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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Spooky Owl!" data-source="post: 422317" data-attributes="member: 57984">I must confess, I never caught it.The actors were apparently told different things (a not uncommon practice). Paulsen later said Wes was not supposed to be Jock, but the brilliance of the storyline was that they threw enough red herring out there that the audience came to their own conclusions as to whether Wes was or wasn't really Jock, and assumed that those varying conclusions were the self-evident fact.The ambiguity was the point. (Although Parmalee's sudden departure was a bit jarring at the time).Wes Parmalee, even if he wasn't Jock, certainly represented the Ghost of Jock. And the family's reaction to him, and the possibility of who he might be and how it might affect them, was the motive for the tale. So the Wes Parmalee plotline was at the epicenter of All DALLAS Was All About. The patriarch had been, one way or another, séanced. And DALLAS was soon put to bed (even though it continued on for four more years, by now an anachronism). (As an aside, I always want Ellie to pass away at the end of her final season, and to have Clayton & Ray having a beer in a local Braddock tavern a few episodes later, Clayton depressed over the loss of his wife, during which Ray shows him a clipping of an obituary listing from an obscure Canadian newspaper, citing the death of Wes Parmalee (dying the same way Ellie did -- I always envision a throw from a horse) which Smithfield & Bennett located. Farlow scoffs about "oh, that old faker...!" and the subject changes. Most viewers probably wouldn't notice much the reference to this long-gone character who hadn't been mentioned for years, but more astute fans might pick up on the weird synchronicity... "I'll see you again someday").<img src="https://c8.alamy.com/comp/GGK68E/dallas-die-bombe-platzt-eleanor-ewing-farlow-barbara-bel-geddes-und-GGK68E.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 736px" /></blockquote>

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