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<blockquote data-quote="Mustard" data-source="post: 153533" data-attributes="member: 46">I agree with nearly all of what you say, especially about the classic couples from the great seasons that we all know and love.Regarding the late seasons, with J.R. and Cally, J.R. only wanted to bed her at first certainly, but I think he grew to love her in his own way. She was so nice, yet so vulnerable, &quot;innocent&quot;, &quot;unspoiled&quot; and easy to manipulate, so that turned J.R. on. Cally also became more sex mad than J.R. after their Dallas second wedding. She got insanely jealous and paranoid when he went to business meetings. I actually think they missed a storyline opportunity by not having Cally bed Alex as payback when she falsely thought that J.R. had cheated on her. It would have been very ironic had Cally cheated on J.R. through her own paranoia before he had cheated on her. Even later on after their marriage had fallen apart, J.R. would have got a kick out of the fact that Cally went from a &quot;dumb hick&quot; when he met her who, through meeting J.R., went on to make something better of herself. He left her to her new life rather than chase after her.Regarding James and Michelle, I think this was a case of a usual user in her relationships in Michelle falling hard for James, trying to mask her real feelings for some time, and being unable to cope with the fact he only lusted her and it didn&#039;t go beyond that for him. In contrast to hard Michelle become softer and more vulnerable over time with the James situation, James went the other way in being soft at first and becoming harder over time. James was so naive and optimistic when he arrived thinking &quot;I&#039;ve found my father, it&#039;s going to be great&quot; etc, yet he became very cynical later, went to war with J.R. for a while but then got on good terms with J.R. again to some extent. Like he learned to accept his father for what he was. If anything, James was more disinterested in Michelle by the latter episodes than he had ever been, while Michelle had never been so hopelessly in love and heartbroken.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mustard, post: 153533, member: 46"] I agree with nearly all of what you say, especially about the classic couples from the great seasons that we all know and love. Regarding the late seasons, with J.R. and Cally, J.R. only wanted to bed her at first certainly, but I think he grew to love her in his own way. She was so nice, yet so vulnerable, "innocent", "unspoiled" and easy to manipulate, so that turned J.R. on. Cally also became more sex mad than J.R. after their Dallas second wedding. She got insanely jealous and paranoid when he went to business meetings. I actually think they missed a storyline opportunity by not having Cally bed Alex as payback when she falsely thought that J.R. had cheated on her. It would have been very ironic had Cally cheated on J.R. through her own paranoia before he had cheated on her. Even later on after their marriage had fallen apart, J.R. would have got a kick out of the fact that Cally went from a "dumb hick" when he met her who, through meeting J.R., went on to make something better of herself. He left her to her new life rather than chase after her. Regarding James and Michelle, I think this was a case of a usual user in her relationships in Michelle falling hard for James, trying to mask her real feelings for some time, and being unable to cope with the fact he only lusted her and it didn't go beyond that for him. In contrast to hard Michelle become softer and more vulnerable over time with the James situation, James went the other way in being soft at first and becoming harder over time. James was so naive and optimistic when he arrived thinking "I've found my father, it's going to be great" etc, yet he became very cynical later, went to war with J.R. for a while but then got on good terms with J.R. again to some extent. Like he learned to accept his father for what he was. If anything, James was more disinterested in Michelle by the latter episodes than he had ever been, while Michelle had never been so hopelessly in love and heartbroken. [/QUOTE]

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