Lucy -- family annihilator?

[Snarky Oracle!]

Someone once said, "I've never met a single Sagittarian I thought was completely sane."

Should Lucy have gone off the deep end at some point? Perhaps earlier than we could have realized??

And she had Just Cause, if you ask me.... Whenever J.R. was insulting everybody in the dining room or over the dinner table, Miss Ellie refused to say a word ---- until Lucy spoke up. And Ellie, ever so passive-aggressive, would snap, "Lucy, hush..!" (As if her granddaughter had started it).

After everybody murdered Mickey Trotter, I envisioned Lucy going nuts and hiding at one end of the Southfork kitchen with a butcher knife, waiting to kill Sue Ellen... Of course, DALLAS was never going to do that. But wasn't I surprised when, a few months later, the moment I'd conjured was played out between Lady Jessica and her pondering over slicing or quartering Miss Ellie.

Sure, Jock spoiled the poisoned dwarf, but after his chopper careened into Matthew Blaisdel's jeep "in South America," Lucy was perpetually neglected, demeaned, made fun of, dumped by death or divorce, and was even ignored by her parents in California for 15 years and never allowed to visit.

I think Lucy was more damaged and vindictive than people generally believed. And she had the money to do something about it.

How many of the tragedies and myriad deaths that befell the Ewings were really byzantine, rococo plots of vengeance planned out and executed by Lucy? All while no one was looking, Lucy's usual dismissal by the family a fatal mistake...

Did she have some role in Pam's shadowy disappearance? Sure, Lucy hated Katherine, but we were never sure if Pam's half-sister was dead or alive at any given moment anyway... Was Angelica Nero hired to massacre the Ewings, a single late night phonecall from Atlanta the only contact required to put the scheme into action?

More importantly, and most plausibly, was Lucy in cahoots with Jeremy Wendell? After J.R. reneged on his promise to oversee his parents' divorce and turn Ewing Oil over to Weststar in 1981, Wendell might have found Lucy a useful moll inside the ranch house at Southfork... Or perhaps Jeremy was working for Lucy; in her possession, old photos of Wendell and much of the cartel in their early years, those compromising snapshots taken by a very young Jessida Farlow.

Blackmail, revenge and murder.


So innocent. So sweet. So homicidal.

 

[Monzo]

There were some very interesting—and well-founded—arguments for having Lucy snap, yet I’m glad they resisted the temptation. I think that by the time such a possibility existed, Dynasty already had Claudia and Falcon Crest had Emma (and later Julia); had Dallas done the same, it would have looked like they were stealing ideas from other soaps—something they naturally wanted to avoid.

I’m glad Lucy stayed true to herself. Sure, I could have imagined her suddenly taking an interest in work, joining Ewing Oil, and—after another clash with J.R.—leaking company secrets to Jeremy Wendell. But when it comes to that kind of twist, I found Sly’s betrayal—committed to help her brother (why did we never get to meet him?)—far more compelling.

Lucy could have gone to see Dr. Elby after he helped Sue Ellen. That might have inspired her to become a therapist herself—both to help others and to work through her own issues. I could picture Lucy falling for a hot married patient, which would have really complicated things.

Looking at what actually happened on the show, I would have liked to see Lucy more involved in Sue Ellen’s movie project in season 12. Aside from that, I still wonder what the original plan for Lucy was when she was brought back at the end of season 11, especially considering the behind-the-scenes changes that followed in season 12.