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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Willie Oleson" data-source="post: 331452" data-attributes="member: 8">Most soap episodes end on a cliffhanger anyway, but I think it was the buzz and hype surrounding Who Shot JR?, rather than the scene itself - Julie Grey's death was far more shocking - that made them decide to reserve the more eventful stuff for the season finales.Of course it's very difficult to create  a hype, it's one of those things that happens or doesn't happen.People love quizes and whodunnits and I guess that's what made WSJR? a very interactive storyline. It wasn't particularly groundbreaking, not even then, but it was the first time it was used in a season-long prime time drama series, a format that itself was relatively new.Not that the story wasn't good or exciting, but I feel it was also very much the sum of circumstances which, imho, makes this cliffhanger a little bit overrated.</blockquote>