The Devil in Miss Ellie

[Luke_Krebbs_Ewing]

I wish they had kept her the way she was in the early days, before she became all soft and the grandma everyone wanted. In the early episodes, she had soft moments but also had a temper and was definitely someone you didn’t want to mess with. She was also an enabler of Sue Ellen’s nastiness towards Pam (she never explicitly put a stop to it, which she should have). And when Valene showed up, Ellie wasn’t at all apologetic of her complicity in keeping her granddaughter away from her mother.

Oh well, I guess people do mellow with age.

Well they did toughen her up in season five because of the sad death of Jim Davis resulting in the departure of Jock.

That was probably a decision by the writers for Miss Ellie to exert a bit more control over JR now that Jock was no longer there.

 

[Laurie Marr]

Miss Ellie was already a master at passive aggression and emotional manipulation. I never found her to be wholesome.