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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chris2" data-source="post: 383824" data-attributes="member: 495">As the series went on, the writers made both Ellie and Jock out to be nicer people than what we saw at the beginning of the series. Ellie lecturing JR and Bobby on how they didn’t live up to Jock’s moral standards was silly. This is the Jock who was complicit in having Jonas Culver institutionalized so he and Sam Culver could take control of his land. Jonas committed suicide while he was locked up. Not very nice. This is also the Jock who said that women belonged in the bedroom not the boardroom and that Ewing Oil’s head of marketing was “uppity.” And the same Jock who drove the farmer from “The Dove Hunt” into bankruptcy by leaning on the farmer’s customers not to buy his crops, again so that Jock could snatch the land. And of course, we had the original premise of Jock taking full financial control of the oil claim he discovered with Digger, before that was retconned to make Jock look like a saint.Ellie wasn’t always wonderful early on either. We’ve already discussed her part in keeping Lucy from Valene. Sue Ellen told a friend once that when Ellie Ewing called, you didn’t keep her waiting. That leads me to believe that Sue Ellen did keep her waiting once and dealt with Ellie’s not-so-pleasant side. We also saw this side of her when she froze out Ray after it was revealed he was a Ewing, and when she was nasty to Donna after Donna found out about the Jonas Culver situation.</blockquote>

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