What more would you like Miss Ellie to do?
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She wouldn't have called it Southfork it would've needed another name. It should've been called Southpork with a picture of Porky pig over the gate!
This suggestion comes from the great Daffy Duck who was Executive Story Consultant on the TNT Cyntax Dallas.
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Perhaps Miss Ellie could have had her own business. Kind of like how Angela had the spa on Falcon Crest. I'm not sure what Miss Ellie could have owned
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Also might have been a good way for her to get to see more of Gary.
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Yes indeed.
She could take up yoga, so when Gary is drying out after a bad relapse she can get him to do some yoga too as a form of treatment.
The yoga would also help her from eating all those pancakes. I've heard that the gin and vodka ones are rather tasty. She'd have to keep them away from Gary and Swigger!
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Set up a foundation and give it all their (her’s and Clayton’s) money and assets. The foundation could given income to live, so that’s not an issue, but it would put her at the head of a billion dollar operation. The foundation would own the land and oil of Southfork and she’d tell JR if you can find a way to get at it without drilling on South Fork, it’s yours, with the leases making her foundation even richer. She’d then give the cattle business to Gary, but since they destroyed that relationship with the dream, I guess I’d have given it to Bobby. She’d then give the house in trust to John Ross in hopes of getting Sue Ellen to return. I’d gave her play the head of the family in a much stronger and necessarily manipulative way.Pam and Sue Ellen eventually came into their own, but Miss Ellie kind of didn't -- sidelined even more in the closing years, even when she was still on the show.
What more would you have liked to have seen Miss Ellie do??
Miss Ellie to JR, “I have something for you to do for me, in exchange for the oil leases.”
“What is it?”
“I want you to move into the cottage our back.”
“What! What’s going on? First you have Bobby move into Gary’s old house, now you’re telling me to leave. This doesn’t sound like you. Is this Clayton’s idea?”
“No. It’s mine. Once you’ve moved out, I’m going to suggest Sue Ellen move in to raise John Ross, where he belongs. Im going to give him the house.”
“What makes you think she’s going to leave her husband?”
“They’ve been separated, for some time. She’s living in London and he lives on his fathers country estate. If you’d bothered to pay attention to what really matters you’d know that by now.”
With a sly grin, JR says, “You’ll need more than that to get her back in Dallas.”
“With your slant drilling for Southfork’s oil from the Wade property, the foundation will have billions of dollars to give away. I’m going to ask Sue Ellen to it giveaway.”
“You’re gonna gave her run the Farlow Foundation?”
“I’m running it, but yes, Sue Ellen will give away the money. Lucy’s staying in New York. Sue Ellen will be a perfect mentor for charity work there as well. Plus Christopher needs a stable mother figure around.”
“And to do this, I have to move out?”
“And behave while she’s here.”
“You’re asking for trouble, momma.”
“JR, I’m asking for my family to be out back together and I’m will to pay you very generously for your cooperation.”
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But unhappy makes for some good drama.
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He looses it and his momma buys it.
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Being more serious for a second with regards JR & Miss Ellie, I would've liked Miss Ellie to slap JR more.
On the various occasions where she confronted him, she only shouted at him. She really should have smacked him in the face.
Smacking someone shows that they were in the wrong. With JR he got away with a lot because he wasn't smacked or slapped when he was in the wrong.
On the various occasions where she confronted him, she only shouted at him. She really should have smacked him in the face.
Smacking someone shows that they were in the wrong. With JR he got away with a lot because he wasn't smacked or slapped when he was in the wrong.
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A duet!
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this makes sense, as she was laying the groundwork for such a move quite early in the series, using her power and influence to eliminate potential rivals
..and this only weeks after Lucy's triumphant, still-talked-about, contest-winning performance at Austin's prestigious Overcomer Club Talent Show
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I think it was a shame that Miss Ellie never had an affair while she was married to Clayton.
Well, not unless you don't count the secret meetings she had with Wes Parmalee who was really meant to be Jock all along!
Well, not unless you don't count the secret meetings she had with Wes Parmalee who was really meant to be Jock all along!
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I think it was a shame that Miss Ellie never had an affair while she was married to Clayton.
Well, not unless you don't count the secret meetings she had with Wes Parmalee who was really meant to be Jock all along!
It's hard to say. Some people feel Ellie didn't really ever love Jock, or perhaps that she didn't love Jock as much as he loved her. Maybe because Ellie married Jock in part due to financial need (not unusual for women of another era). Or maybe they relate more closely to Jock, and feel Ellie was a less-loving person overall.
So would Ellie have been drawn to Wes Parmalee because she felt he was really Jock?
There are so many questions... but that's what made the Parmalee plot so compelling.
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