If You Were Gary, Would All The Love You Had For Jock Be Gone After The Stipulation He Put In The Will?

[CeeCee72]

I think Jimmy Todd meant examples of Pam and Donna siding with JR when it was beneficial to them.

Ahhh, no sorry if I wasn't clear with what I meant. I meant Pam, Donna, and Val were the ONLY ones who didn't do that.

 

[Mustard]

I think Jimmy Todd meant examples of Pam and Donna siding with JR when it was beneficial to them.

Pam and J.R. had a brief alliance against Guzzler (Bobby's friend).

 

[Luke_Krebbs_Ewing]

Pam and J.R. had a brief alliance against Guzzler (Bobby's friend).

Well he was an obnoxious git who was only playing on Bobby's high school feelings for him.

That was probably the only time in the shows history that JR & Pam actually agreed on anything.

 

[Snowcat]

I would include Donna in that list.
Also, as I have said before, I believe JR had such hatred for Pam, Valene and Donna was because they were the only ones he couldn't corrupt or beguile with his charm. He tried to bribe/blackmail all three, but it didn't work. He had to resort to basically cowardly bully tactics with Valene.

I think it’s because there was no blood tie. JR & Bobby loved each other no matter how much they battled.

 

[Taylor Bennett Jr.]

Well he [Guzzler] was an obnoxious git who was only playing on Bobby's high school feelings for him.

time to head over to that thread about the site’s “Reaction function” and argue for the inclusion of a “most strenuously disagree with this preposterous outright slander and grievous defamation of character” option!

 

[Chris2]

I think it’s because there was no blood tie. JR & Bobby loved each other no matter how much they battled.

I didn’t get that sense in the early seasons, but from midway through to the end, yes. There’s that touching scene (part of Pam’s dream of course) where JR is in Bobby’s empty office and says that although he now controls all of Ewing Oil, he’d give it up if he could just have Bobby back to fight with again.

What also hurt the series - aside from Victoria’s departure - was that JR pretty much crossed the line from a business partnership standpoint with Bobby at the same time. I would have preferred to see the Ewing brothers work together and their relationship deepen as they tried to rebuild the family empire.