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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mustard" data-source="post: 398844" data-attributes="member: 46">The look and clothes, deferring to Clayton on more occasions and having ranching purely as a distant past heritage.Barbara's Miss Ellie dressed down a lot more, argued her corner most times and sometimes was determined to get her own way, and a rancher's daughter was her first and most important identity even as she took a lot of the Ewing qualities too.I thought Donna as Miss Ellie was okay, but she was never going to be better than okay, and I think the main reason was how Donna interpreted the character of Miss Ellie and the more limitations as a result. Barbara's Miss Ellie took bits of different philosophies, like once being Digger's girlfriend, married Jock for business reasons to save Southfork and then worked on their marriage, taking bits of the Ewing outlook but always remaining true to the Southworth traditions of the land, and this results in harder and deeper emotions across the spectrum. Pam has similar in being a Barnes, who as a teenager hated the Ewings more than Cliff, and she later married a Ewing. In their younger years, while Cliff worked hard to become a lawyer and dreamed of holding the Ewings to account, Pam was engaging in vandalism of Ewing property and getting away with it. This flipped later so that Pam became a Ewing and saw the Barnes-Ewing feud as childish and silly, while Cliff became increasingly bitter as he kept being bested by J.R. Ewing. These dynamics all made Dallas tick as a show for years and years.</blockquote>

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