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Message: <blockquote data-quote="A Nightmare on Jimmy Todd Street" data-source="post: 400372" data-attributes="member: 3926">I agree with everything [USER=1183]@Jock's Ghost[/USER] said, except that Miss Ellie was a moron. She was deeply flawed and lived in denial. It was appalling how she and Jock openly favored Gary and Bobby over JR, but I wouldn't go so far as to say she was a "moron."   [USER=1183]@Jock's Ghost[/USER] makes an intriguing point about JR being a tragic figure.  It's not so much as he wasn't thanked, but that it seems he was always trying to get his Daddy's approval since he was a boy, but no matter what he did or how hard he worked he knew Bobby would be his Daddy's favorite.  He probably long ago gave up on trying to get his mama's approval.  This resentment and bitterness probably informed his entire life since it began at such a young age.   There should have been a few scenes in which JR and Katherine bonded over their resentment of their siblings. JR could have told her stories from his youth and she could have told stories about her childhood with her father, whose company Rebecca divided between her, Vliff and Pam, two people who never even met her father.</blockquote>