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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DallasFanForever" data-source="post: 386799" data-attributes="member: 13221">I agree. I thought Jamie and Cliff were good together. She allowed us to see a different side of Cliff we never got a chance to see historically. For once he seemed to genuinely care for someone beside himself but ultimately they weren’t Afton and Cliff for me. I found them to be way more fun. Cliff continuously treating Afton like dirt and not seeing how much she really did care about him was always highly entertaining. I guess if we go by this season he technically staged his own suicide with the plane crash and then went off looking for a cure. I don’t mind that part but I know what you mean. The plane crashes were getting very redundant at this point. I’m one of the few here that didn’t mind Jenna’s breakdown. I actually like the buildup all season as she sinks deeper and deeper into that dark place. Those kinds of things can have a long delay for some people so I didn’t find the breakdown happening that late in the season to be such a reach really.I can’t see Jock ever going along with that either. In J.R.’s mind he had to feel like the only family member left that cared about the company anymore. I can see why Miss Ellie would want to sell after Bobby’s death though. After losing a son the oil business didn’t matter anymore. Plus Bobby had asked for all the fighting to stop on his deathbed, and Ewing Oil was always a main source of that fighting. I’m not a fan of the storyline myself.  I felt it was so far removed from even being Dallas related, although I did like Angelica. Maybe with a different storyline she’d be more fondly remembered. Totally agree. Without her story this season is nowhere near as entertaining. The alcoholism, winning custody of her son but then allowing him to stay at Southfork, her relationship with her mother being given more depth, going to work for Mark, reconciling with J.R., and of course her eventual tragic role in the cliffhanger, Sue Ellen is the star of this season for me. One couldn’t be the same without the other. The quarreling brothers was one of the basic premises of the show. When it was gone J.R.’s character suffered and Jack couldn’t fill that void. J.R. going into Bobby’s office like he’s still there and talking to him at his desk is the closest we get this season. It’s very powerful, but it also illustrates what we’ve lost unfortunately.</blockquote>

Verification: Who played JR Ewing?