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<blockquote data-quote="Taylor Bennett Jr." data-source="post: 179025" data-attributes="member: 2740">for all of JR’s boasting about his wonderful success, what evidence was there that he was anything but a guy who was born on 3rd base and thought he hit a triple?&nbsp; He could pull off clever schemes here and there, but at any given point it seems he could have driven the company right off the cliff.Sure, the Asian oil strike took the Ewings to the next level, but he was hours away from losing everything, and helped get himself in that situation in the first place by continuing to antagonize Cliff to the point where he ‘sold out’ to take the OLM position and abused his powers there to prevent drilling. (Although Cliff likely would have tried to bring the Ewings down the rest of his life anyway, of course)What on earth was he expecting the ultimate outcome of the phony Section 40 codicil situation to be with Ames and Garr if the big dummies hadn’t conveniently done themselves in?Bobby only got in any trouble in his first stint as Ewing Oil president due to JR doing everything he could to undermine and outright sabotage him.&nbsp; If Bobby had done the same to JR, he could have done a lot worse than have him a bit short of the cash needed to go into a smaller offshore deal with the Cartel.Of course, I think it was largely the writers’ desire to have us see Bobby as the good guy and JR as the villain that led them to make it look like he could jump right in and do just as well as JR in the president’s chair.&nbsp; They should have shown more evidence of JR’s legit business acumen (other than the ability to trick and blackmail his colleagues) if they wanted us to take him seriously as the clearly superior businessman.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Taylor Bennett Jr., post: 179025, member: 2740"] for all of JR’s boasting about his wonderful success, what evidence was there that he was anything but a guy who was born on 3rd base and thought he hit a triple? He could pull off clever schemes here and there, but at any given point it seems he could have driven the company right off the cliff. Sure, the Asian oil strike took the Ewings to the next level, but he was hours away from losing everything, and helped get himself in that situation in the first place by continuing to antagonize Cliff to the point where he ‘sold out’ to take the OLM position and abused his powers there to prevent drilling. (Although Cliff likely would have tried to bring the Ewings down the rest of his life anyway, of course) What on earth was he expecting the ultimate outcome of the phony Section 40 codicil situation to be with Ames and Garr if the big dummies hadn’t conveniently done themselves in? Bobby only got in any trouble in his first stint as Ewing Oil president due to JR doing everything he could to undermine and outright sabotage him. If Bobby had done the same to JR, he could have done a lot worse than have him a bit short of the cash needed to go into a smaller offshore deal with the Cartel. Of course, I think it was largely the writers’ desire to have us see Bobby as the good guy and JR as the villain that led them to make it look like he could jump right in and do just as well as JR in the president’s chair. They should have shown more evidence of JR’s legit business acumen (other than the ability to trick and blackmail his colleagues) if they wanted us to take him seriously as the clearly superior businessman. [/QUOTE]

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