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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Brian Kinney" data-source="post: 353150" data-attributes="member: 3219">Miss Ellie clearly fears the distance, being separated from her sons, living far away. This isn't the same as children moving out of their parent's house who stay in the same city. In "From A House Divided" Sue Ellen almost gleeful points out how J.R. drove Gary and Valene away from Southfork. That was, as we know, especially hard for Miss Ellie. She just doesn't want another son far away from Dallas or Texas (Bobby doesn't know where to move to). Also: Miss Ellie is a traditionalist, she doesn't like changes. I think the writers built it up over three seasons how the absent Gary would regularly turn up as a sore thumb in Miss Ellie's life. She doesn't want to happen it again. Anyone who can relate to that probably doesn't find the scene laughable.That's the story and not the adult son who wants to move into his first own apartment because he can't stand his older brother any longer - but this gave Miss Ellie of course also a real motive to shoot J.R.!</blockquote>