This evening I felt intrigued enough to watch the first episode of the attempt to resuscitate Dallas. I vaguely remember the music from my childhood.
While I struggled to sit through an entire hour of a patently uneven plot, the piece that struck me was that the 'good' cousin is linked to a form of alternative energy even more destructive than oil. He wants his father to sell the ranch on which the young John Ross has just discovered oil to pour into a form of alternative energy that burns frozen methane harvested from beneath the sea.
Through the episode, the 'good' cousin proves his 'goodness' by admitting to his father that evidence has come to light that there may be a link between underwater earthquakes and extracting frozen methane. He is concerned that thousands may lose his lives.
I do not understand how we can live in a world where the 'good' character is typified by the link to burning a greenhouse gas so much more dangerous than carbon dioxide. He's worried about the thousands to die in earthquakes rather than the massive ecosystem damage that could be caused by clogging the atmosphere even further. If you want to resuscitate an ancient show like Dallas, at least focus on the pertinent facts.
