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<blockquote data-quote="Snarky Oracle!" data-source="post: 339174" data-attributes="member: 57984">Those things gave JR additional dimension (which I&#039;m all for) so I&#039;m not sure that they made JR seem less scary. The shift into JR seeming less malevolent was, to me, a gradual thing, and it really didn&#039;t bother me until he -- and the show -- eventually became more overtly &quot;comic&quot; in the closing years.I don&#039;t really find that there was a fatal line crossed which modified JR&#039;s villainy; it just sort of happened over time. And some of it became a mistake.There weren&#039;t really any good-ole-boys who could&#039;ve taken out Calhoun. He was upwards on the food chain from that... which is why the Ewing brothers&#039; successful taking him out at that amusement park seemed improbable at best. But it was time to wrap up the story.Same with Jeremy Wendell: the Ewings&#039; ease with which they had him arrested and imprisoned was never very believable.But then Katzman&#039;s presentation of the Ewing men being &quot;strong&quot; always felt kind of silly. Only Jock&#039;s Mephistophelean &quot;power&quot; ever came off as a force to be reckoned with.JR could be a scary bastard in the early years, but at the end of the day, he was just a spoiled rich kid cock-of-the-walk.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Snarky Oracle!, post: 339174, member: 57984"] Those things gave JR additional dimension (which I'm all for) so I'm not sure that they made JR seem less scary. The shift into JR seeming less malevolent was, to me, a gradual thing, and it really didn't bother me until he -- and the show -- eventually became more overtly "comic" in the closing years. I don't really find that there was a fatal line crossed which modified JR's villainy; it just sort of happened over time. And some of it became a mistake. There weren't really any good-ole-boys who could've taken out Calhoun. He was upwards on the food chain from that... which is why the Ewing brothers' successful taking him out at that amusement park seemed improbable at best. But it was time to wrap up the story. Same with Jeremy Wendell: the Ewings' ease with which they had him arrested and imprisoned was never very believable. But then Katzman's presentation of the Ewing men being "strong" always felt kind of silly. Only Jock's Mephistophelean "power" ever came off as a force to be reckoned with. JR could be a scary bastard in the early years, but at the end of the day, he was just a spoiled rich kid cock-of-the-walk. [/QUOTE]

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