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<blockquote data-quote="Julia&amp;#039;s Gun" data-source="post: 345454" data-attributes="member: 987">Well the dream season went wrong with the Marinos shipping and Matt Cantrell stories, but I agree it&#039;s a lot better when rewatched now and feels like the show could have kept going without Bobby coming back. I totally agree about JR and Sue-Ellen and Ray and Donna. Their relationships really grew during this season and it really messed things up when they re-set the following yearjust to accomodate Bobby returning.Also agree that the coma storyline could have worked more effectively, keeping him alive but in some remote clinic and then he suddenly wakes up when its time to return and Pam about to remarry.But the ratings of Dallas were starting to suffer well before the dream season - I don&#039;t think they fell drastically until later on, but the decline is often wrongly attributed to the writers/producers of the dream year, largely because Larry wasn&#039;t happy and wanted Bobby back. David Jacobs, the show creator made this point in an interview. Dallas was in a long slow decline from the moment they switched Miss Ellie&#039;s head and started repeating the same storylines over and over. The dream season actually opened the rest of the cast up to explore new directions for the show - and Jock returning&nbsp; instead of Bobby would have potentially livened things up again. We could have had the Jock siding with JR dilemma again, made worse by Miss Ellie now being married to Clayton. Would she have gone back to Jock, or would she have rejected him after all that had happened or resented him for not returnign sooner? Lots of story potential to explore there.So despite the problems mentioned above, I preferred it during my recent re-watch to the following season and Katzman&#039;s return. This I found a real endurance test - matcho storylines like the awful Calhoun stuff that went on and on and Bobby back in Ewing oil was kind of dull to me, like he had run his course. Susan Howard I felt most sorry for, and then they wrote her out without even a proper farewell.I blame Katzman for Dallas&#039; decline, not Philip Capice and the Knots writers, who were writing to save the show by evolving it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Julia's Gun, post: 345454, member: 987"] Well the dream season went wrong with the Marinos shipping and Matt Cantrell stories, but I agree it's a lot better when rewatched now and feels like the show could have kept going without Bobby coming back. I totally agree about JR and Sue-Ellen and Ray and Donna. Their relationships really grew during this season and it really messed things up when they re-set the following yearjust to accomodate Bobby returning. Also agree that the coma storyline could have worked more effectively, keeping him alive but in some remote clinic and then he suddenly wakes up when its time to return and Pam about to remarry. But the ratings of Dallas were starting to suffer well before the dream season - I don't think they fell drastically until later on, but the decline is often wrongly attributed to the writers/producers of the dream year, largely because Larry wasn't happy and wanted Bobby back. David Jacobs, the show creator made this point in an interview. Dallas was in a long slow decline from the moment they switched Miss Ellie's head and started repeating the same storylines over and over. The dream season actually opened the rest of the cast up to explore new directions for the show - and Jock returning instead of Bobby would have potentially livened things up again. We could have had the Jock siding with JR dilemma again, made worse by Miss Ellie now being married to Clayton. Would she have gone back to Jock, or would she have rejected him after all that had happened or resented him for not returnign sooner? Lots of story potential to explore there. So despite the problems mentioned above, I preferred it during my recent re-watch to the following season and Katzman's return. This I found a real endurance test - matcho storylines like the awful Calhoun stuff that went on and on and Bobby back in Ewing oil was kind of dull to me, like he had run his course. Susan Howard I felt most sorry for, and then they wrote her out without even a proper farewell. I blame Katzman for Dallas' decline, not Philip Capice and the Knots writers, who were writing to save the show by evolving it. [/QUOTE]

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