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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DallasFanForever" data-source="post: 384655" data-attributes="member: 13221">I think another reason they handled Jock’s death the way they did was because of Kristin’s. Having two deaths that close together would’ve been too much. Better to put one off for a few months, and as pointed out because of the timing it was easier to pivot and just sent Jock away for awhile while they came up with an exit storyline. Personally I wasn’t a fan of J.R. talking to Jock on the phone for the first part of the season when we knew the actor was already gone but there really wasn’t much else they could do at that point. They had to keep Jock alive while they figured out how they were going to handle it. Poor Darius got dressed up for nothing! But in all seriousness, in a way I kind of like that Jock never had a funeral. Funerals can be a little mundane when translated to television. What we got was something different. We got those beautiful flashback scenes and personally I’ll take those. We also got the heart wrenching scene of the boys trying to find him in that South American lake but to no avail. As sad as it was, I prefer that over the old funeral. As for Wes Parmalee, that’s a very good question. I’d like to know when they did first think of it. It was only a little over four years later when Ben Stivers first arrived. Perhaps it was a storyline they were thinking about doing for awhile but in retrospect I’m glad they waited a few years. Doing it sooner would’ve been a case of bad timing and perceived as disrespectful to Jim.</blockquote>

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