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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Snarky Oracle!" data-source="post: 402300" data-attributes="member: 57984">I have such mixed feelings about all that. I didn't mind JR becoming a bit more vulnerable in the closing years -- getting kind of burned out. Some people hated that -- they didn't want him "weakened" and therefore humanized; they wanted him full-on sociopath until the end.I, for one, had no issue with JR being softened slightly, even depressed, as the show was aging. It's a slice of life, and I never saw it as the betrayal of the character as some did...But it's the way they did it which was a disaster... Haleyville? The chain gang?? I'm okay even with those things happening, but the silly tone and details was what ruined it... Let JR lose his edge -- that's okay with me, but don't allow the show around him deteriorate simultaneously.Yet they did exactly that.</blockquote>