What a huge disappointment to start watching this and become utterly bored from the get-go. Not only are the characters one-dimensional, but they are knock-offs of other characters we've seen in much better shows.
The whole "alternative" energy story line could've been ripped from the Wikipedia page on methane hydrate (clathrate). Except Dallas' writer makes a mess of the whole premise, and then makes it worse by using statistics on methane's global warming potential by using them in the wrong context (and also using the now-discredited IPCC's faulty models). That whole scenario raised the hackles on my neck because I'm sick to death of writers getting it all wrong or trying to sum it up in a sound-byte.
The line about the "drilling" for MH causing an earthquake is another fiction propagated by another now-discredited story that was on the news (frakking causes earthquakes!). I appreciate good shows with good information and reliable data. This has neither.
They'd have had better luck in suspension of disbelief if they wanted to turn Southfork into a giant wind farm or solar panel array. And contrary to what Christopher did on the show, you can't "light" a piece of frozen MH pulled out of a cooler on fire with a match. It needs to be melting or heated up first to allow the gas time to escape. It's like trying to ignite liquid propane/methane. Ain't gonna happen. Has to be a gas first.
All in all the whole story, plot, backstabbing, and petty bickering were un-witty and wholly unsatisfying. Reruns of Dynasty are better than this.
The whole "alternative" energy story line could've been ripped from the Wikipedia page on methane hydrate (clathrate). Except Dallas' writer makes a mess of the whole premise, and then makes it worse by using statistics on methane's global warming potential by using them in the wrong context (and also using the now-discredited IPCC's faulty models). That whole scenario raised the hackles on my neck because I'm sick to death of writers getting it all wrong or trying to sum it up in a sound-byte.
The line about the "drilling" for MH causing an earthquake is another fiction propagated by another now-discredited story that was on the news (frakking causes earthquakes!). I appreciate good shows with good information and reliable data. This has neither.
They'd have had better luck in suspension of disbelief if they wanted to turn Southfork into a giant wind farm or solar panel array. And contrary to what Christopher did on the show, you can't "light" a piece of frozen MH pulled out of a cooler on fire with a match. It needs to be melting or heated up first to allow the gas time to escape. It's like trying to ignite liquid propane/methane. Ain't gonna happen. Has to be a gas first.
All in all the whole story, plot, backstabbing, and petty bickering were un-witty and wholly unsatisfying. Reruns of Dynasty are better than this.