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<blockquote data-quote="stevew" data-source="post: 287378" data-attributes="member: 130"><p>I get your point and agree with you for the most part, but I think I would have spun Gary off - because that way if you ever get the chance you could bring him back.&nbsp; Things get slow for him on Knots Landing, he arrives in Dallas.&nbsp; In fact I would have done the same with Bobby.&nbsp; No need to kill him off (unlike Jock the actor was not dead) - send him to Washington as a U.S. Senator, along with Pam and Cliff&nbsp; and you&#039;ve got a new series based in D.C. on politics.&nbsp; Thus when you want Bobby back, you can bring him back.&nbsp; No dream season.&nbsp; I don&#039;t think sending them away was a bad idea.&nbsp; I think it was a good idea.&nbsp; Then you have all these characters out there ready in the wings to come back as needed.&nbsp; Lucy on a series in NYC, an apartment building on the upper east side with a new group of friends, Knots Landing&#039;s neighborhood in a single building.&nbsp; I think that&#039;s where they were short sited.&nbsp; Where it seems to me Dynasty tried to copy itself, Dallas did not - Knots Landing was way different and so should have been Bobby and Lucy&#039;s shows - with lives of their own but in the same universe.&nbsp; I&#039;d have even sent someone to Falcon Crest, say Donna or Abbey - long before I would have watched them just go away.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="stevew, post: 287378, member: 130"] I get your point and agree with you for the most part, but I think I would have spun Gary off - because that way if you ever get the chance you could bring him back. Things get slow for him on Knots Landing, he arrives in Dallas. In fact I would have done the same with Bobby. No need to kill him off (unlike Jock the actor was not dead) - send him to Washington as a U.S. Senator, along with Pam and Cliff and you've got a new series based in D.C. on politics. Thus when you want Bobby back, you can bring him back. No dream season. I don't think sending them away was a bad idea. I think it was a good idea. Then you have all these characters out there ready in the wings to come back as needed. Lucy on a series in NYC, an apartment building on the upper east side with a new group of friends, Knots Landing's neighborhood in a single building. I think that's where they were short sited. Where it seems to me Dynasty tried to copy itself, Dallas did not - Knots Landing was way different and so should have been Bobby and Lucy's shows - with lives of their own but in the same universe. I'd have even sent someone to Falcon Crest, say Donna or Abbey - long before I would have watched them just go away. [/QUOTE]

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