Peter Richards storyline

Luke_Krebbs_Ewing

Luke_Krebbs_Ewing

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Bo Henry said:
But the Peter/Sue Ellen fling had rans its course. Linda Gray didn't really like it.
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Well it wasn't up to Linda, even if she didn't like it!

If Lorimar had wanted to keep Peter around they would've extended Chris Atkins contract.

Whether Linda Gray had liked it or not. :)
 
Ewing4

Ewing4

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I watched it when it first aired and remember thinking as a male teen, why does he what Sue Ellen when he could have Lucy! . But also that Peter was very immature and very manipulative. I’ll quit school if you don’t go out went me, and stalking her around and showing up at the hairdressers or John Ross’ school.
I do agree with an actor who looked and acted older it would have been better. If you look back at Kristen and JR, she was around the same age back then as Peter but come across much more mature and older.
 
Luke_Krebbs_Ewing

Luke_Krebbs_Ewing

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Ewing4 said:
I watched it when it first aired and remember thinking as a male teen, why does he what Sue Ellen when he could have Lucy! . But also that Peter was very immature and very manipulative. I’ll quit school if you don’t go out went me, and stalking her around and showing up at the hairdressers or John Ross’ school.
I do agree with an actor who looked and acted older it would have been better. If you look back at Kristen and JR, she was around the same age back then as Peter but come across much more mature and older.
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To be honest, I think that was the point the storyline was trying to make.

A young innocent sexually aware guy with feelings of love and lust for a much older woman.

What a great storyline. Kudos to Dallas for doing it. :)
 
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Snowcat

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Angela Christmas said:
I think its a reflection of our sexist society. No one seemed to mind JR having a succession of younger lovers. Cally was barely out of school when JR had his wicked way with her. That relationship seemed more creepy than Sue Ellen and Peter

Peter cared for Sue Ellen and would never have treated her abusively and had her under the coercive control that JR. I was more offended by Sue Ellen returning to a man who was abusive than I was about her potentially finding love with a man who was and looked significantly younger than her.
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I thought both JR & Cally and Sue Ellen & Peter were disgusting. Mandy was an adult. That’s the difference. Peter was still in school. I also found Peter very annoying. Had they put him in his mid to late 20s it could have worked better. Maybe made him John Ross’s teacher not camp counselor

I think my main problem with this storyline was Sue Ellen. Watching this as a 40 year old adult now, there are so many times I want to shake her & say “Girl, get some self respect“. Peter was a kid. He was naive and whiny at times. Sue Ellen was just so desperate. I love seeing her as independent like she was in the dream season and at the end.
 
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