Sue Ellen Could Be Unbearable At Times.

[Billy Wall]

Especially when JR tricks her back into falling in love with him again. Just watched the episode after Cliff’s suicide attempt and she goes from being not sure if she’ll re-marry JR to agreeing to marrying him and almost immediately telling off Clayton by saying “anybody that comes after JR is coming after me and I’ll stand by his side no matter what.” Clayton must had rocks for brains for sticking up for her after that.

Not only that, she actually have the nerve to give Dusty the evil eye when he comes back with a bride.

Later on she even gives Miss Ellie lip because she thought she was favoring Bobby over JR during the battle for Ewing Oil.

IMO, Sue Ellen had a very bad knack for throwing people that genuinely cares for her under the bus once she thought she was back on her feet. That’s probably my only gripe with Sue Ellen, who became a strong character in the end.

 

[Jimmy Todd]

Sue Ellen was so self destructive that she so often take an antagonistic attitude toward people who would be on her side. Lucy sort of alluded to that when she told Miss Ellie she would not be at JR and Sue Ellen's wedding
Lucy: Sue Ellen was almost becoming a nice person after she left JR(paraphrasing).
Miss Ellie: You didn't like the old Sue Ellen.
Lucy: And I have a feeling I'm not going to like the new Sue Ellen.

 

[Mustard]

Sue Ellen was a self-admitted snob, and Cliff's rant about her being a user was correct. Her low self-esteem would also drive me crazy. Being a single woman living with her young son John Ross in her own apartment, with tonnes of money in her bank account, was almost misery for her. "I need to be Mrs. J.R. Ewing and need to have Southfork" she'd say. I mean, WTF? Sue Ellen knows a lot of her faults though, and hates herself for them at times. It's the way she was brought up, and she wasn't the rebellious type.

IMO, Sue Ellen had a very bad knack for throwing people that genuinely cares for her under the bus once she thought she was back on her feet. That’s probably my only gripe with Sue Ellen, who became a strong character in the end.

Sue Ellen had a narrower view of her interests, i.e. hers and J.R.'s only. The irony is that this approach is often counter-productive, because the other family members won't have much sympathy later on if they have tougher times. There's an old saying "be nice to people on your way up, or they'll kick you hard on your way down". That's not a philosophy that J.R. believed in at all

 

[Crimson]

It's a good thing this forum's cadre of Sue Ellen superfans has (almost?) entirely disappeared; in years gone by, this thread would have turned into an absolute bloodbath.

To the OP: yes.

 

[Jock Ewing Fan]

It's a good thing this forum's cadre of Sue Ellen superfans has (almost?) entirely disappeared; in years gone by, this thread would have turned into an absolute bloodbath.

To the OP: yes.

You have a point. It would have been...something

 

[Jock Ewing Fan]

Sue Ellen insufferable?

Not nearly as much as Pam's whiny, self-righteous, self entitled hypocrisy, especially after season 4.
JR was right when he mentioned her talent for accumulating
large amounts of unearned income, and was right to be angry when she (illegally) gave his son to an alcoholic living with another man.

 

[Mustard]

Sue Ellen insufferable?

Not nearly as much as Pam's whiny, self-righteous, self entitled hypocrisy, especially after season 4.
JR was right when he mentioned her talent for accumulating
large amounts of unearned income, and was right to be angry when she (illegally) gave his son to an alcoholic living with another man.

Pam is a working class city girl who spent most of her life below the poverty line. Still, Valene came from an even poorer rural background in the Blue Ridge Mountains. For anyone born into wealth to lecture Pam as piling up "unearned dollars" is some cheek. Bobby spent quite some time in the early years wishing Pam wouldn't work at all (especially at The Store), even though she wanted to work.

 

[Jock Ewing Fan]

Pam is a working class city girl who spent most of her life below the poverty line. Still, Valene came from an even poorer rural background in the Blue Ridge Mountains. For anyone born into wealth to lecture Pam as piling up "unearned dollars" is some cheek. Bobby spent quite some time in the early years wishing Pam wouldn't work at all (especially at The Store), even though she wanted to work.

Many, Many working class people study hard, go to higher education entities, graduate, get jobs, work their way up the company ladder, start a business,
and even continue their education and /or take classes in professional development.

Pam did none of these.

She married, divorced and remarried Bobby Ewing
She inherited money from Mark Graison
She inherited part ownership in her mother's company and had no expertise in the business.

JR, by contrast, was mentored in the oil business from a young age by an alpha male who was tough and ruthless
at times. JR was denied parental love and a "normal' childhood. JR went to university, studied hard, served his country,
and earned the Presidency of Ewing Oil when his Father thought he earned it.

Pam was a glorified Gold Digger. Even Sue Ellen once remarked to her (When JR and Bobby were missing)
"Could you go back to being Miss Barnes?" Pam's response... Crickets.

Many, Many working class people work hard in order to gain a better life.
Pam was not one of them.

 

[Mustard]

Many, Many working class people work hard in order to gain a better life.
Pam was not one of them.

We saw in the lockdowns who really keeps society running, and it isn't the financially rich. Who was more important then? Shop workers or oil bosses?