theatre? For some reason that line was cut and not used in the original season finale. It would have been a little more interesting.

[JAldridge86]

Hmm, does she? You must have a copy from the original broadcast.

[Baldnsexynchi]

@bryancrowusa I remember that, Bryan... It was in the recap/opening for the next season. It was the last thing in the scenes...AND she had a cunning look on her face. BRILLIANT. My guess is that they left it open for LG/SE to return should she choose to. Loved it. Love SE/LG....who's aging marvelously.

[luerike]

@bryancrowusa YES YES. I thought it was me who imaged she would said that. Don't forget. I will be back! then she left the theater. She did say that! 

[jksonny]

I read recently that Leonard Katzman was disappointed when the ratings for the first episode of the following season were released. What did he expect???? The close to this season was ridiculous and didn't even have a cliffhanger.

[TheJaking87]

I know, it wasn't exactly a dramatic ending. I don't know why Sue Ellen went to all the trouble of making this spectacular movie with the intention of destroying J.R, only to show him a two minute snippet. It was then locked up in a vault, never to be mentioned again. What a waste of money and resources.

[imachildofthe80s8089]

But she said that if JR ever messed with her or anyone she loves ever again, she would present this film with the rest of the world just so they knew all the secrets behind the real man of JR Ewing, his true miserable life story!

[imachildofthe80s8089]

I thought Linda Gray's final episode was magnificent! Though Gray's departure was not making the falling ratings slip up any. If anything it was a good closing for LG to rap up the character of the long suffering Sue Ellen for 11 years!

[olmaBLN]

I LOVE THIS END... it is great and I alway love J.R.´s face, when he was get kicked in his ass by anyone else, especially by Sue Ellen!!!!

J.R.´s was such an awesome bad-character and Larry Hagmann such perfect J.R.... I

DALLAS was best, forgett the rest!!

[imachildofthe80s8089]

yeah during Dallas final years, all those he sinned against:(Bobby, Cliff and Sue Ellen mainly) were finally getting the backbone and well deserved power that JR had extracted from them, which made JR weak and empty and not half the man he always felt he was by torturing everybody. Yes olma this was a great ending. Kudos Sue Ellen for giving JR the long held kick in the pants for everything that man ever put you through!

[morecambeboy]

i think the Dallas fans are the most selected and nice persons, i grew up watching this serie and even when i from another country and this is Panama we love the old good quality american tv series, i used to see it at midnight, just imagine a 6 years boy stayed up to late, but was for one day, it was a Dallas show per week, i cries qhen one of this actors died.

God bless american tv

[StreathamG]

I think that Sue Ellens character tranformation was believable when you consider that the old Sue Ellen was a drunk totally under JRs control. As soon as she ditched the booze and JR she became the person she should have always been - a legitimate transformation.

That said; this season cliffhanger is NOT GOOD. LG wanted to leave and I really wanted an emotional ending. I thought that she could have had cancer and died in JRs arms; her last words to JR ..."Look after John Ross; I love you" END

[imachildofthe80s8089]

no I don't agree. but your theory would have been another good one to go by had you written out her departure. Just by chance, did Linda Gray's leaving have anything to do with the fact that she didn't enjoy having to do kissing scenes with Jack Scalia(who played her lover Nicholas but died at the start of the 88-89) season? Star ran an article in 89 that said she demanded him fired or she'd quit because she believed he had AIDS.

[StreathamG]

I was under the impression that LG liked Jack Scalia and I doubt she didn't want to work with him especially when you consider that she returned for the final episode - and co-starred alongside...Jack Scalia. Apparently they wanted Ian McShane (Don Lockwood) to return for the final show but he was in England and unavailable; Scalia was the second choice and LG agreed to return with Jack.

PS You don't agree that Sue Ellens transformation was legit? Why Not? How would you have written her out?

[MrCamelot91]

@imachildofthe80s8089 She never said that - it was a total lie by the press - you believe what you read in the 'Star'? lol

[Rockatansky33]

@StreathamG

Linda Gray demanded not to "die"... And what for anyway? To have JR awakening one of his day from a nightmare...? Sue Ellen deserved a victorious departure!

[stockholmboy29]

So sad that Linda Gray left the show (J.R and Sue Ellen was two of the most important characters). After she left, DALLAS was sinking like Titanic. The last 2 years were horrible and full of stupid storylines. At least, Sue Ellen left the show in a good/respectful way when the show still was OK, although not great any more. After this; it was only J.R, Bobby and Cliff from the original cast left on the show. They should have ended the show here. American TV-shows always runs to long!

[Srd1126]

Wonder if the movie showed Sue Ellen tramping around with Cliff Barnes, Dusty Farlow, and even John Ross' camp counselor?

[teisho71]

... "just for laughs", she said with her crooked texas mouth .... and marched her bad self out of there !!!

[Comradeguy]

He should have just pulled a "Dr. Evil" and just had her down a shoot.

[jameskoolkat]

what happened to Sue Ellen's hair in the final moments???

[nateboytwo]

yea, it did kinda look like a wig line...i guess back then extentions were not "made" yet....????? but yea something is definately up :)

[SaleGuy]

J.R. owned!!!

[ordflyboy]

That was and awsome scene

[dcntry]

hey it was awsome in this scene. because sue ellen fianlly gave back what jr as been given her all those years. if you know what i mean.

[LeanaJoH76]

So, what happened to Sue Ellen's son (from season 2 & 3)??

I only have seasons 1, 2, & 3 right now, on DVD. I remember the show when I was a little girl, but I never saw it very often. My parents wouldn't let me watch certain episodes.

[michael65]

The fact she made that movie wasn't the cliffhanger. The fact that Linda Gray (easily one of the best and most important cast members) was finally leaving the show, weak as it is, was what this finale's all about. She specifically requested that her character leave the show on a good note.

[TheGCStyle]

@michael65 No! This was a perfect exit for Sue Ellen. Think about it...Pam stated to Bobby during the early years of Dallas that J.R. Ewing's power was in his secrets. J.R. how to get away with things and use influence and secrets to his power. By Sue Ellen making that movie, that was the ultimate revenge because she has the trump card, which is to show the world who J.R. really was, the ugly secrets behind his power, and his ultimate insecurities..making him the ultimate joke.

[bette1908]

When did Sue Ellen buy a movie studio? And since when do they have movie studio's in DALLAS?

[FinnMove]

I think that gray- haired J. R. was much

softer than the younger one.

[jasondh22]

@FinnMove I don't think he was softer, I just think everyone else became stronger.

[NFitalianGuy]

Dallas was a male dominated show. The actresses were very important but it really was about the characters and their relationships unlike DYNASTY Where the women ruled the roost. I can't picture Jock being henpecked. This was one of the worst cliffahngers Dallas ever played. This one and the 1982 "good-bye Cliff Barnes", cliffhanger. Also watch 3:42 then 3:46 too different looks for Sue Ellen's hair. This was a lame cliffahnger. I am one of Dallas' biggest fan but this really was a bad one.

[TheGCStyle]

@NFitalianGuy For all don't understand the cliffhanger, do not understand the power behind JR Ewing. JR was all about being the "big man", the man with the inside knowledge, the secrets, and influence. That movie would take all of that away from him, making him the "ultimate joke" in the business world and all over the world. When you take away the pride of a man like J.R., you take away his "self made" identity. Sue Ellen left with class, dignity, and the ultimate trump card to destroying J.R.

[exemptinferno]

Yep it's Ian McShane - he played a character named Don Lockwood who was an English movie director that Sue Ellen worked with in Season 11 (DVD 12) and would later leave with him to England where she married him. During the final season John Ross also decides to go and live them but by J.R. Returns in 1996 it is revealed that Sue Ellen had divorced Lockwood because she could never get over the love she felt for J.R. ( According to John Ross anyway )

[exemptinferno]

Maybe they should make that the subject of the big screen movie !!! Sue Ellen FINALLY releases it - that would even allow cameos from Larry, Linda and Patrick !!!

[paulac2006]

i love sue ellen but this kinda makes her weak lol and JR too and for a cliffhanger lol?? wtf lol also i didn't think she had surgery but looks like she's had work done here :O nooo

[JENANJUZE]

Oh Please!!! Whats the big deal? So the slut releases it, Jr. can then bring out her angelic past. Give me a break, like this scene was something, they should have came up with something better than this. So many want to be like Jr. but simply can't. There is and always will be only one JR.

[jksonny]

Terrible storyline. Why would actors and a reputable director, crew, etc. agree to work on a film that would never be released??? Sue Ellen's character should have died in the Southfork fire. There was nothing left for her to do and her storylines were terrible; the Peter romance, drinking again, back to JR again, the lingerie business, Nicholas P, and the 180 transformation into Abby/Alexis was ridiculous. Dallas was too attached to certain characters; Donna, Jenna, SE, Cliff, Lucy, etc

[fgeorge76]

Kind of wierd that they claimed one of the reasons all the woman left, because Katzman didn't like dominant female roles and yet Sue Ellen became one from Season 9 up until her exit in Season 11.

Sadly, one of the greatest heels of Prime Time Soap Opera had turned into a sap. I remember when JR was an evil genius, which kind of died when they brought Bobby back.

[JamesPeterLive1]

And JR, you will be the laughing stock of Texas!

[fwdthinker]

Truthfully, I think J.R. kinda got turned on whenever Sue Ellen would do things like this. As long as she was a drunken doormat, he wasn't interested in her. But the more of a bitch she became, the more he seemed to want her.

[missfinola]

your deff right. (:

he likes the powerful, arrogant women. lmao.

<3

[LightnRod1]

The Cliffhanger should have been her releasing it and leaving and the JR and the Ewings dealing with the scandel of it all in season 12

[rmhm73]

who the fuck does she think she is? JR should destroy her! lol

[weststaroil]

Damn straight. That bitch only got strength because of that damn dick sucking mother fuckin Clayton Farlow. I hated that goddamn bastard. I wish Jock had been alive to kill him.

[nobiggie90]

Sue Ellen...class act, all the way.

[sexysagi]

Pure Dynamite!! Sue Ellen had JR by the balls!! A perfect exit for one of our favorite Dallas characters!!

[73gossipboy]

@sexysagi She should have released it anyway that would have been the perfect payback for all the shady shit J.R. has done to her for many years!!

[WCD73]

Sue Ellen kind of looks like Morticia Adams here,does'nt she?

[WCD73]

Burn it Sue Ellen!!! great line from JR.

[birdsfan08]

What is going on with Sue Ellens GOTH look

[ColtraneTaylor]

This is the first time I've thought Sue Ellen look good. This hair suits her a lot and she doesn't make the stupid twitching faces in the earlier episodes. That said, this stuff is boring and more like your standard soap. yawn... this is not the reason I liked Dallas. Seasons 1-5 were good. Since then...

[younggeorgy]

amazing scene...SueEllen is one step ahead of J.r.,AND she looks like a goddess!

[IrinaDerevkoLives]

I like this sue ellen better than the earlier seasons. She is jr's equal in this season and I loved it and had more chemistry than ever.