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<blockquote data-quote="Kenny Coyote" data-source="post: 160524" data-attributes="member: 102">Decimate the Ewing family? For what reason? Why give the series a bad ending? I hate bad endings. I didn&#039;t like Conundrum. The audience wouldn&#039;t want to see their favorite TV family decimated.I agree with you about not bringing Patrick Duffy back. I wouldn&#039;t have brought Bobby back either. It killed their credibility. I would have thought the dream season would have hurt the ratings more than it did. As it was it still surprisingly pulled an 18.6. Shows would like to be getting that rating now wouldn&#039;t they?&nbsp; That big audience is exactly why they wouldn&#039;t &quot;send Dallas off into the sunset&quot; at that time. There was still way too much money to be made. There would have been a lot more too if they hadn&#039;t changed JR from a winner into a loser. That was just bizarre! That contributed to a rapid decline in what had been still a good sized audience. When JR was doing well Dallas was doing well. He was to Dallas what in sports you&#039;d call the franchise player. As goes the franchise so goes the organization.I wouldn&#039;t have had Bobby leave control of Christopher&#039;s share if Ewing Oil to Pam either because the battle for Ewing Oil is what broke up their marriage. As Pam said she didn&#039;t have the stomach for it. Having to go to work with JR every day is the last thing Pam would have wanted to do. It&#039;s cruel to put Pam in a situation she&#039;d hate. Her attitude was, and this is a quote: &quot;How much money do we have to have&quot;?&nbsp; That&#039;s one way of thinking I suppose, but it&#039;s a horrible mindset for a woman who would be one of two people running a multi billion dollar oil company. If Pam didn&#039;t want to make as much money as she could, she couldn&#039;t be helping run Ewing Oil. She&#039;d be a liability. Besides she had no expertise. She&#039;s not remotely qualified for the job. Competitors would run roughshod over her any chance they got. Cliff couldn&#039;t help her. He had his own company so that&#039;s a conflict of interest. Same with Mark Graison. I&#039;m sure Ewing Oil&#039;s competitors would have loved to &quot;help run Ewing Oil.&#039;&nbsp; They&#039;d help run it alright. Run it into the ground! That&#039;s why any judge would rule it a conflict of interest.If they&#039;d kept Bobby dead I see Pam out for vengeance against Katherine, just as JR would be. It puts Pam and JR on the same side interestingly enough.&nbsp; Christopher is a Ewing too. Pam couldn&#039;t very well go to war against her son&#039;s last remaining relatives. Imagine their conversations when Christopher got older. &quot;Your sister killed my daddy so you reacted by going to war against my daddy&#039;s family&quot;?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kenny Coyote, post: 160524, member: 102"] Decimate the Ewing family? For what reason? Why give the series a bad ending? I hate bad endings. I didn't like Conundrum. The audience wouldn't want to see their favorite TV family decimated. I agree with you about not bringing Patrick Duffy back. I wouldn't have brought Bobby back either. It killed their credibility. I would have thought the dream season would have hurt the ratings more than it did. As it was it still surprisingly pulled an 18.6. Shows would like to be getting that rating now wouldn't they? That big audience is exactly why they wouldn't "send Dallas off into the sunset" at that time. There was still way too much money to be made. There would have been a lot more too if they hadn't changed JR from a winner into a loser. That was just bizarre! That contributed to a rapid decline in what had been still a good sized audience. When JR was doing well Dallas was doing well. He was to Dallas what in sports you'd call the franchise player. As goes the franchise so goes the organization. I wouldn't have had Bobby leave control of Christopher's share if Ewing Oil to Pam either because the battle for Ewing Oil is what broke up their marriage. As Pam said she didn't have the stomach for it. Having to go to work with JR every day is the last thing Pam would have wanted to do. It's cruel to put Pam in a situation she'd hate. Her attitude was, and this is a quote: "How much money do we have to have"? That's one way of thinking I suppose, but it's a horrible mindset for a woman who would be one of two people running a multi billion dollar oil company. If Pam didn't want to make as much money as she could, she couldn't be helping run Ewing Oil. She'd be a liability. Besides she had no expertise. She's not remotely qualified for the job. Competitors would run roughshod over her any chance they got. Cliff couldn't help her. He had his own company so that's a conflict of interest. Same with Mark Graison. I'm sure Ewing Oil's competitors would have loved to "help run Ewing Oil.' They'd help run it alright. Run it into the ground! That's why any judge would rule it a conflict of interest. If they'd kept Bobby dead I see Pam out for vengeance against Katherine, just as JR would be. It puts Pam and JR on the same side interestingly enough. Christopher is a Ewing too. Pam couldn't very well go to war against her son's last remaining relatives. Imagine their conversations when Christopher got older. "Your sister killed my daddy so you reacted by going to war against my daddy's family"? [/QUOTE]

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