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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DallasFanForever" data-source="post: 372369" data-attributes="member: 13221">Clayton was a very good man, a better man than Jock in many ways. I know most people prefer Miss Ellie with Clayton for those reasons but I still preferred her and Jock as a couple. I think the watershed moment for the Clayton character was when he admitted to Donna and Ray that Dusty wasn’t really his son. That was the moment we realized there might have been a lot more to this character than we originally thought. In retrospect I think making Dusty Jessica’s son was a nice touch, as it certainly explained her obsession to keep Miss Ellie away from him and Clayton. But Clayton was always likable to me regardless of the situation. Even in admitting to covering up Dusty’s true parentage all those years I still felt sorry for him despite his secrecy. I even felt sorry for the character during the entire Laurel Ellis storyline so maybe that’s all a tribute to Howard Keel and the fine actor he was. He seemed to be able to shine no matter what they had in store for Clayton storyline-wise.</blockquote>