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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Crimson" data-source="post: 445540" data-attributes="member: 5079">Killing a major-ish character can be dramatically impactful and trigger some storylines, but the tradeoff of course is losing any future potential that character had.  Digger and Kristen were spent characters.  Digger was a broken down old drunk and Kristen was an exposed schemer with no power; I don't think there was that much more the writers could have done with them.Rebecca and Katherine, though, had so much potential for future storylines.   I think having Rebecca in a near fatal accident and lingering at death's door for a few weeks could have served the same function, while saving her for future plots.   Her threat to break the Ewings and her attempts at rallying the Cartel could have been an entire season.</blockquote>