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<blockquote data-quote="Toni" data-source="post: 225671" data-attributes="member: 82">I always took for granted they planned mid-season finales since they were quite obvious to me, just like mentioned above. The first full season cliffhanger would have been great if the &quot;Survival&quot; scenario had started in the previous episode &quot;Election&quot; and the plane accident had been its ending. Ellie saving Southfork from JR´s greeding claws was quite a bookend to the first half season, though it might have been occurred a few episodes earlier or later.However, after the Who shot JR? phenomenon happened, the divisions of every season in 2 (especially in the years with David Paulsen) were strategically done. You just had to look at the ladies´ hairdos, which changed dramatically. From then on, the second half of seasons started after Lucy´s wedding, the BBQ call about Jock, Miss Ellie threatening with selling Ewing Oil, the announcement of her and Clayton´s wedding, and Jamie´s revelation of her document.I also agree about &quot;Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen&quot; as the clear marker for the end of first half of the Dream, BD´s death for next season, Lisa Alden´s BBQ threat (and Ray &amp; Jenna´s wedding) for season 11, and less clearly, JR &amp; Cally´s second wedding, Bobby finding &quot;Pam&quot; and LeeAnn leaving Ewing Oil in Michelle´s gold-digging sweet hands...So I think this was partly the success of the series narratively, which was also shared by the other Lorimar supersoaps, and not so much by the Spelling duo.Edit to add that, in Spain, the public TV only stopped the airing three times: the first, with &quot;Jenna´s Return&quot; and Bobby getting an ultimatum by Jenna, for the weeks of the Football World Series (or something like that), and then, and final nationwide, after JR´s shooting. A couple of years later it was resumed locally, and it only stopped once, after Bobby´s shooting (!!). Allegedly they had run out of episodes, which as usual was not true.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Toni, post: 225671, member: 82"] I always took for granted they planned mid-season finales since they were quite obvious to me, just like mentioned above. The first full season cliffhanger would have been great if the "Survival" scenario had started in the previous episode "Election" and the plane accident had been its ending. Ellie saving Southfork from JR´s greeding claws was quite a bookend to the first half season, though it might have been occurred a few episodes earlier or later. However, after the Who shot JR? phenomenon happened, the divisions of every season in 2 (especially in the years with David Paulsen) were strategically done. You just had to look at the ladies´ hairdos, which changed dramatically. From then on, the second half of seasons started after Lucy´s wedding, the BBQ call about Jock, Miss Ellie threatening with selling Ewing Oil, the announcement of her and Clayton´s wedding, and Jamie´s revelation of her document. I also agree about "Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen" as the clear marker for the end of first half of the Dream, BD´s death for next season, Lisa Alden´s BBQ threat (and Ray & Jenna´s wedding) for season 11, and less clearly, JR & Cally´s second wedding, Bobby finding "Pam" and LeeAnn leaving Ewing Oil in Michelle´s gold-digging sweet hands... So I think this was partly the success of the series narratively, which was also shared by the other Lorimar supersoaps, and not so much by the Spelling duo. Edit to add that, in Spain, the public TV only stopped the airing three times: the first, with "Jenna´s Return" and Bobby getting an ultimatum by Jenna, for the weeks of the Football World Series (or something like that), and then, and final nationwide, after JR´s shooting. A couple of years later it was resumed locally, and it only stopped once, after Bobby´s shooting (!!). Allegedly they had run out of episodes, which as usual was not true. [/QUOTE]

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