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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Snarky Oracle!" data-source="post: 368049" data-attributes="member: 57984">"Speed is of the essence" shouldn't mean one 3-minute scene.Paulsen is a company man and very aware of workplace politics and is careful with what he says. But had he been producing DALLAS by himself, he would never have used the dream explanation -- no matter what he says. There are reasons Paulsen wanted to leave DALLAS even before he got the offer to take over another show. (And likely reasons he didn't want to go back to DALLAS later).David Jacobs says he would have used a different explanation and at the time told Lenny he thought the dream resolution was a terrible idea; Katzman supposedly challenged him to come up with another explanation, but I doubt Jacobs really tried: Katzman wanted to use it, not because "it's the only way to bring Bobby back" but because Katzman was dissing the interim writers and their admittedly-flawed plotlines.You're not alone.Don't forget what J.R. said shortly after he was shot: "I'm gonna cut Bobby out even if I have to destroy Ewing Oil to do it!" (or words to that effect). I don't know who wrote that line (or who's credited on screen for the episode) but it certainly seems to reflect Katzman's "that show is mine, goddamn it!" attitude about DALLAS.<img src="https://i.pinimg.com/originals/86/cc/b6/86ccb630a19632cde64de6e311b46a63.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />... and nothing Peter Dunne ever did in the maudlin, soapy dream season was as bad as what Katzman did to DALLAS, certainly in the last two or three years of the program... So what's the point??I love the 1986-87 season. But after 1988 or '89, it might have been nice had DALLAS obtained another show runner (like a Paulsen or somebody) with Katzman ailing and only able to function as an off-the-set consultant while he convalesced... but talk about yer dreams!Reportedly, Kercheval and BBG didn't like the dream resolution either -- but they weren't verbal about it publicly. (BBG allegedly was angry at Larry for the fiasco). Not so with Susan Howard, who criticized the dream explanation in interviews. And Katzman must have indeed been pretty snarkily vengeful -- dressing her in black under the blazing Texas sun for the Southfork wedding and his having Donna stay in "the Arlington suite" while in Washington, D.C... And then she was fired and written out a year early, given that the Ewings' connections in Washington were necessary for another season.Ah, politics.I know people hate this idea, too, but the Federal Witness Protection Program scenario, explained cleverly in a single episode, was the only way they could do it. Not because it's great and unproblematic, but it's the only explanation that could occur in real life, improbably though it also may be.If they used the dream, it logically had to be comatose Bobby's.</blockquote>

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