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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KayLloyd" data-source="post: 412153" data-attributes="member: 144"><p>No one would have survived a crash like Pam's, so yes, Victoria and any other actress in her place would reasonably believe and expect that her character was being killed off.   Katzman let his anger at Victoria cloud his professional judgement about the handling of her departure from the show and reasonable request for closure for Pam and Bobby to appear in the final episode.  He let himself lose sight of the big picture of what was best for the show, and that was the ratings gold of having Victoria appear in the final episode.  My sense is that if he had been thinking more clearly and agreed to Victoria's request, he probably would have still used the "It's A Wonderful Life" concept and just re-written Bobby's story with the final scene showing how happy Bobby and Pam and their children would have been together at Southfork without J.R.   It would have been the perfect ending to Dallas with the first and final scenes being of Bobby and Pam.</p></blockquote><p></p>