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<blockquote data-quote="Kenny Coyote" data-source="post: 227259" data-attributes="member: 102">As I remember it, Miss Ellie was the only one who thought he might be Jock. She was too emotional to think straight. Jock&#039;s sons would have loved for Jock to still be alive.&nbsp; They loved him.&nbsp; If they&#039;d had any reason to believe that man could be their father, they would have been overjoyed. They had every reason to want to believe him but they would see he wasn&#039;t. Ellie maybe wanted to believe more than even them, so she did believe or at least thought it was possible.&nbsp; Someone who wasn&#039;t emotionally affected by the outcome, Jeremy Wendell, held a meeting with the fake Jock and as they were talking about selling Ewing Oil to Westar, Wendell called him Mr. Parmalee.He passed the tests because he was a good con man.&nbsp; If he&#039;d been a bad con man, there would be no point in doing it. If he fails the test then he&#039;s not Jock and it&#039;s over. Pointless story.As I watched it, I wasn&#039;t thinking &quot;is this Jock&quot;&#039; I was thinking &quot;is this con man going to get away with it&quot;? I kept thinking, I really hope they don&#039;t say he&#039;s Jock; that won&#039;t be good.&quot; To me that was the suspense: How much will this con man get away with.&quot;I think it would have been very awkward to prove he was Jock and then have to have all his sons apologize to him and say how they were so sorry they didn&#039;t recognize their own father and they just don&#039;t know how they could have not realized it was him. I don&#039;t see any way it worked out in a way where the audience was satisfied with the idea that the Ewing boys would have all botched the search for Jock and that they didn&#039;t bother to check the hospitals in the area for anyone who had been in a helicopter crash. They would have left no stone unturned in their search for Jock.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kenny Coyote, post: 227259, member: 102"] As I remember it, Miss Ellie was the only one who thought he might be Jock. She was too emotional to think straight. Jock's sons would have loved for Jock to still be alive. They loved him. If they'd had any reason to believe that man could be their father, they would have been overjoyed. They had every reason to want to believe him but they would see he wasn't. Ellie maybe wanted to believe more than even them, so she did believe or at least thought it was possible. Someone who wasn't emotionally affected by the outcome, Jeremy Wendell, held a meeting with the fake Jock and as they were talking about selling Ewing Oil to Westar, Wendell called him Mr. Parmalee. He passed the tests because he was a good con man. If he'd been a bad con man, there would be no point in doing it. If he fails the test then he's not Jock and it's over. Pointless story. As I watched it, I wasn't thinking "is this Jock"' I was thinking "is this con man going to get away with it"? I kept thinking, I really hope they don't say he's Jock; that won't be good." To me that was the suspense: How much will this con man get away with." I think it would have been very awkward to prove he was Jock and then have to have all his sons apologize to him and say how they were so sorry they didn't recognize their own father and they just don't know how they could have not realized it was him. I don't see any way it worked out in a way where the audience was satisfied with the idea that the Ewing boys would have all botched the search for Jock and that they didn't bother to check the hospitals in the area for anyone who had been in a helicopter crash. They would have left no stone unturned in their search for Jock. [/QUOTE]

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Who played JR Ewing?