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<blockquote data-quote="Toni" data-source="post: 320345" data-attributes="member: 82">OG Season 6 was the last one JR could be scary for everyone (even for Miss Ellie since he targeted Clayton). After that, he focused on his business rivals and on &quot;poor, darling&quot; Pam. But he also forgot about her when Bobby returned and became the victim of almost everyone. Need to get rid of Calhoun? Bring Ray and Bobby to kill him off. Need to get Ewing Oil back? He decided to fight the (physically) weakest man in Dallas, Dr. Styles. The same for Cally´s brothers, cocaine-addict Tommy, Cally herself, etc. In the vintage days, JR could do &quot;anything&quot; to get revenge or get what he wanted. Val´s panic was a good proof of that (though, after all, it was VAL who we are talking about...).&quot;With JR everything is about secrecy&quot;, I think that Pam told Bobby once, and it is true. He needed the writers to keep a part of his dirty tricks in the shadows, and at the end, when McSween was fired, he only got that sex-obsessed, goofy detective. It was ludicrous. At least TNT Dallas corrected that and gave him a good enough henchman with Bum. After Pam´s accident, JR started to act out-of-character and turn into someone who homaged himself often, with so many JR-isms. It looked as if JR himself was a bit tired of being JR... He wasn´t scary, he did just what any (unethical) business man would do, like blackmailing The Jeremy to get his properties back.JR was the man who drank alone in his office at night when sister-in-laws hit the streets... He only had to blink to make Swellin tremble just thinking of the sanitarium... But also everybody in the oil business was afraid and/or angry with him, and those were the powerful men (and a few women) in Dallas. Did he need to be softened? I don´t think so. Especially when in the latter seasons also characters like Cliff and McKay also were softened. What was left? Sheila Foley and Lee Ann de la Vega, who sort of castrated both Bobby and JR. Go figure...[ATTACH=full]36890[/ATTACH]
See here Lee Ann´s fashions when she dated JR as Ms. Nelson!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Toni, post: 320345, member: 82"] OG Season 6 was the last one JR could be scary for everyone (even for Miss Ellie since he targeted Clayton). After that, he focused on his business rivals and on "poor, darling" Pam. But he also forgot about her when Bobby returned and became the victim of almost everyone. Need to get rid of Calhoun? Bring Ray and Bobby to kill him off. Need to get Ewing Oil back? He decided to fight the (physically) weakest man in Dallas, Dr. Styles. The same for Cally´s brothers, cocaine-addict Tommy, Cally herself, etc. In the vintage days, JR could do "anything" to get revenge or get what he wanted. Val´s panic was a good proof of that (though, after all, it was VAL who we are talking about...). "With JR everything is about secrecy", I think that Pam told Bobby once, and it is true. He needed the writers to keep a part of his dirty tricks in the shadows, and at the end, when McSween was fired, he only got that sex-obsessed, goofy detective. It was ludicrous. At least TNT Dallas corrected that and gave him a good enough henchman with Bum. After Pam´s accident, JR started to act out-of-character and turn into someone who homaged himself often, with so many JR-isms. It looked as if JR himself was a bit tired of being JR... He wasn´t scary, he did just what any (unethical) business man would do, like blackmailing The Jeremy to get his properties back. JR was the man who drank alone in his office at night when sister-in-laws hit the streets... He only had to blink to make Swellin tremble just thinking of the sanitarium... But also everybody in the oil business was afraid and/or angry with him, and those were the powerful men (and a few women) in Dallas. Did he need to be softened? I don´t think so. Especially when in the latter seasons also characters like Cliff and McKay also were softened. What was left? Sheila Foley and Lee Ann de la Vega, who sort of castrated both Bobby and JR. Go figure... [CENTER][ATTACH type="full" alt="1648331331395.png"]36890[/ATTACH] See here Lee Ann´s fashions when she dated JR as Ms. Nelson![/CENTER] [/QUOTE]

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Who played JR Ewing?