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Message: <blockquote data-quote="stevew" data-source="post: 311321" data-attributes="member: 130"><p>I certainly do - certainly not all but many would have been fine to see him morph into the patriarch role.  He was certainly old enough for it and there wasn’t much more he could do without becoming ridiculous - which is what they did.    It doesn’t mean you’d seldom see him or he wouldn’t be important.  Jock was seen a lot and was very important; it just means the heavy lifting, the role of fighting, winning and  losing, and sleeping around, and such would fall more and more on another actor instead of all resting on him.  It became the JR show trying to emulate Dynasty and that just did not work as well as when it was the Ewing show doing their own thing.</p></blockquote><p></p>