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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Toni" data-source="post: 360047" data-attributes="member: 82">I think Pam shouldn´t have chosen selling to Skeletor just for the money, nor that she was a hypocrite. That wasn´t the problem of that season. The problem is that J.R. almost did nothing once she was settled in Bobby´s armchair. Old J.R. would have planned a big catastrophic deal for her that would have made her look like a joke of a businesswoman. He did it with Gary, Bobby, the whole cartel and Holly Harwood. But what he did instead was setting up that awful Matt Cantrell storyline and just "hint" that he woudn´t care if Pam never came back to Dallas. Dumb dumb dumb. The fact that he was being conned by the Nero woman was anecdotal: the best J.R. was the one who used both hands to sink all his enemies, even better if all at once (the Asian revolution). So probably there were other factors behind the scenes that prevented that to happen (aside from VP´s back injury, that only kept her missing in one episode).Mark Graison´s company seemed to run itself so maybe that´s what they think Pam should be doing too with Ewing Oil. After all, she had a reputation to not commit to any job she ever had... (Store, aerobics, PR at Barnes-Wentworth). IMHO it was worse what they did (not) to Jack. Ok that he wasn´t an executive but in theory he knew about oil like his sister. But TPTB decided to waste him for one long year as a romantic cowboy easy to manipulate by J.R. at the Marinos fiasco. If he had been given more of an edge, then he might have been seen as much more than a Bobby clone.I would love to read an interview in-depth about the making of the Dream Season. It had such a promising, even engaging start (10-12 first episodes) that it was a bit letdown the way it lost gas just when Cantrell entered the scene. At that point, everybody seemed to begin to act out-of-character: divorcee Sue Ellen returns to her old guest room at SF (that was one of the lowest points of her) and dumps Dusty; Pam believes that emeralds may be of interest for an oil company; Jenna goes delusional and thinks "Bobby loved emeralds"; Miss Ellie buys Clayton´s companies anonymously; all of it was painful to watch. Oh and John Ross was used only to publicize the Oreo biscuits...It´s sad to know that everybody left expected good things from the DS, especially Victoria. Probably, the Pam character originally was so strong and appealing that it was hard for the writers to keep up a good storyline for her. They eventually stopped trying. Just my 2 cents... and it only got worse the next year (nitwit Pam dreamed a whole season...)[ATTACH=full]44930[/ATTACH] "We´re having a déjà vu... I wonder why..."</blockquote>

Verification: Who played JR Ewing?