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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Spells &amp; Karma" data-source="post: 71253" data-attributes="member: 23">You're quite right. As a memorable cliffhanger it was effective. People were talking about it. But once Bobby appeared in the shower that really limited the options for explanations. There weren't many places they could go with it. Why would some lookalike be smiling away in Pam's shower? Or even Bobby himself if he's just come out of a coma?I've seen this suggested a few times over the years, and think it could really have worked. It would certainly have been more plausible than what we were given.Someone with more imagination than me even suggested many events of the dream season could still really have happened. Comatose Bobby dreamt about them having been subliminally fed the information from visitors to his bedside, keeping him up to date with what's been going on.A few seasons before Duffy returned to Dallas, Knots Landing brought back an actor whose character had been definitively killed off. The character's death had been a major part of the previous season's cliffhanger. They were shown on-screen to be very dead - even being seen on a mortuary slab. Characters had discussed the post mortem results in detail.But the actor breezed back onto the show the following season, randomly appearing in a scene without explanation. By season's end, the return was fully accepted by the other characters and - more importantly - the viewers.Yes - it asked the viewer to suspend their disbelief, but it was done with as much credibility as a "back from the dead" can be done.The explanation given for their return is almost secondary. I won't even mention it here. But the main reason it worked is because it was carefully plotted into the show and wasn't hurried. We were fed the information piecemeal and the characters were as shocked and incredulous as the audience. And all those doubts were laid to rest. The ridiculousness of the situation became a driving force for the plot. In other words, it was character driven.But then the approach of the two shows in general is quite different. Cliffhangers were a Dallas hallmark. I can understand why they'd want to get a big wham/bam moment out of it and create a buzz. After all, the serendipitous "let's just shoot the bastard" approach had worked out well for the show before. I can understand, too, the need for secrecy, but if more people had been involved and more time taken to plot it out, chances are someone might have pointed out how limiting the shower scene was.Me too. That was fuelled, I think, by Duffy's credit at the end of Blast From The Past.</blockquote>

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