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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kenny Coyote" data-source="post: 23308" data-attributes="member: 102">My comments on results: House Divided should have won because it led to the record that the Who Shot JR episode set very early into the next season. There was absolutely no cliffhanger ending that had people talking anywhere near as much as "Who Shot JR." It's not even close, speaking strictly from an objective position. It was the first time that any Ewing had ever been shot to made a cliffhanger and what made it so intriguing is there were practically a dozen people who might have been the shooter because SO MANY people were furious at JR at that particular time. No Dallas cliffhanger ever managed to draw the amount of viewers the following season for the episode which showed the resolution of the suspenseful ending of the previous season.END GAME was a fine ending but it was, for one thing, a bit derivative of A HOUSE DIVIDED - a season ending at night in the Ewing Oil office with the last Ewing son working that night the only one there besides the shoot of course. Both cliffhangers involved the possiblity that we had just seen a Ewing son killed. Both resulted in situations where the victim might have a permanent handicap - paralysis for JR and blindness for Bobby so I placed it 4th for being good but still very derivative.THE 3RD FAVORITE - SWAN SONG - was wasted because it (Bobby being run over and killed) turned out to be just a dream. For that reason I didn't place it quite so high (I placed it 6th).After HOUSE DIVIDED, my second place choice was EWING INFERNO. I'm surprised it didn't rate higher. It was for one thing, the ending of very possibly the best overall season Dallas ever had, although I realize that's subjective. But a lot of people who post here have said that season was their favorite. It was shocking to see such unbelievable intensity of hatred in Ray that he was literally trying to kill his own brother! He fortunately couldn't get the job done, and once JR hit Ray hard enough to make him lose consciousness for a few seconds, JR was free and could have run outside but despite being known as the most talked about TV villain in the world, a character many felt had no redeeming qualities, JR immediately started climbing the burning staircase so that he might rescue his son and his wife even though his wife despised him at that particular time. Then when we saw JR get git by a falling beam and be apparently knocked out with flames surrounding him, the situation looked like an impossible one to make it out of without one or more Ewing deaths.</blockquote>

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