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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Snarky Oracle!" data-source="post: 329773" data-attributes="member: 57984">I liked, more or less, the Jeanne O'Brien story arc -- although I think the reason it almost worked was because she turned out to not be Pam in the end... And while I'm against re-casting core characters in primetime shows, at least Pam's surgery would have made it more acceptable (just as Steven's re-casting on DYNASTY made more since because of his surgery -- if he hadn't been re-cast with such a frozen actor).I also never liked April and Bobby together, mostly because it seemed forced (Katzman "liked" Sheree Wilson, and that's why it happened) and they had to change April too much to shoe-horn her into a Southfork wife.... People always think I'm off-base on this, but I always want too see Bobby and Afton together in a serious way -- I can just taste it... I didn't mind JR and Cally together short-term, because their mismatch status was intentional.Season 13 could have been one of the great seasons of DALLAS and might indeed have been had Katzman pulled Paulsen back in after DYNASTY ended (it sounds like Katzman might have tried, but Paulsen was exhausted and had contracted pneumonia -- but it's a pity that didn't happen, as the last two years of DALLAS would have been far more memorable). Lady Jessica's murder spree would have been done much more like a gothic horror movie (instead of the campy disposable stuff they threw us) as she had been blackmailing the Dallas cartel for decades over Dusty's parentage (she'd been sleeping with them all in her youth)... David Jacobs' idea that Miss Ellie have her own TV chat show seems ideal for Season 13 --- to counter Cliff's exploitation of the oil tanker disaster, JR takes his mama on The Roy Ralston Show and Miss Ellie is such a hit that the station offers her her own show when Ralston's program finally goes national -- JR thinks it's a great idea at first while Clayton is instinctively wary; but once Ellie starts imbuing her show with liberal politics and pro-environmental rhetoric, the cartel (whom Jessie's yet to slaughter) goes crazy and JR is pressured to put a stop to his mother's reign as the new queen of Texas talk television. (Larry said he wanted Miss Ellie to get hooked on cocaine during an affair with her young chauffeur -- but I'd be satisfied with her chauffeur spiking her make-up with coke so Ellie has an on-air seizure and almost dies --- end of talk show, but she reveals to Clayton in the hospital that Digger Barnes might have been JR's biological father, which a drunken Clayton then spews at JR in the living room near the end of the  season, leaving everyone predictably shocked).Later on, after Jeanne is out of the picture, we can learn she was hired by Wendell (who never actually went to prison), and not JR, to distract Bobby for some reason. And as Bobby and Cliff come to suspect Pam might possibly be dead, they learn she may indeed have become symptomatic for adult-onset neurofibromatosis (so Hutch McKinney may not have been her daddy after all -- and Rebecca may have been mistaken or lied!)And JR, now convinced that he is brother to both Pam and Cliff, has himself committed to the mental hospital not just to access Lady Montford's signature but also as a depressed self-destructive gesture to rid himself of his dreaded Barnesishness.<img src="https://i.pinimg.com/736x/e0/30/b9/e030b944474abdab94442d8b621a5cfb--black-widow-spider-spiders.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>

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