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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Michael Torrance" data-source="post: 72379" data-attributes="member: 719"><p>I also saw Bobby's death like Jock's, and the Pam/JR confrontation to be the show's ultimate journey (after all, it was set up so all the way back in the mini-series). Maybe the show would never go back to the top, but there could have been a satisfying closure and some good posterity for the brand other than the laughing stock it became because of the dream reset. But at the time networks would not have easily been convinced that it was better to do a story justice than to try to recapture the #1 spot with gimmicks. And Larry Hagman sawing off the branch of the producers he did not like made a bad situation worse.</p></blockquote><p></p>