Even youtube Won't Recognize The Dream

[ChrisSumner]

I just re-watched this season (I watch on Amazon Prime which has all the seasons) and the season itself had it's moments, but when it ended I found it difficult to get into the next season because they were going back to storylines that had already been dealt with the previous year. In real time it may not have been as bad, but since I'm binge watching it felt like just yesterday so it took me a minute to start to enjoy the following season. The next time I watch I'll probably either skip it or only watch highlights.

 

[Mustard]

I just re-watched this season (I watch on Amazon Prime which has all the seasons) and the season itself had it's moments, but when it ended I found it difficult to get into the next season because they were going back to storylines that had already been dealt with the previous year. In real time it may not have been as bad, but since I'm binge watching it felt like just yesterday so it took me a minute to start to enjoy the following season. The next time I watch I'll probably either skip it or only watch highlights.

But what from Seasons 10-14 is worth doing that for? Maybe B.D. Calhoun and the Justice Department storylines in Season 10 DVD, but that's about it.

 

[stevew]

And if I’m not mistaken, that was the end of Knots Landing ever referring to anything about Dallas ever again.

unfortunately.

 

[Billy Wall]

unfortunately.

They certainly couldn’t bring up Bobby again considering Gary mourned his “death.”

 

[Mustard]

They certainly couldn’t bring up Bobby again considering Gary mourned his “death.”

No need for inverted commas around death in regards to the Knots Landing universe. Bobby died there. Knots Landing put a distance between themselves and Dallas after the summer of 1986 because Bobby was back alive again on Dallas, and Knots weren't prepared to do any kind of reset like Dallas did. If Bobby had never died, then Gary would not have left Empire Valley to go to Bobby's funeral, so Greg and Abby wouldn't have been able to plot behind his back to the extent that they did in his absence. And then there's Valene's son being named Bobby, which came right after Bobby's death on Dallas.

In many ways, it made things easier, as the two shows could now end any more co-operation for storyline or character crossovers and just focus on their own shows. Funnily enough though, while Knots rarely mentioned Dallas related stuff again, Dallas seemed to mention Gary more after the dream than before it for some reason.

 

[stevew]

They certainly couldn’t bring up Bobby again considering Gary mourned his “death.”

could have made mention he had been in a coma and thought he was dead but turned out not to be. It was a soap after all. Could have worked better than the crap I’d a Dream season.

 

[Seaviewer]

I found it difficult to get into the next season because they were going back to storylines that had already been dealt with the previous year. In real time it may not have been as bad,

It was just as bad in real time. The excitement of Bobby's return wore off quickly once it was realised that the whole year had been wiped away.

could have made mention he had been in a coma and thought he was dead but turned out not to be.

I agree that that would have been better explanation but Knots couldn't really use it unless it had been established on Dallas first.

 

[Mustard]

It was just as bad in real time. The excitement of Bobby's return wore off quickly once it was realised that the whole year had been wiped away.
I agree that that would have been better explanation but Knots couldn't really use it unless it had been established on Dallas first.

Yes, the biggest damage was the storylines reset, rather than Bobby's return per se.

What did people expect at the time, though? They couldn't exactly bring Bobby back in that scene with the shower and him and Pam talking about the dream, only to then breathlessly cut to the previous cliffhanger of a grieving Jack after Jamie was burned to a crisp in her car by one of Angelica Nero's bombs, followed by Sue Ellen getting the blast of Angelica's second bomb in J.R.'s office at the Ewing Oil building.

 

[Luke_Krebbs_Ewing]

I admit, when I watched the entire season on Dailymotion, I totally skipped the Dream Season. It’s pretty much a waste of time because it didn’t happen. Is it even canon?

Of course it's still canon. It's still Dallas.

Anyone who skips that season needs spanked most severely on the bottom for doing so!

And I am unaninous in that!

 

[Toni]

Of course it's still canon. It's still Dallas.

Anyone who skips that season needs spanked most severely on the bottom for doing so!

And I am unaninous in that!

I know someone who would offer to do so...

 

[Seaviewer]

They couldn't exactly bring Bobby back in that scene with the shower and him and Pam talking about the dream, only to then breathlessly cut to the previous cliffhanger

Well, of course, the answer is that it shouldn't have been a dream at all. The third cliffhanger should just have been Bobby (or is it just someone who looks like him?) alive and well - anywhere else at all really.

 

[Chris2]

As much as I think they bungled what happened during the dream, I’ll still take it over any season after Pam’s exit.

 

[Luke_Krebbs_Ewing]

I'm just wondering if it's still skipped today by YouTube in 2021?

 

[Seaviewer]

I'm just wondering if it's still skipped today by YouTube in 2021?

Yes, it is. As I noted in another thread, I've had trouble with the double-sided discs of seasons 7 and 8 so I purchased the episodes on YouTube. I hope that my season 9 set plays okay when I get to it because YouTube doesn't have it.