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<blockquote data-quote="James from London" data-source="post: 343379" data-attributes="member: 22">I loved the way Holly incorporated Sue Ellen in her scheme against JR, not least because it put Sue Ellen front and centre of the series again after two-thirds of a season where she hadn&#039;t really had much to do and was starting to look like a spent force, dramatically speaking.That&#039;s the paradox for people who adore Sue Ellen and/or identify with her and root for her. The more she&#039;s suffering, the more screen time she&#039;s gonna get and the more you get to see Linda Gray doing what she does so well. The happier and more content she is, the further removed from the action she becomes and so she ends up in the background not taking up much space. I guess one solution would be to turn her into some kind of lawyer or investigator with a case of the week which she invariably solves, but that would mean twisting both her character and the show into something unrecognisable.As for Holly getting what she deserved, well, sleeping with JR cost her whatever chance she had of getting together with Bobby and for a girl in the &#039;80s Dallasverse, what bigger punishment could there be?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="James from London, post: 343379, member: 22"] I loved the way Holly incorporated Sue Ellen in her scheme against JR, not least because it put Sue Ellen front and centre of the series again after two-thirds of a season where she hadn't really had much to do and was starting to look like a spent force, dramatically speaking. That's the paradox for people who adore Sue Ellen and/or identify with her and root for her. The more she's suffering, the more screen time she's gonna get and the more you get to see Linda Gray doing what she does so well. The happier and more content she is, the further removed from the action she becomes and so she ends up in the background not taking up much space. I guess one solution would be to turn her into some kind of lawyer or investigator with a case of the week which she invariably solves, but that would mean twisting both her character and the show into something unrecognisable. As for Holly getting what she deserved, well, sleeping with JR cost her whatever chance she had of getting together with Bobby and for a girl in the '80s Dallasverse, what bigger punishment could there be? [/QUOTE]

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Who played JR Ewing?