I was under the impression that the final scene was going to be the explosion at Ewing Oil. And that Victoria’s scene where she gets out of bed and heads toward the shower was filmed because they knew Patrick was returning, but she didn’t know what she was filming when she did the scene. And that Pam did not find Mark dead in the shower, but instead stepped into the shower with Mark and they had a love scene.
It‘s pretty obvious that there was so much turmoil and no long-time planning anymore in Dallas (a series which I liked to that point for its cafing for details)
- in April Karzman‘s and Duffy‘s return was announced, the series finale was broadcasted on May 16.
so there was plenty of time to shoot some scenes edit the final episode at least or cut some scenes which will be useless (like JR investigating in Mark‘s past, if the character is gone after the next one?)
- Why put so much time/budget/cast scenes for Pam‘s wedding to Mark if it‘s forgotten? The episode was advertised that Bobby would return. You keep waiting for him showing up during the wedding which stays eventless.
- Why use the Ben Stivers scenes if you redo them again now under the name of Wes Parmalee? I think they had the actor on the payroll and probably discovered later on that they had to use him in the next season. With Phil Capice in charge Ben Stivers would allegedly have turned out to be Jock to close the show.
Phil Capice closed the season as he thought and left. Katzman did not like the product although he was part of it as an advisor. He made it all a dream and he did not put much care in it. It seems careless and lazy. „Return to camelot“ feels like a different series, not better or worse in my opinion, but completely unattached to the episode before. No care for details. The idea to make it Pam‘s dream instead of Bobby‘s speaks volumes to the lack of care.
