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<blockquote data-quote="ClassyCo" data-source="post: 1663" data-attributes="member: 7">I still don&#039;t think you are getting what I am trying to say. Just because we saw Bobby &quot;die&quot; does not mean he was really dead. You mentioned Gary&#039;s &quot;death&quot; on Knots Landing. As I recall, he was actually given a funeral. I cannot remember if we actually saw Gary &quot;die&quot; on camera, but I do fondly remember the showing of his funeral. Bobby&#039;s death could have been as easily faked as Gary&#039;s had been, and in saying that, I don&#039;t think Knots Landing would have drifted away from the Dallas world. The Knots could have simply addressed that Bobby faked his death, and the revelation of that could have the necessary affects on Gary, Valene, Betsy and Bobby et cetera. In the simplest terms: I think the writing off of Season 9 as a dream was lazy on the writers&#039; part, and I do believe it undermined the audiences&#039; involvement with the characters. You said that the audience also mourned Bobby&#039;s death with the other characters throughout Season 9. I&#039;m sure they did, and I&#039;m sure that&#039;s why they must have been ticked when Season 10 told that that it was all a dream, thus making the emotions they had felt false and unnecessary. The thing I cannot seem to get over is the fact that a entire season of acting, writing, and of watching is just pointless to the entire show. I started watching the first three or four episodes of Season 9 just to see how different the show was, and, of course, it was. I was going to watch it to see if I would have preferred Bobby stayed dead or the fact he was brought back alive. Well, I&#039;m not going to do that now. I see little point in spending my time watching 31 episodes that will have absolutely no ties to what comes after it. I will pick up where I left off with Season 8 at the start of Season 10. I my mind, I guess I&#039;m not going to acknowledge that Season 9 even exists.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ClassyCo, post: 1663, member: 7"] I still don't think you are getting what I am trying to say. Just because we saw Bobby "die" [B]does not [/B]mean he was [I]really [/I]dead. You mentioned Gary's "death" on [I]Knots Landing[/I]. As I recall, he was actually given a funeral. I cannot remember if we actually saw Gary "die" on camera, but I do fondly remember the showing of his funeral. Bobby's death could have been as easily faked as Gary's had been, and in saying that, I don't think [I]Knots Landing [/I]would have drifted away from the [I]Dallas [/I]world. The [I]Knots [/I]could have simply addressed that Bobby faked his death, and the revelation of that could have the necessary affects on Gary, Valene, Betsy and Bobby et cetera. In the simplest terms: I think the writing off of Season 9 as a dream was lazy on the writers' part, and I do believe it undermined the audiences' involvement with the characters. You said that the audience also mourned Bobby's death with the other characters throughout Season 9. I'm sure they did, and I'm sure that's why they must have been ticked when Season 10 told that that it was [I]all a dream[/I], thus making the emotions they had felt false and unnecessary. The thing I cannot seem to get over is the fact that a entire season of acting, writing, and of watching is just pointless to the entire show. I started watching the first three or four episodes of Season 9 just to see how different the show was, and, of course, it was. I was going to watch it to see if I would have preferred Bobby stayed dead or the fact he was brought back alive. Well, I'm not going to do that now. I see little point in spending my time watching 31 episodes that will have absolutely no ties to what comes after it. I will pick up where I left off with Season 8 at the start of Season 10. I my mind, I guess I'm not going to acknowledge that Season 9 even exists. [/QUOTE]

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