Would This Have Been the Way to Go

[Ray_Krebbs]

I read a couple comments on YouTube that both said the reboot should have ended with VP Pam waking up in the hospital after being in a coma since her accident. It seems brilliant, but would it have only upset fans even more? Also if there was a 4th season, could they have easily explained what happened 1987 to 2014? It could be done gradually and give a good writing team a lot to work with.

 

[Rove]

I wouldn't have liked this story at all. The one thing TNT Dallas got right was finally answering the unanswered; "Whatever happened to Pam?" If by some miracle Victoria decided to return and woke up in a coma it would have added insult to injury to long-time Dallas fans. The writers would think the story is clever but it's that nudge nudge, wink wink to audience which would have backfired spectacularly.

In my Dallas continuation I'd hire people with skill in writing, directing, lighting and photography and return my favourite series to its serious roots. But hey, what I like others may not.

 

[Snarky Oracle!]

Yes, JR's Masterpiece and oldPam's destiny (and Josh Henderson) were strongest things nuDALLAS ever did. Both in late-Season 2.

 

[LMLDallas78]

Oh no thankyou, not any more dreams or a prolonged dream and certainly not having any relevance on TNT Dallas. I would say as it was Pam's dream then audiences would more than likely have been open to forgiveness. After all, in VP's own words, Pam was so beloved and when she left it was never going to be easily accepted.
But then the original dream WAS Pam's and still disliked by most.

There was plenty I disliked about TNT Dallas and plenty I loved but that's no different than original Dallas. The show was named Dallas, not Pamela's dream. Storylines were already being churned out over and over long before she left with any fresh enthralling ideas failing to reach the screen.


To quote Bobby,
"Things won't disappear because you pretend they don't exist.
You can't wipe out the past by denying it happened".

He's got a lot to answer for!

The dream being a dream needed to be different but as discussed endlessly on here, how on earth could it have been?

 

[Jock Ewing Fan]

I read a couple comments on YouTube that both said the reboot should have ended with VP Pam waking up in the hospital after being in a coma since her accident. It seems brilliant, but would it have only upset fans even more? Also if there was a 4th season, could they have easily explained what happened 1987 to 2014? It could be done gradually and give a good writing team a lot to work with.

Except that VP would have to agree to return, and it seems that she was unwilling, for whatever reason
Would that make MM an imposter?

 

[Ray_Krebbs]

The MM thing would have been a dream along with all 1987 to 2014

 

[Friend!Food! Oleson]

If they had done it it shouldn't suggest that she had been dreaming stories again.
But if the series had ended with a somewhat positive conclusion ("aaaaall our problems are finally over, let's celebrate"), presumed dead Pam coming out of her coma could have been that last minute twist.
It's sort of how I want Jock to return in classic DALLAS' last scene.

 

[Snarky Oracle!]

I want to see, in oldDALLAS' final scene in 1991: after JR wakes up and shoots himself in the mirror, the picture ripples to that old footage of Pam waking up five years earlier and going to the shower to find .... Mark Graison ... dead on the pink tile floor, Pam screams all reverb-echo-y, and the camera pans into the drain all PSYCHO-style, the water swirling into the darkness, no music, fade to black.

Executive Producers LEONARD KATZMAN LARRY HAGMAN

A dream within a dream. Leaving viewers to ponder, perhaps forever, as to what was real and what was not... Even fans who'd hated Pam's Dream resolution are invited to re-visit the whole controversy and what it all meant.

So, dreams in nuDALLAS don't seem any less likely.

 

[CryptCreeper72]

I want to see, in oldDALLAS' final scene in 1991: after JR wakes up and shoots himself in the mirror, the picture ripples to that old footage of Pam waking up five years earlier and going to the shower to find .... Mark Graison ... dead on the pink tile floor, Pam screams all reverb-echo-y, and the camera pans into the drain all PSYCHO-style, the water swirling into the darkness, no music, fade to black.

Executive Producers LEONARD KATZMAN LARRY HAGMAN

A dream within a dream. Leaving viewers to ponder, perhaps forever, as to what was real and what was not... Even fans who'd hated Pam's Dream resolution are invited to re-visit the whole controversy and what it all meant.

So, dreams in nuDALLAS don't seem any less likely.

I would have loved that. Better to make Cally, Michelle, James, De La Vega, etc. products of a nightmare.

Still, I would have to wonder why Pam dreamed so much about the other characters having sex .

#pervert

 

[DallasFanForever]

I read a couple comments on YouTube that both said the reboot should have ended with VP Pam waking up in the hospital after being in a coma since her accident. It seems brilliant, but would it have only upset fans even more? Also if there was a 4th season, could they have easily explained what happened 1987 to 2014? It could be done gradually and give a good writing team a lot to work with.

I don’t necessarily dislike this idea myself but I’m afraid most fans would’ve either hated it or been thoroughly confused by it. I think it could very well have been brilliant and a nice wink to the original show but I’m afraid it wouldn’t fly too well overall.

 

[CryptCreeper72]

I don’t necessarily dislike this idea myself but I’m afraid most fans would’ve either hated it or been thoroughly confused by it. I think it could very well have been brilliant and a nice wink to the original show but I’m afraid it wouldn’t fly too well overall.

I agree with you.

But what Cidre ended up doing deserved to be classified as a nightmare.

 

[Jock's Ghost]

Nah. the dream crap came too easy and was used very lazy manner.

 

[xab]

The truth is that Pam went into a coma right after her fall from this barn in season 1 / episode 5 and she never recovered. She's still in a coma. It was all a dream and none of that happened.

And we do not exist either. The entire world is Pamela Ewing's nightmare.

And I'm still wondering... Do I take the red pill or the blue one... ?

 

[Snowcat]

VP was clear on multiple occasions she is never coming back. She said the only way Pam may have survived is if she was frozen. I’d be livid if Pam was alive all this time and never made contact with Christopher. The show was never the same without out her. I always wished they would have given her a proper funeral and given Bobby and Christopher closure. The writing declined severely in subsequent seasons

 

[DallasFanForever]

I always wished they would have given her a proper funeral and given Bobby and Christopher closure.

I guess the Margaret Michael’s Pam scene when she talks about the fact she’s dying is the closest we ever got to any kind of closure. Unfortunately Bobby and Christopher weren’t privy to that. Killing off Pam after season 10 and giving her a funeral would’ve been the way to go in hindsight but obviously that wasn’t going to happen. At least we got some closure on TNT Dallas for Christopher but Bobby’s reaction was too subdued.

 

[Rove]

Killing off Pam after season 10 and giving her a funeral would’ve been the way to go in hindsight but obviously that wasn’t going to happen.

During the long history that is Dallas I recall only Bobby and later JR having proper funerals...well Bobby's didn't exist because it occurred in Pam's head. I wonder what it was that Dallas didn't have Church funerals or weddings.

 

[DallasFanForever]

During the long history that is Dallas I recall only Bobby and later JR having proper funerals...well Bobby's didn't exist because it occurred in Pam's head. I wonder what it was that Dallas didn't have Church funerals or weddings.

The only other ones I can think of are Digger and ironically Tommy McKay. Were there any others? I can’t think of any. We did see a short clip of Rebecca’s now that I think of it.