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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kenny Coyote" data-source="post: 135863" data-attributes="member: 102">Regarding Pam's "atrocious" scene with Christopher where he asks about his adoption, are you referring to the following scene scene? It's the scene in which Pam tries to make Christopher feel better about it by saying that biological parents have to accept the baby who is born to them but not adoptive parents. Adoptive parents get their pick of all the babies who have been born and out of all those babies, she and Bobby chose Christopher.I ask you this because I wouldn't call that scene an atrocious treatment of the Pam character. It's true that Pam exaggerates an awful lot by saying adoptive parents have their pick of all the babies who have been born. First of all, most babies aren't put up for adoption at all. Second, of the babies who are put up for adoption, Bobby nd Pam hardly had their pick of all those babies. As a nmatter of fact, they weren't given a pick of any of those babies because they were still on the waiting list. Then Bobby bought Christopher. Yes, he actually bought rather than adopted Christopher. Later they did adopt him but that was several months after they bought him. So it was never a situation where Pam and Bobby were presented with even 10 or 12 babies and given their choice of which baby they wanted to adopt. So Pam exaggerated a hell of a lot to Christopher in response to his question. Technically she lied, but it was a white lie. It wasn't a lie that would hurt Christopher; it just was designed to make him feel better which is an admirable intention. I wouldn't call that an atrocious treatment of the character of Pam and I'm wondering why you called it that, or were you referring to some other scene which was atrocious?By the way, Rove, while I'm asking you questions, there's something else that fits in well with the subject of this thread that I'd like your opinion on. Suppose, just hypothetically, that they had gone ahead and killed the Pam character by saying she died in the collision and resulting massive explosion at the end of season 10. Then suppose that during the break between season 11 and season 12, they'd gotten a phone call from Victoria Principal in which she said to them that her movie career wasn't turning out as she'd hoped, and she wanted to return to Dallas. If that happened and they decided to bring her back by calling season 11 a dream, and that the dream actually began with Pam was driving home from the doctor's office, almost getting in an accident, and then actually getting into that awful collision with the oil truck. So the end of season 10 and all of season 11 would be someone's dream. They'd be repeating what they did when they found out Patrick Duffy wanted to return. The downside is of course the reaction by the audience to yet another dream season! The upside is they get back Victoria Principal. In your opinion would it have been worth it to bring Victoria back if that's how they were going to do it?</blockquote>

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