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<blockquote data-quote="Bobby Southworth" data-source="post: 443218" data-attributes="member: 4960">and this was about the second or third year they started doing roughly 30 episodes..my goodness. Just going off memory, I can&#039;t quite recall exactly how far along the season was when Jenna was arrested, but it seems like the trial dragged on for half the season.. I mean, were viewers at the time really that invested in this? I know Dallas was still hot at the time, but outside of the twist of Jenna going straight from the victim, to the accused, I find this to be an extremely tough binge. That said, I&#039;m sure it obviously made a difference when you didn&#039;t know for sure exactly how it was going to go, but it just didn&#039;t need to drag on so long. I guess they were building up to the big cliffhanger, and it&#039;s almost like, in knowing Patrick was leaving, they had to find a way to prevent his relationship with Jenna from advancing forward, and hold off till the end of the season for the reunion with Pam. Dang it, Patrick. All of this for nothing. &nbsp;That said, you know, I don&#039;t really begrudge Patrick for feeling like he needed to do something else. He was getting older, and this is the way of life. You want that promotion, you want to keep believing that you have even more yet to accomplish, and I would imagine he may have even been feeling some pressure from people in his circle(not Larry, of course), but.. the bigger problem is obviously that he came back, or the way he came back, or the way he insisted on being written out. This is where I get frustrated.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Bobby Southworth, post: 443218, member: 4960"] and this was about the second or third year they started doing roughly 30 episodes..my goodness. Just going off memory, I can't quite recall exactly how far along the season was when Jenna was arrested, but it seems like the trial dragged on for half the season.. I mean, were viewers at the time really that invested in this? I know Dallas was still hot at the time, but outside of the twist of Jenna going straight from the victim, to the accused, I find this to be an extremely tough binge. That said, I'm sure it obviously made a difference when you didn't know for sure exactly how it was going to go, but it just didn't need to drag on so long. I guess they were building up to the big cliffhanger, and it's almost like, in knowing Patrick was leaving, they had to find a way to prevent his relationship with Jenna from advancing forward, and hold off till the end of the season for the reunion with Pam. Dang it, Patrick. All of this for nothing. That said, you know, I don't really begrudge Patrick for feeling like he needed to do something else. He was getting older, and this is the way of life. You want that promotion, you want to keep believing that you have even more yet to accomplish, and I would imagine he may have even been feeling some pressure from people in his circle(not Larry, of course), but.. the bigger problem is obviously that he came back, or the way he came back, or the way he insisted on being written out. This is where I get frustrated. [/QUOTE]

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