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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kenny Coyote" data-source="post: 219831" data-attributes="member: 102">Thank you [USER=237]@Lastkidpicked[/USER].Yes, Pam and Bobby as a couple were the original central premise for the whole show! They are a man and a woman who come from families who have such resentment towards each other that their families are feuding with each other; it is very Shakespearean. They then made JR's role much bigger, making him the character who is featured more than any other, but Pam and Bobby remained in crucial roles. They're the couple that was featured the most and what makes them unique as that with all the animosity and bitterness surrounding them, they are the beacon of hope in the show, that overwhelmingly positive element that is based on the idea that they love each other so much, nothing can keep them apart.The conflict that JR and Cliff and other characters are continually causing makes the show very entertaining and interesting to watch, but the storylines they're involved in are usually very negative situations. Bobby and Pam's marriage is the contrast to that -  the light inside the dark. Take that away and things get very bleak. Some viewers don't mind a show being like that as long as the story stays exciting and they did keep the stories exciting even after Pam left Bobby in season six, but for other viewers there does need to be that contrast of having a strong  positive element in the show too so that it balances things out.They didn't even do it in a way where it seemed justified. For Bobby and Pam to have weathered every storm and then to have them break up because the pilot of Rebecca's plane and the pilot of another plane managed to collide with each other and have Pam blame Bobby for it was beneath her, or it should have been. Bobby had been there for her when she was extremely difficult to live with, when she was suicidal, when she was depressed because she desperately wanted a baby and Bobby came through for her time an time again, doing whatever Pam needed. Then the first time Bobby really needs her support, when he's the one who needs something vital to him, she bails!That's not the kind of couple Pam and Bobby were supposed to be and certainly not what their fans wanted them to be. They took that one incredibly admirable trait - a love that could withstand anything, and reduced it to something much less by having Pam blame Bobby for something he had no control over. Then they further tarnish it by having Pam go on a vacation to France with another man. After breaking up with the man who was supposed to be the love of her life, that instead of her being inconsolable with grief, Pam feels like flying to France with Mark Graison, showed terrible judgement on the part of the people writing the story. To do that to that couple  - Bobby and Pam - a couple the show had built so much value in that they were probably the most beloved couple on TV at that time, was like killing the goose that lays the golden egg.</blockquote>

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