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Oh, yes. But Victoria's acting had improved so much (really, by Season 6) that Pam still seemed "stronger" because of it... And, y'know, her mid-season plastic surgery.
Oh, yes. But Victoria's acting had improved so much (really, by Season 6) that Pam still seemed "stronger" because of it... And, y'know, her mid-season plastic surgery.
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they’re just plastic surgery fiends down there in South America! Random bandits abduct Pam from camp for a quick facelift even as the major reconstruction of Jock Ewing into Ben Stivers and/or Wes Parmalee had recently reached its conclusion… Dr. Mitchell Cooper would have wielded like the 8th-sharpest scalpel in the average small-town Uruguayan clinic.
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You could see the fatigue setting in even before Bobby left:
- The silly retcon of the Ewing Oil origin story, now with Jason Ewing, and Jock legitimately buying out Digger and his never-before-mentioned brother (wouldn’t Jock have told Ellie this story at some point?).
- The introduction of the Ewing cousins (note to soap opera writers: cousin relationships are generally not as compelling as sibling relationships).
- Miss Elie’s dull new marriage, which added nothing to the show.
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Although I don't view those things as retcons per se, there's no question that there was a bit of a pall over Season 8 -- which I attribute, if not entirely, to the recasting of Miss Ellie. There was a sense that something special had now been ruined.
Also, a series has a natural arc, and DALLAS' was probably seven years (Season 8 in TV talk)... 1978 to 1985.
I'd've hated to have missed Season 10 (although not the dream resolution which opened it). But Bobby's death, and the months leading up to it, had a finality about we even mentioned at the time.
But that was true about all the nighttime soaps by the Spring of 1985 -- a slightly forlorn sense of ambivalent closure.