Ray was also flawed in a different way to Gary. Gary would beat himself up for his faults, but he rarely lacked self-esteem like Ray did. Gary would be confident, do something, mess up, attack himself for his mistakes, then move on with a certain confidence still. Ray would do something like it's his macho duty to do so, mess up, attack himself and let self-pity overwhelm him, take it out on others (often Donna) while self-pitying himself some more. I think this is due to Gary growing up as a Ewing, while Ray never truly felt he belonged.
Miss Ellie is a wonderful character, but flawed in that she openly favored Gary over her other boys, which is odd for a mother. However, she did admit to her faults to Gary and Val, so she deserves credit for that. It's not easy to be a parent and to admit you faults. So I would put Miss Ellie in the category of basically good but flawed as we all are
Donna is the only one who comes close.
Ellie is "mostly" good. But she very often pitted her sons against each other. She also sat back and did nothing while JR and Sue Ellen were in open warfare, having affairs, getting drunk, etc while they were traumatizing a child being raised in her house. She was complicit in stealing Lucy from Gary and Val. She gave Southfork to Bobby, choosing to discard the claims of her other two sons.
Miss Ellie is a wonderful character, but flawed in that she openly favored Gary over her other boys, which is odd for a mother. However, she did admit to her faults to Gary and Val, so she deserves credit for that. It's not easy to be a parent and to admit you faults. So I would put Miss Ellie in the category of basically good but flawed as we all are
Maybe it's because I have an adopted sister, but I see no difference between blood children and adopted children when it comes to birthright.
Molly was born in 1993. Gary eventually became a proper father to Bobby and Betsy, so I'm sure he'd have done the same with Molly in time. Brian didn't like it much (nor Val), but it's obvious what Kate wanted.
Of course there are no differences legally. My half-siblings are vermin though. And will-wise, their scheming, swarming, muscling in on my action and trying to get a slice of the pie before it was too late resulted in they and their progeny (joint second nastiest human beings I’ve ever had the misfortune to meet) being either left out or reduced to tiny fractions. Without them being beneficiaries of any trusts that I am involved with. As it should be. Any half-sibling coming from my mother was ultimately left out by my father inheritance-wise.
Well I am sure Gary must have told his mother about his kids at some point. I mean he and Val got remarried in april 1991 so if they hadn't told his family about the kids before then they must have at that point. But yeah it's a shame that we never saw Miss Ellie meet her grandkids. She totally should have crossed over to KL at some point. But it's also possible they would have told Miss Ellie about it after the kids found out, which was in march 1990.
