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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jock Ewing Fan" data-source="post: 351684" data-attributes="member: 40536">Let's expand on her mourning.It is fiction, so it is was is.  But what if Ellie's mourning was more layered?When Jock was alive, Ellie was an unquestioned power in Dallas, in Texas, in Ewing Oil just by having Jock.When Jock passed, JR and Bobby, as majority owners of Ewing Oil, had more power, it seems.Ellie may have had an informal power role, but not the final say, or access to final say.Maybe Ellie was also mourning a loss of status, and had another motive to sell Ewing Oil.Not a majority opinion, I suppose, but food for thought.BBG was unquestionably a great actress, and I respect her, but I never cared for the Miss Ellie character - I always thought she was self-righteous, hypocritical, and significantly responsible for shaping the man that JR became.  If JR was denied maternal love, and became so promiscuous, any psychologist/psychiatrist could connect those dots.  Miss Ellie was happy to live a life of wealth and privilege, and ignore Jock and JR' dealings, as long as it benefitted her.Again, this is about Miss Ellie the character, not the great BBG</blockquote>