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1984-85: A season of decline
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<blockquote data-quote="Soaplover" data-source="post: 398346" data-attributes="member: 336"><p>Miss Ellie was a ranchers daughter.. she would stand up to Jock and/or JR if anything Ewing Oil related had the potential of affecting anything going on at Southfork. She had nerves of steel and a gentle.. but firm touch when dealing with anyone.</p><p></p><p>The best solution would have been to have reduced Miss Ellie's airtime on the show during the season while the actress was focusing on her health issues.. and perhaps that absence might have lent more credibility to the all the turmoil going on at Southfork and Ewing Oil.. because Miss Ellie was no longer around all the time to talk sense into everyone.</p><p></p><p>However.. the biggest reason why the 1984 to 1985 season was the start of the decline was because the stories were starting to become like a hamster wheel with JR always winning.. JR always cheating.. Sue Ellen always going back to JR or falling off the wagon, etc. There was almost no plot movement whatsoever... so I think killing Bobby off could have been a way to reset the show and given it a new lease of life (which at first.. seemed to happen before the Anjelica Nero and Pam's South American adventure took over in the 2nd half of the dream season).</p><p></p><p>I think losing Afton and Katherine at the start of the season hurt the show. I could understand Katherine leaving.. but I would have kept Afton on for the season because some of the story that Mandy was involved with could have been given to Afton. And it would have kind of made sense due to Afton's previous ties/history to JR and Sue Ellen.. and Afton vs Jamie would have at least been something to make Jamie more variable.</p><p></p><p>On paper, I think having Lucy work at the diner wasn't a bad idea. It could have been used as a way for Lucy to imagine what her life might have been like had she been raised by Val instead of by the Ewings. It would have been a character driven move to get inside Lucy's head and it could have been an effective way to have Lucy figure out what her purpose was in her life and she might have decided to leave Dallas with that purpose in mind.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Soaplover, post: 398346, member: 336"] Miss Ellie was a ranchers daughter.. she would stand up to Jock and/or JR if anything Ewing Oil related had the potential of affecting anything going on at Southfork. She had nerves of steel and a gentle.. but firm touch when dealing with anyone. The best solution would have been to have reduced Miss Ellie's airtime on the show during the season while the actress was focusing on her health issues.. and perhaps that absence might have lent more credibility to the all the turmoil going on at Southfork and Ewing Oil.. because Miss Ellie was no longer around all the time to talk sense into everyone. However.. the biggest reason why the 1984 to 1985 season was the start of the decline was because the stories were starting to become like a hamster wheel with JR always winning.. JR always cheating.. Sue Ellen always going back to JR or falling off the wagon, etc. There was almost no plot movement whatsoever... so I think killing Bobby off could have been a way to reset the show and given it a new lease of life (which at first.. seemed to happen before the Anjelica Nero and Pam's South American adventure took over in the 2nd half of the dream season). I think losing Afton and Katherine at the start of the season hurt the show. I could understand Katherine leaving.. but I would have kept Afton on for the season because some of the story that Mandy was involved with could have been given to Afton. And it would have kind of made sense due to Afton's previous ties/history to JR and Sue Ellen.. and Afton vs Jamie would have at least been something to make Jamie more variable. On paper, I think having Lucy work at the diner wasn't a bad idea. It could have been used as a way for Lucy to imagine what her life might have been like had she been raised by Val instead of by the Ewings. It would have been a character driven move to get inside Lucy's head and it could have been an effective way to have Lucy figure out what her purpose was in her life and she might have decided to leave Dallas with that purpose in mind. [/QUOTE]
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