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<blockquote data-quote="Taylor Bennett Jr." data-source="post: 206790" data-attributes="member: 2740">sure, but that job is the absolute culmination of an entire life&#039;s work and ambition and obsession.&nbsp; Jock had accomplished that with Ewing Oil and had retired.&nbsp; He hadn&#039;t spent years and years relentlessly campaigning to go on some vague State Department mission to help some unnamed South American country organize its oil industry, leaving his family for months when he normally would get upset if everyone in the family wasn&#039;t home for dinner at 6 every day.&nbsp; It&#039;s just completely at odds with how he&#039;d been portrayed for 3 years on the show, in addition to being fairly absurd that the offer would happen in the first place.I never made it all the way in the series to the Jordan Lee/April storyline, but the Jordan Lee of 1980 certainly didn&#039;t seem like someone who&#039;d be traipsing around Europe wrapped up in some sort of international intrigue 10 years later.&nbsp; (although he *was* virile enough to think he&#039;d impregnated Kristen!). It just seems kind of random that they would have used him for this sort of storyline.(I&#039;d have to have seen Andy in action at the Ewing Rodeo or at least Billy Bob&#039;s before making a judgement on how good of a bullfighter he could have been <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" />)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Taylor Bennett Jr., post: 206790, member: 2740"] sure, but that job is the absolute culmination of an entire life's work and ambition and obsession. Jock had accomplished that with Ewing Oil and had retired. He hadn't spent years and years relentlessly campaigning to go on some vague State Department mission to help some unnamed South American country organize its oil industry, leaving his family for months when he normally would get upset if everyone in the family wasn't home for dinner at 6 every day. It's just completely at odds with how he'd been portrayed for 3 years on the show, in addition to being fairly absurd that the offer would happen in the first place. I never made it all the way in the series to the Jordan Lee/April storyline, but the Jordan Lee of 1980 certainly didn't seem like someone who'd be traipsing around Europe wrapped up in some sort of international intrigue 10 years later. (although he *was* virile enough to think he'd impregnated Kristen!). It just seems kind of random that they would have used him for this sort of storyline. (I'd have to have seen Andy in action at the Ewing Rodeo or at least Billy Bob's before making a judgement on how good of a bullfighter he could have been ;)) [/QUOTE]

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Who played JR Ewing?