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Message: <blockquote data-quote="stevew" data-source="post: 124737" data-attributes="member: 130"><p>I think is is the problem, characters not growing, just staying as they are.  With that, of course the show eventually wears out, JR only has so much of a span where he can keep doing something interesting.  But loosing her grandfather would be scary to her, a wake up and force to take care of herself.  She was popular, and with friends around her she could grow up. I’m not saying it’s in character for her to sit behind a desk and run Ewing Oil, but she could have some friends who help her out, like Angela Channing lawyers and husbands.   “Well JR, you might be right.  I might not be scary.  But Joe here, he’s a different sort of creature all together.”   Maybe even a brief marriage to Jeremy Wendell could have played the catalyst.  The point isn’t even so much Lucy, but that they needed to change the dynamic as events changed, not just JR verses everyone until JR and everyone has burned out.</p></blockquote><p></p>