Daydream Believer

[brumeier.livejournal.com]

Picture it: 1986. Everyone sitting around watching the season finale of Dallas, a popular US prime time soap opera. Main character Bobby, played by Patrick Duffy, had been killed off in a car crash the previous season. But in that last ep of the season his wife, who’d since remarried, opened the shower door and there was Bobby, alive and well.

The whole last season, it turns out, had been a dream. And the millions of fans all said WTF? They’d invested time and interest in a whole season that turned out not to mean a darn thing, all because Mr. Duffy’s film career didn’t take off and he wanted to come back to the show.

That’s one way to bring a character back from the dead!

What are some of your favorite methods for bringing a character back from the dead?

Comments

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

When I had to bring Boromir back from the dead I used a canon change (he was captured along with the hobbits rather than arrowed to death) plus two fun cliches (he passed out and was mistaken for dead, then picked up by some peasants and nursed). I think usin a little of each worked better than just using one method would have.

[brumeier.livejournal.com]

That's a really good strategy. Thanks for sharing! (And saving poor Boromir.)