Katherine Was Unlikely To Have Killed Bobby Even If It Wasn't a Dream

[Laura Avery-Sumner]

how come Kristin is also present in her wig, throwing a drink at the screen near the beginning? Major continuity error, me thinks.

Well if Kristin is anywhere in the episode, Pam has had a really looooong dream! lol

 

[Julia's Gun]

Well if Kristin is anywhere in the episode, Pam has had a really looooong dream! lol

Whoops, I'm always getting my psychotic killers mixed up...

 

[Swellin]

Can we talk about the real issue - that awful blonde wig. Why was she wearing it in the hotel room by herself

 

[Jock's Ghost]

Of course, it was all Pam's dream. But...... if her dream only starts later in the episode the night Bobby stays over, how come Katherine is also present in her wig, throwing a drink at the screen near the beginning? Major continuity error, me thinks.

God! I hate this resolution. Put Bobby in a coma or never bring him back. The minute anyone heard Larry whining about bringing Patrick back, they should have said, "Ok, bucko, his salary comes out of yours!" and shut the hell up, HE'S DEAD!

 

[Jock's Ghost]

Can we talk about the real issue - that awful blonde wig. Why was she wearing it in the hotel room by herself

Because she's crazy? And to hide her identity from the audience. I hate this storyline! It treated Katherine terribly. Instead of her being a killer; she tried to kill Bobby before, but that could have been cleaned up with her new found power- she married an even richer dude, he died and left her billions- she comes back as a corporate shark and takes back WENTWORTH TOOL & DYE. Puts Cliff through the ringer, forcing him to side with JR.... any goddamn thing than what we got!
Bobby is killed in another way or put in a coma? OR the dream was NOT Pam's but Bobby's traumatic event... he even imagined his mother looking slightly different! Instead of that stupid Shower good morning, we see the flatline.... bounce back to life! Everyone returns to the starting gate, even BBG, everyone stops crying and now laughing as Bobby pulls himself back from the brink... that would have at least been slightly more clever and made more sense... ---- what an easy way to bring him back!!!!!ALL of these are superior to what we got. My Dallas dies a little here and then totally when Pam leaves.
They should have asked me 40 years ago....

 

[Jock's Ghost]

I've always equated the wearing of the wig as she wanted to be Jenna or something. Of course, it was really to throw us off. Man, I wish both Sue Ellen and Pam's sisters didn't have to be crazy. I mean, I just wish Katherine wouldn't have been escalated to the level of crazy she became.

Kristin would have been a real beast going up against Katherine. Writing them crazy seemed like a lazy way to get out of making them strong. Even Pam, who stood up to JR got the crazy pill occasionally before ugly Christopher showed up.

 

[Snarky Oracle!]

All DALLAS' sisters-in-law were "crazy". It was a thing. Like shootings and plane crashes.

But Kristin's character motives were clear. As were Lady Jessica's. Hence, they weren't just crazy -- Kristin was a brazen hussy (a grasping, prostitutional character) while Lady Jessica was a narcissistic grande dame (who had apparently been a grasping prostitutional character in her youth). Both of whom were capable of physical violence. Especially Jessica who, as we would soon learn, was no lady at all.

But we knew, and were told, what drove them.

The problem with Katherine, at least in retrospect, was that the script never informed the viewer as to what drove Katherine -- even as she drove over Bobby in Pam's driveway -- except that she was "in love" with her brother-in-law. There was never even any reference to the fact that Katherine had lost two-thirds of her inheritance to her new half-siblings, Pam and Cliff, and how much resentment that might have engendered.

The only thing that prevented Katherine from being a mere crazy-girl stereotype was that DALLAS was at its creative peak when she was on the show, so we just kind of accepted her and whatever her unspecified goals were (other than her obsession with Bobby). Did Herbert Wentworth diddle her as a child? Did he spoil her, and she therefore just couldn't understand boundaries?

Ray's fatal attraction stalker in Season 11 was equally nebulous in her jealousy mindset, but the series was showing signs of sliding by that point (and she wasn't a sister-in-law, so it didn't really count -- she was just a nutcase floozy he'd picked up in a bar, and who amongst us hasn't done that?)

A lot of Katherine's reasoning could have been delineated even after she'd temporarily died, but it wasn't.

There is some evidence that dark hair dye can seep into your scalp and make you sick, even instigating Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma. Perhaps that's why she died as the blonde she had once been.


"Why am I so unhappily homicidal??"

 

[Julia's Gun]

There was never even any reference to the fact that Katherine had lost two-thirds of her inheritance to her new half-siblings, Pam and Cliff, and how much resentment that might have engendered.

Yes. resenting Cliff or Pam would have been a lot more plausible and an understandable reason for driving her to murder and mayhem. If this was a Knots plot, they probably would have gone down that route instead. Perhaps because Dallas was written mainly by heterosexual men, they could only see the women being motivated by their need/desire for other men. Anything more sophisticated than that was beyond their radar.

If Abby Ewing had spent a few episodes in Dallas, she could have easily schooled Katherine in how to wreak havoc on her half-siblings, given her history with her in-law Karen Fairgate Mckenzie...

 

[Toni]

The storyline for Katherine in her first bunch of episodes (DVD Season 5) was all about reconnecting with her newfound siblings and resenting Cliff for running her father´s first company, so I do think that the writers did their job well. The next year, when she returned after Rebecca´s death, she started scheming to keep Bobby and Pam apart, but then there also was the infamous Tundra Torque affaire, which proved that Katherine did have initiative regarding business. Of course, there was no continuation to that, and they focused on her obsession with Bobby and that fake letter, but the moment when Kathy darling jumped the shark was when she was caught trying to kill Bobby at the hospital. The whole confession was badly written and acted (sorry Morgan), and terribly swept under the rug after she was bailed out.

Could the character have come back again and prove she was "cured"? I highly doubt it. They tried when Pam´s accident happened, and the whole scene turned out to be highly laughable...

 

[lbf522]

No doubt bout it, they wasted Katherine Wentworth like with Holly Harwood. I would have preferred instead of being obsessed with Bobby and having sex with JR, Katherine resending Cliff and Pamela in her father's company where they have no right too.

 

[Chris2]

What gets me is that TPTB actually wrote a story where Bobby was murdered. And they somehow thought that this wouldn’t cast a pall over what was essentially an escapist series.

 

[tommie]

I mean, besides the fact that they wouldn't drive fatally against a stuntman, there's a lot of ways you can die from fairly low impact car accidents from just being hit the wrong way and causing internal injuries/bleeding. It's like how people sometimes survive falls that should be all accounts be fatal - it's not about from where you fall, but how you land.

 

[Snarky Oracle!]

What gets me is that TPTB actually wrote a story where Bobby was murdered. And they somehow thought that this wouldn’t cast a pall over what was essentially an escapist series.

Murders happen in escapist series. That, for me, isn't a problem. Un-murdering people is where it gets tricky.

The pall over DALLAS came months earlier when Miss Ellie's face-lift fell into that well on Section 40.

 

[Jock's Ghost]

Katherine's motives would have been made more explicit if she had actually had a fling with Bobby or they kissed, he rebuked her, maybe even misleading her to the point she took offense, thus the deadly attraction began. Why kill her off? She was in disguise- why not have the car drive away.... Katherine shows up later to offer help, condolences to sister dear.....time to mend fences.... Anything...

 

[Seaviewer]

Katherine's motives would have been made more explicit if she had actually had a fling with Bobby

Yes, precisely why she switched her efforts from eliminating rivals to offing Bobby himself was never really explained.