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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kenny Coyote" data-source="post: 193024" data-attributes="member: 102">I don't see a problem with the character responses; they seem fairly in character to me. JR didn't go to the hospital because he thought he couldn't be able to help Bobby there and that since Cliff would be there, a visit would be more destructive than anything - so he decided to talk to Bobby at home about Pam. Miss Ellie started crying when she heard the news, so she certainly reacted, and Sue Ellen, yeah, I guess her response was too understated. I think they may have understated the response from what some were expecting because it was a situation where nothing they could possibly do would cause Pam to recover and come back to Southfork, and the audience knew that. We knew VP was gone from the show, she'd gotten into making TV movies, so why make a big story about getting Pam and bringing her back when we all would have known what the result of that was going to be? Bobby grieved in his way, and we knew what his way was from when Jock died. Bobby remains very cavalier in crisis situations in general - it's just the way he is and doesn't wear his emotions on his sleeve. When Pam left, it wasn't the first time or even the second time she'd left him; she was always flighty, so I think his reaction was in character for him considering that. It was much more of a shock to Christopher that Pam left them, and if you remember, Bobby spent the majority of his time with Christopher at that time to console him as well as he could and explain things the best way he knew how.I see problems with the following two things, regarding season eleven:There was a lack of quality storylines that had begun with season 9, since I consider season 8 the last great Dallas season, and while seasons 9 and 10 dropped in quality some, the quality dropped further and faster after season 10. The other problem was too much change happening too quickly after season 10. All of the sudden they got rid of Victoria Principal, Deborah Shelton and Susan Howard, and the huge character loss people don't mention - the loss of Ewing Oil, which was as much a character as anyone or anything in Dallas - that's way too much change happening way too quickly. Then, since that wasn't enough change for them, they made their biggest rival - Cliff Barnes -their friend, while also getting rid of even more of the remaining Western feel of the show! So I'm not surprised people wondered what happened to their favorite show when they watched season 11.</blockquote>

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