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<blockquote data-quote="Kenny Coyote" data-source="post: 201367" data-attributes="member: 102">That certainly didn&#039;t put Ellie in a sympathetic light, did it? For a woman who treated even one of her adult sons moving into his own home as &quot;losing a son&quot;, she certainly didn&#039;t seem to be taking very good care of her sons did she. That&#039;s such blatant favoritism to give everything to one son. She should have been bright enough to realize the resentment that could create among her sons too. Isn&#039;t it interesting that this is the same woman who, regarding Jock&#039;s will, basically tried to rewrite Jock&#039;s will so that his will, literally his last request, became her will? Somehow I don&#039;t think she&#039;d have liked for Jock to be able to rewrite her will, yet she felt entitled to try to rewrite his will, just because she didn&#039;t agree with it.&nbsp; Then she does something as destructive as giving Bobby everything! How was she somehow the authority on the fair way to distribute things to their sons?Jock&#039;s will was controversial, but at least he didn&#039;t give everything to one son and leave the rest out in the cold. Jock believed that outright leaving control of Ewing Oil to one son without even giving the other a chance at it was unfair, so he created the idea of leaving it to the son who could prove he was the man most capable of running it. That gave both Bobby and JR an opportunity to show what he could do. Wow, deciding who should run a company based on merit - what a novel idea! Even then, at the end he said he really didn&#039;t care which son won, that the purpose of the contest was to get JR and Bobby to respect each other&#039;s abilities and to realize they had far more potential working together than apart. That was brilliant. It&#039;s really stunning to me that as much as Ellie whined and bellyached over how unfair she thought Jock&#039;s will was, that she&#039;d do something so much worse when it came do distributing her own assets.I agree that&#039;s vital. One option he had besides hiring new people to help him run Dallas or hire new writers was to at least bring a couple guys in temporarily as consultants - people who could look at his situation with &quot;new eyes&quot; and give him an objective perspective on what he was doing wrong with Dallas and what types of changes would best benefit the show.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kenny Coyote, post: 201367, member: 102"] That certainly didn't put Ellie in a sympathetic light, did it? For a woman who treated even one of her adult sons moving into his own home as "losing a son", she certainly didn't seem to be taking very good care of her sons did she. That's such blatant favoritism to give everything to one son. She should have been bright enough to realize the resentment that could create among her sons too. Isn't it interesting that this is the same woman who, regarding Jock's will, basically tried to rewrite Jock's will so that his will, literally his last request, became her will? Somehow I don't think she'd have liked for Jock to be able to rewrite her will, yet she felt entitled to try to rewrite his will, just because she didn't agree with it. Then she does something as destructive as giving Bobby everything! How was she somehow the authority on the fair way to distribute things to their sons? Jock's will was controversial, but at least he didn't give everything to one son and leave the rest out in the cold. Jock believed that outright leaving control of Ewing Oil to one son without even giving the other a chance at it was unfair, so he created the idea of leaving it to the son who could prove he was the man most capable of running it. That gave both Bobby and JR an opportunity to show what he could do. Wow, deciding who should run a company based on merit - what a novel idea! Even then, at the end he said he really didn't care which son won, that the purpose of the contest was to get JR and Bobby to respect each other's abilities and to realize they had far more potential working together than apart. That was brilliant. It's really stunning to me that as much as Ellie whined and bellyached over how unfair she thought Jock's will was, that she'd do something so much worse when it came do distributing her own assets. I agree that's vital. One option he had besides hiring new people to help him run Dallas or hire new writers was to at least bring a couple guys in temporarily as consultants - people who could look at his situation with "new eyes" and give him an objective perspective on what he was doing wrong with Dallas and what types of changes would best benefit the show. [/QUOTE]

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