Dallas Recap: The Demise of Not Marta

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By Pollyanna | Sunday, July 22, 2012 | 1:22 am | 11 Comments
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Hello everyone!  I admit – I am terrible about submitting the recaps quickly.  This week has been crazy at work, so I am just getting around to it.  The kids and husband are asleep, so I can hurry up and get this done!

In case everyone forgot, we closed last week with the revelation that Rebecca is – gasp! – pregnant.  Or has a brain tumor, take your pick.  Since Elena was there to take her to the hospital – for a nose bleed – Rebecca has come bearing gifts.  Because nothing says ‘Thank you for helping me utilize the emergency room for a mundane medical nuisance’ like a nice gift basket!  Rebecca hands Elena the gift basket – which looks like it has a big yellow lollipop in it – and obviously smells something that doesn’t agree with her stomach.  After almost gagging twice, Elena figures out that something is wrong.  She points Rebecca towards the bathroom.  As Rebecca is puking, Elena asks her how far along she is.  I have to give Elena props – she had me doubting her after going along with the whole deadly nosebleed thing.  Rebecca tells her that she is nine weeks, but Christopher won’t answer her calls.  She ends this touching seen with ‘Sorry for throwing up in your bathroom’.  That line made me ashamed of the writers.

Meanwhile, Ann is in a park watching children play and gazing at the locket Harris sent her.  She get a phone call that is from Bobby.  I’m a little curious as to why he actually comes up as ‘Bobby Ewing’ on her phone.  Are they not on a first name basis.  My husband’s name comes up in my phone as either his first name or ‘home’.

Oh, that Bobby! 

John Ross is meeting with his aunt Lucy for lunch.  After sharing stories like the wonderful nephew he should be, he tells her that he wants Gary (her husband) to sign over his part of the mineral rights to South Fork.  I honestly zoned out at the end of this conversation.  I think she said she would think about it.

Elena is working on her truck when Christopher stops by.  She tells Christopher that he needs to call Rebecca.  After he hounds her about why, she tells him that Rebecca is pregnant.  In case it was unclear, they want us to be aware that Elena is the perfect woman.  She’s hot, likes to work on trucks, but is also girly.

Give her a pink rag to use.  That will show everyone that she’s girly.

Just when you thought that we were done with the bitch slap heard round the world, the police show up.  They are arresting Bobby for assaulting Harris Ryland.  Bobby is either pissed or constipated.  This look could be either one.

Christopher shows up on Rebecca’s doorstep asking about the pregnancy.  He asks where Tommy is and Rebecca tells him that she told Tommy to leave.  Christopher still thinks she’s up to something.  He then tells her that he wants a paternity test before storming out.

The producers really seem to like these shots from above

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11 Comments

  1. 1
    Enrique's Mole
    Posted July 22, 2012 at 6:37 am

    Great recap – just a small point, though. I believe Gary is Lucy’s father, not husband.

    Somehow I missed that NotMarta was recording the whole exchange with John Ross. The scrapes are going to be the least of his problems!

  2. 2
    Lucy Ewing
    Posted July 22, 2012 at 9:17 am

    enrique is correct (and so is his mole) that Lucy is John Ross’s cousin because she is the daughter of Gary and Val. She just looks old enough to be Gary’s wife. And when did Charlene Tilton’s acting get so over the top. I remember her as not being the greatest actress on the original Dallas but she was never this bad.

    And is John Ross supposed to be this stupid? I mean he goes right up the NotMarta’s dead body in front of all the witnesses, rubs the scratches on his neck, looks all guilty and then speeds off in his flashy car. I don’t see how they are going to make this guy the next JR since at least JR was clever in any situation.

    And will we be seeing more to Rebecca’s nosebleeds or was this supposed to be some new pregnancy detection technique? Is she going to die to leave Christopher to raise the babies alone and Elena helps him? What do you bet the twins are both boys so that in 20 years they can reboot this series again.

  3. 3
    Davis
    Posted July 22, 2012 at 12:00 pm

    Haha I said the same thing about Ann getting a phone call from “bobby Ewing”! I mean I think the audience would know if it said “bobby”, he’s the main freakin character. The thing about twins which can make a pregnancy storyline more dramatic is that carrying multiples tends to have more complications with the delivery and labor etc…so more chance for drama there? Maybe?

    Also, John Ross being taped in the room with Not Marta will probably help him in the long run because the tape would show her being pushed out the window, or whatever, by the other dudes.

    Can they sex Ann up a bit? She wears the drabbest clothing!

  4. 4
    wcsdancer
    Posted July 22, 2012 at 12:50 pm

    My guess is that the young woman with the child in the park tha Ann was watching is Ann’s grown daughter that maybe she gave up (or around the same age), hence her crying and being so sympathetic towards Rebecca.

    I so saw the plot arc, NotMarta is going to be killed and she’ll have John Ross’ DNA under her fingernails. Plus all the witnesses seeing him flee the scene.

    I also didn’t realize one needed to apologize for throwing up in someone’s bathroom. On the rug or the furniture, yes, an apology is in order, but in the bathroom?

  5. 5
    carol
    Posted July 22, 2012 at 4:30 pm

    The lunch meeting between Elena and SueEllen was filled with so much lisping from awful veneers it was like they were trying to speak Parseltongue.

    If Marta hadn’t been tossed off the building, I was sure that she was going to try and claim JohnRoss tried to rape her. But I like the building fall, it was more fitting for her character.

  6. 6
    Chicken Lips
    Posted July 22, 2012 at 9:11 pm

    @wcsdancer – if you didn’t make a mess in my bathroom, you don’t need to apologize for puking in there. If there is even one drop still visible when you are done, not only are you apologizing, you are cleaning it up and mine too when I see it! :)

    I’m glad that they seemed to make the show with the philosophy it was a “one and done” so the story lines seem to be speeding along. I hope the renewal doesn’t make them slow down in season 2.

  7. 7
    Patty
    Posted July 23, 2012 at 8:25 am

    And don’t forget, at the end of the show John Ross was taken away by the police, so this is going to get good! I knew when they focused so much on that couple at the hotel/apartment/wherever he was that someone was going to put two and two together. I wonder if Rebecca is Ann’s daughter? That could be interesting!

  8. 8
    cmw
    Posted July 23, 2012 at 6:45 pm

    Does anyone else think that Marta committed suicide and made it look like Christopher did it? Wouldn’t that be the ultimate revenge? I wouldn’t put it past her cuz we all know she’s cray-cray. Also, we never actually saw the bad guys in her apartment.

  9. 9
    cmw
    Posted July 23, 2012 at 6:46 pm

    I mean John Ross not Christopher.

  10. 10
    Hbgchick
    Posted July 24, 2012 at 6:42 am

    My take – Rebecca and her what’s-his-name-brother (aren’t they twins?) are Ann’s grown children. This would explain Rebecca being pregnant with twins (isn’t it sort of hereditary?) and Ann’s support of Rebecca.

  11. 11
    wcsdancer
    Posted July 24, 2012 at 5:57 pm

    @Chicken Lips, I *always* clean up after myself after puking, especially at someone else’s house! True story. It’s uncouth not to!

    Oooh! Never occurred to me that Rebecca and/or Tommy could be Ann’s!

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