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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mustard" data-source="post: 132436" data-attributes="member: 46">From a creative standpoint, it would have been better if they hadn't bothered with bringing Bobby back. I really enjoyed the dream season, but it could have been even better still from a creative standpoint if they had gotten Pam deeper embroiled in Ewing Oil against J.R. instead of stepping away from it altogether, and if they had had Jack involved at Ewing Oil as the middle moral force in being a more amoral and in control person compared to Bobby yet still largely opposed to J.R. by sentiment. By keeping Jack largely out of the Ewing Oil storylines, and getting Pam to step away from it, it didn't build great plot lines for the next 1-2 years the way it could have been done, but then they were planning on pressing the reset button back to Swansong anyway at some point late in the season. After the dream, there was all this "Dallas is a man's show" stuff going on, and Dack Rambo was a big political loser with his days on the show numbered despite his temporary bumping up to Main Starring status which painted a false picture of the real situation.Shows develop over time by moving on into the future, and looking for new creativity. By bringing back Bobby from the dead, they were searching for a past that had become stale in the season where Bobby died, and killed off the new dynamics completely.</blockquote>