After Pam Ewing's departure who should Bobby have hooked up with?

[Luke_Krebbs_Ewing]

As we all know Victoria Principal left the show at the end of (DVD) season ten.

The show then had Bobby have a few dalliances with a few different female characters, Tammy, Lisa Alden, Kay Lloyd, Jeanne O'Brien (the Pam lookalike) and Tracy Lawton (Carter McKay's daughter) before he eventually hooked up with April Stevens.

However, which of these different ladies was actually the better choice for Bobby to hook up with?

Although I liked April at the time, with the benefit of hindsight she wasn't the best character to put with Bobby.

Who would you have liked Bobby to get together with, because Victoria Principal was not about to come back to Dallas?

 

[Taylor Bennett Jr.]

Susanna Hoffs of the Bangles!

 

[Luke_Krebbs_Ewing]

Susanna Hoffs of the Bangles!

She bears an uncanny resemblance to Deborah Shelton who played Mandy Winger!

 

[Taylor Bennett Jr.]

She bears an uncanny resemblance to Deborah Shelton who played Mandy Winger!

but way hotter! Maybe a bit more like early Pam in personality and vibe.

(and I admit it's quite possible I'm trying to live vicariously through Bobby here, circa the time of Pam's departure!)

 

[Pammy P]

None of them, they all did not fit his character - Dallas was Bobby & Pamela, he should have looked the world for her! The rest were fly-by-nights, common and skutters! If I had to choose would have been Kay LLoyd.!

 

[Luke_Krebbs_Ewing]

None of them, they all did not fit his character - Dallas was Bobby & Pamela, he should have looked the world for her! The rest were fly-by-nights, common and skutters! If I had to choose would have been Kay LLoyd.!

I missed Pam badly too but unfortunately Victoria Principal was done with Dallas.

She wanted to move on and wasn't about to come back. Kay was a lovely character & the actress was very pretty too.

 

[tommie]

He should've been forced into male prostitution after the Ewings goes broke and forced to escort all of miss Ellie's elderly friends.

 

[Snarky Oracle!]

None of them, they all did not fit his character - Dallas was Bobby & Pamela, he should have looked the world for her! The rest were fly-by-nights, common and skutters! If I had to choose would have been Kay LLoyd.!

But since we know Victoria was never coming back, should Bobby have just reclaimed his virginity and lived as a monk burrowed inside one of those rooms with a window on all four walls at Southfork?

I agree he should have gone looking for her at various times. And I also agree that Kay Lloyd would have made a good new girlfriend, at least for a while.

I actually liked Tracey Lawton as a character (not her stupid brother, Tommy, who was just brought in to sabotage the impact of the 'Who Killed Roger Grimes?' mystery plot on DYNASTY which Katzman's deputy, Paulsen, had escaped to) and her issues, and the repeated Romeo & Juliet dynamic was interesting. But DALLAS was no longer listening to nature.

Of course, I've always said I wanted Afton and Bobby to pair up --- people think I'm nuts, but I can just taste it!

But April should never have had a serious relationship with Bobby -- let alone marry him; they had to completely change her character to do it! And just because Katzman "liked" Sheree.

 

[Luke_Krebbs_Ewing]

But since we know Victoria was never coming back, should Bobby have just reclaimed his virginity and lived as a monk burrowed inside one of those rooms with a window on all four walls at Southfork?

I agree he should have gone looking for her at various times. And I also agree that Kay Lloyd would have made a good new girlfriend, at least for a while.

I actually liked Tracey Lawton as a character (not her stupid brother, Tommy, who was just brought in to sabotage the impact of the 'Who Killed Roger Grimes?' mystery plot on DYNASTY which Katzman's deputy, Paulsen, had escaped to) and her issues, and the repeated Romeo & Juliet dynamic was interesting. But DALLAS was no longer listening to nature.

Of course, I've always said I wanted Afton and Bobby to pair up --- people think I'm nuts, but I can just taste it!

But April should never have had a serious relationship with Bobby -- let alone marry him; they had to completely change her character to do it! And just because Katzman "liked" Sheree.

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April & Bobby just didn't work.

As you said they completely changed the character in order to shoehorn her into being the next Mrs. Bobby James Ewing.

I can't believe how gullible I was when those episodes aired during the show's original run.

She just wasn't believable as Bobby's second wife at all. What on Earth was Leonard Katzman thinking?

 

[tommie]

But April should never have had a serious relationship with Bobby -- let alone marry him; they had to completely change her character to do it! And just because Katzman "liked" Sheree.

Eh, I think April and Bobby could've worked if they kept her original gold-digging persona as she could act as a trigger for Bobby to seriously pursue Ewing Oil and everything around it - while Pam always kept Bobby back, April would've pushed Bobby forward. It at least would've been a change in dynamic.

 

[Snarky Oracle!]

Eh, I think April and Bobby could've worked if they kept her original gold-digging persona as she could act as a trigger for Bobby to seriously pursue Ewing Oil and everything around it - while Pam always kept Bobby back, April would've pushed Bobby forward. It at least would've been a change in dynamic.

Well, the Bobby-married-a-grasping-bitch dynamic would be a switch. I'd accept it, other than what they did with April.

 

[tommie]

Well, the Bobby-married-a-grasping-bitch dynamic would be a switch. I'd accept it, other than what they did with April.

Plus, it probably would end with someone murdering April eventually since she'd be incredibly annoying while enjoying the Ewing fortune (probably Lady Jessica framing Miss Ellie).

 

[Barbara Fan]

Bobby and Holly Harwood - at least she could act too!

or Bobby and Jenna - Didnt mind them during S6/7 original

Everyone after was mg:

 

[the-lost-son]

I watched the seasons after Pam's departure once and won't watch them again. Her departure changed the structure of the show on so many levels and it never recovered.

Bobby was the white knight Romeo and Pam Dallas' Juliet. They were pure and innocent compared to their family and only kept apart by circumstances.

I'd prefer Bobby to stay single. But he got so much money the producer needed him in the middle of the action. If I had to pick a partner it would have been Jenna. They had at least a history and somehow it would keep the character of Bobby intact. He had such a longing for more offspring. The storylines would have been conflicts with Ray who eventually gets back together with Donna.
(Later I'd expand the Wade family with some relatives who might collude with JR/Cliff.)

It was uncharacteristic for Bobby who had a new love interest constantly after the many years we saw him with Pam and Jenna only.

But I admit it's difficult to say the least. They wrote themselves into a corner Similar to Blake Carrington on Dynasty after Krystle left.

 

[DallasFanForever]

Jenna would’ve been my choice for Bobby post-Pam. They had a lot of history to go on, something he didn’t have much of with anyone else that followed. My second choice would’ve been Phyllis. I know she wasn’t the most dynamic character but I always got the impression there could’ve been much more there than friendship had it been explored.

 

[Mustard]

Jenna would’ve been my choice for Bobby post-Pam. They had a lot of history to go on, something he didn’t have much of with anyone else that followed. My second choice would’ve been Phyllis. I know she wasn’t the most dynamic character but I always got the impression there could’ve been much more there than friendship had it been explored.

I think Bobby and Jenna were okay before Naldo stopped the wedding, but they were never the same afterwards, not in the short period after Jenna got out of jail before Bobby's death nor in Season 10 DVD. I also think Priscilla Presley started out pretty well when she first came onto Dallas in Season 7 DVD, but got worse and worse the longer that she stayed in the series. As early as Jenna's trial, I think the negatives outweighed the positives as far as Jenna was concerned.

Pam and Mark were much better as a couple than Bobby and Jenna, in my opinion.

I do think Bobby and Phyllis would have been better than what they ended up doing post-Pam.

 

[Snarky Oracle!]

Pam's ghost.

She dies of neurofibromatosis and then comes back to life, perpetually shrouded in golden light like a spectral veil, dialing up her ex with her holy landline phone from heaven, haunting Bobby romantically for All Eternity..... until he marries that smug soccer-mom bitch Ann.... and then it's war!!

 

[Jimmy Todd]

Bobby and Pam were meant for each other. After he had a few romances with the women mentioned, he should have been with no one. For the rest of the series women could have pursued him, but he should have rejected all of them. JR would bring this up with him when they were stuck in the elevator. Bobby would say, "I've accepted that if I can't be with Pam, I'll be alone. Pam was the one." It would have added another tragic layer to Pam's departure, and made Bobby actually a more compelling figure.

 

[Taylor Bennett Jr.]

But since we know Victoria was never coming back, should Bobby have just reclaimed his virginity and lived as a monk burrowed inside one of those rooms with a window on all four walls at Southfork?

I agree he should have gone looking for her at various times. And I also agree that Kay Lloyd would have made a good new girlfriend, at least for a while.

I actually liked Tracey Lawton as a character (not her stupid brother, Tommy, who was just brought in to sabotage the impact of the 'Who Killed Roger Grimes?' mystery plot on DYNASTY which Katzman's deputy, Paulsen, had escaped to) and her issues, and the repeated Romeo & Juliet dynamic was interesting. But DALLAS was no longer listening to nature.

Of course, I've always said I wanted Afton and Bobby to pair up --- people think I'm nuts, but I can just taste it!

But April should never have had a serious relationship with Bobby -- let alone marry him; they had to completely change her character to do it! And just because Katzman "liked" Sheree.

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I’m on board with the Bobby and Afton idea! I can’t quite picture what their scenes together would be like, but it’s intriguing.

 

[DallasFanForever]

"I've accepted that if I can't be with Pam, I'll be alone. Pam was the one." It would have added another tragic layer to Pam's departure, and made Bobby actually a more compelling figure.

I’m inclined to agree with this. No matter who we pick, Pam will always be the best choice. Bobby choosing to stay alone the rest of his life would’ve made him that much more sympathetic. Is it realistic? No, but it adds to the tragedy of it all.

I’m on board with the Bobby and Afton idea! I can’t quite picture what their scenes together would be like, but it’s intriguing.

I find this one intriguing as well. They really didn’t have a lot of scenes together so there’s not much to go on perhaps but I always felt they had good chemistry when they were in a scene together. Would it have worked? I don’t know but it definitely would’ve been interesting to see how it would unfold.