I thought the show needed a new family to Feud with - that they should have left the Barnes Ewing Feud go. I'd go as far as cliff being thrilled at his daughter marry John Ross as he always thought of him as a son and JR thrilled he is son married Pamela because he'd see something in her from fine schools to her business success. But I do agree they needed a fued - so who? I also don't think it should be someone totally new to the story like the Ramos or ryland families - should be a connection. So who?
1) Wendells - a little obvious but maybe a good idea - certainly reason to hate JR if they lost control of West Star to him and Jeremy died broken
2) a cartel family like the Lees or Stones - lost of reasons to hate the Ewings
3) maybe the Krebs kids - Margaret and Lucas - have to make something up but the revel that Bobby is Lucas's real dad in the middle of a fued could send things into high gear
Or another? Please give a name or names and reason. And who carries on the fued (even make up new people if you want as long as they're connected to the original)?
I like 1) and 2) but I don't see the Krebbs family having the reason or the temperament to engage in a feud with the Ewings. Actually Ray Krebbs is a Ewing despite his name so all his children would have Ewing blood running through their veins.
I thought of one more possibility that I like a lot. It's a bit far-fetched, but aren't lots of soap storylines that way? Here's my idea: First I anted to choose someone who had reason to hate the Ewings and was also a formidable competitor - someone whose offspring would also likely be formidable competitors for the Ewings. That rules out Michelle Stevens - she's just too much of an airhead. I'm looking for someone who has intelligence to pass along to children even if this person had mental health issues. Those could also be passed down to the next generation and someone or a few people of the same family who are intelligent but also mentally predisposed to be obsessive and extremely jealous as well as psychopathic would be dangerous people with whom to have to feud.
If you haven't guessed who I'm describing yet, it's Katherine Wentworth! Now I realize Katherine died according to Cidre history, and even if she hadn't died, if she'd ever surfaced long enough to engage in a sustained feud, the authorities would find her and put her in prison. So since it can't be Katherine feuding with the Ewings, here's my idea:
According to a new bit of history that would be uncovered so that this feud could take place, it would be revealed that before Katherine died, she got pregnant by a man whose identity I haven't decided on yet. Maybe the story should just be that she had a one night stand with a good looking man who resembled Bobby one night when she was trashed. As a result, 9 months later Katherine gave birth to twins! She loved her babies (a boy and a girl), and was as good of a mother to them as her mental health would allow. She constantly told them stories abut the man she wished had been their father, Bobby Ewing, but according to her, even though Bobby used to love her a lot, J.R. Ewing told Bobby vicious lies about her to keep him from considering her marriage material. Bobby was so awful to her after hearing the lies J.R. told Bobby about Katherine that losing the love of the only man she had ever truly loved was just too much for her heart and her soul to take. That marked the beginning of her descent into madness. It was as she put it, not just a betrayal by J.R., whom she had once considered a friend, but then for Bobby to not giver her the benefit of the doubt and instead for Bobby to turn against her so completely and so "viciously" caused her "more grief than any woman should ever have to bear."
As crazy as she sounds, she was still capable of treating the twins well as they grew from toddlers into beautiful and intelligent young children. Robert and Kathleen loved their mother and they empathized with her entirely when she told her about how much she had done for Bobby Ewing and how he had just paid her back in scorn. They hated J.R. for turning Bobby against her but being the highly intelligent children they were, they realized it was Bobby's free will to either choose to believe the malicious lies or to choose not to believe them considering Katherine had always treated Bobby wonderfully and with all of her heart.
As the twins neared puberty, the strain from years of running from the authorities had just accelerated the decline of her mental health. Both Robert and Kathleen Wentworth noticed this being the highly observant kids they were, and it frightened them terribly. Their mom was all the family they had! One day as they returned home from 8th grade, they arrived to find Katherine still in her bed. Kathleen went to check on her mother and as she touched the side of her mother's face, she let out a scream of pure sadness. Katherine's face was cold to the touch, much too cold, and Robert, upon checking for a pulse, found none. They both cried hysterically, not fully able to believe that such a horrible thing could be true. Their mother was dead!
There was a piece of paper on her nightstand that Robert took in his hands and then immediately showed to his twin sister as they both read the suicide note silently. The gist of it was that although she loved them both dearly, she could no longer take both the stress running from the authorities, and as she put it, she had gotten old enough that she was forced to confront the reality that if Bobby was ever going to marry her, he would have done so already. She just couldn't stand living with the fact that she was too old to be attractive to "such an incredibly good looking man." She continued on about the impossibility of Bobby wanting to marry an "old maid" like her as she put it, and that truth be told, for some time now she had wanted "sweet release" from this world. She never would have lasted as long as she had without Robert and Kathleen and they should always remember how very much she loved them. She hoped that she had managed to last long enough to teach them both the most important lessons that a mother could pass on to her children, and as hard as it had been to hold on, especially over the last year or so, she hoped that they would have only good memories of her and that there was no way to measure how much she loved them both. Finally she wrote that she was supremely confident in each their abilities and certain that they wouldn't waste their lives as she had wasted hers. She wrote that she was sure they would both live their lives in ways that would make her so very, very proud.
