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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kenny Coyote" data-source="post: 196595" data-attributes="member: 102">That's an interesting question. We discussed it some on the thread "If You Had Been In Charge Of Deciding Whether To Rehire Patrick Duffy."I wouldn't have because there wasn't any good way to do it without killing the credibility of the show. As unliked as the dream explanation is, I've never heard another explanation that's any better. Still, the ratings remained virtually the same in the season when Patrick Duffy came back as they were in the previous season. Actually I liked season 10 better than season 9. I think they looked lost in the season without Bobby. Getting involved in a deal with some Greek billionaire we'd never heard of, with the basis of it being Jack had to be part of the deal because he looked so much like the Greek tycoon, and that Jack was his long lost son, then became even more convoluted. We found out Jack wasn't his son after all, but still Jack had to be part of the deal because now they wanted Jack to impersonate the man to prove he was in good health. Except he wasn't in good health; he was dead. So actually the plan was to kill Jack. Then that bizarre Neros woman would inherit the empire. JR would die too because she decided it would be even better to kill both Jack and JR. Then there was the emerald mine story. Pam went to South America looking for emeralds and got kidnapped in the process. The stories just weren't good!The next season they had Bobby, but they still had the rest of the ensemble. They had the choice to use the ensemble any way they wanted. The actors were available. They were there. The problem was, the writers couldn't write any good scripts. The stories remained tacky and contrived, every story had to be bigger, more spectacular and more outlandish than than the last. Bobby came back from the dead, so maybe we can bring Jock back too! How about blowing up oil wells in Saudi Arabia to save the Texas oil industry?It wasn't Dallas anymore and it had nothing to do with the actors or which actors they had because the scripts sucked!  As much as I'd like to say they shouldn't have brought Patrick Duffy back because of the credibility factor, the writers were obviously going in a direction that would kill all credibility anyway, so ultimately, what difference did it make whether they brought Patrick Duffy back or not? The whole creative department had run out of creativity. The producer and writers had run out of any ability to discern: "Is this a quality story or is it just spectacular for the sake of being spectacular? Does this story have any substance to it? Is this the type of show that belongs in Dallas - the type of story our viewers will want to see?" They ran out of all those things and without them, there wasn't any cast of actors that could have saved Dallas.</blockquote>

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