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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James from London" data-source="post: 266341" data-attributes="member: 22">The Ewing Touch (DALLAS, 19 Nov 82) v Ewing vs Ewing (DALLAS, 03 Apr 81)Cliff hits the roof in The Ewing Touch when he finds out he has lost a lucrative oil deal to Bobby because Pam helped charm the McLeish brothers on Bobby's behalf. It's just how he reacted in Election when she accidentally let slip to JR about his dead fiancee. “What you’re saying is unforgivable!” she yelled back then when he  accused her of deliberately betraying him to the Ewings. “What you’re accusing me of is totally untrue!” she yells now when he does the same thing. At this point, he and Rebecca are tight and he warns Pam that if she continues to side with her in-laws, she’ll end up out in the cold: “I won’t be the one to lose the family — you will.” Two years earlier  in Ewing Vs Ewing, he's already made it clear that he wants nothing to do with their mother so when Rebecca suggests to Pam that “maybe the three of us can be a family,” she's talking about Katherine, not Cliff.“Do you remember the good old days when you ran the DOA?” Donna asks Ellie in The Ewing Touch. Ellie does. “It was fun!’ she says. It’s also what led to her and Jock to the brink of divorce. When cautioned in Ewing Vs Ewing that a property settlement could jeopardise the future of Ewing Oil, she is unimpressed. “To hell with the empire!” she snaps. Of course, it’s not the last time she’ll initiate court proceedings that could destroy the company. In fact, her sole reason for attempting to break Jock’s will in '83 is to sell it. In both cases, her closest confidante is a daughter-in-law — but whereas Pam is supportive of her challenging the will, Donna is as dismayed at the prospect of her and Jock divorcing as everyone else. Her remaining daughter-in-law, Sue Ellen, is intrigued by the possible loss of the Ewing empire and wonders “what my JR is  gonna do without his precious little Ewing Oil toy?” This is the same choice of word she used in Ellie Saves the Day when it was JR himself who had jeopardised the company: “[Jock] gave his eldest son the biggest toy a father can give — Ewing Oil — and within two short years, he broke it.”In these two episodes, Miss Ellie goes to court a total of three times. In Ewing Vs Ewing, she’s trying to stop Jock developing Takapa; in The Ewing Touch, she bears witness to both Christopher’s adoption and Lucy’s divorce.Ellie reconciles with Jock at the end of Ewing Vs Ewing after realising that the real issue wasn't Takapa (as if a Ewing’s gonna care that much about the environment), but Gary. “I couldn’t let go of the hope that he’d come back to Southfork,” she admits, adding that it was easier to blame Jock rather than herself when he didn’t. There’s almost an equivalent emotional breakthrough involving Jock, Ellie and Gary in The Ewing Touch, where kindly auto-maintenance man Bud stops by Southfork and gently enquires if Ellie would like him to take Jock’s Lincoln in for servicing. There follows a poignant shot where she watches the car being taken away. There’s no reference to this sequence anywhere else in the ep and my theory is that it was originally intended for inclusion for the earlier episode Aftermath, aka The One After the Reading of Jock’s Will. New Beginnings, the KNOTS crossover ep which runs concurrently with Aftermath, includes this speech from Gary: "I took a taxi out to the ranch. I had the driver drop me off at the fence ... I stood there by it, looking at the property for a long time, remembering how I used to love the ranch but hated being there, hated the way they treated me. All the resentment started boiling up in me again, and as I stood there, somebody drove Daddy's car out, a ranch hand. Daddy always had the biggest model of the biggest car, American of course, and I stood there watching it go down the road away from the ranch, and it was like all of a sudden I realised he was dead and I felt like crying, which surprised me because all I'd been feeling was anger, and as I watched the car go, I felt kinda sad and I realised he was dead, and so were all his thoughts and feelings and opinions, about me included: dead. And it seemed pretty stupid to keep raging against a dead man." So, just as Ellie does in Ewing Vs Ewing, he ends up making peace with Jock without Jock having to do anything.  In spite of his attempts to ride roughshod over Bobby (“I’m not trying to influence you — I’m telling you what I want you to do!”), Jock cuts a vulnerable figure in Ewing vs Ewing, due in large part to Jim Davis’s illness, which makes Miss Ellie’s hostility towards him all the more pronounced. In a way, the sanctification of Jock had already begun.When Holly Harwood propositions JR in '82, he turns her down. “I’m trying to stay pure for my wedding,” he tells her. He’s a little more eager with Leslie Stewart in '81. “I know how you feel about married men — can’t you bend the rules a little?” he pleads, but this time she’s the one playing hard to get. As usual, it’s all about the chase, as she later explains to former husband/victim Craig: “You know those mechanical rabbits running around the racetrack and all those dogs chasing, chasing, running their little legs off? … Once they catch you, then they lose interest.”And the winner is ... The Ewing TouchBONUS BEATS:[MEDIA=youtube]JQz6lS5ZsrE[/MEDIA]</blockquote>

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