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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Werewillie Oleson" data-source="post: 408132" data-attributes="member: 8">Yes, I think I know what you mean. It's not that they wiped out a whole season of soap, the real problem is that they didn't - because they couldn't.The dream discussions always focus on the story and the (lack of) plausibility but now I'm beginning to see that it could be much more than that.Going backwards and pretending that nothing has happened is actually very common in soap, it allows the characters to stay in the same(-ish) position and experience a lot of misery all over again.But something as drastic as the death of Bobby Ewing gave the viewers a taste of "alternative" soap, even if most of it was crap.The crap actually makes it easier to ignore the storylines and uncharacteristic behaviour, but what you can't forget is that they showed a different way of "doing Dallas".It's in our nature to explore the "new", not because we want to but because we can. Our free will is not as free as we like to think it is.DALLAS was destroyed by the Human Condition. That's powerful stuff.</blockquote>