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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jabari Lamar" data-source="post: 292508" data-attributes="member: 2208">Sure, could be. But those seem like better reasons for him to want to not be like his parents. A lot of folks here site the big showdown between John Ross and Sue Ellen where he's shouting "I'm not my father!" as a powerful emotional scene, and it was well-acted between Josh and Linda, except the problem for me was that he was acting like his father, by cheating on his wife, which is what Sue Ellen was confronting him on. I think there was more potential for drama if you had John Ross as someone that trying his best to live down his father's reputation and do good, but everyone assumes that he's just like his father so they don't trust him. Meanwhile he sees Christopher gliding through life because he's Bobby Ewing's son, so everyone trusts him, yet he's the one who's quick to stab anyone in the back to get what he wants.Even in-canon, James had no real interest in the oil business, which is why he eventually left. I wouldn't necessarily ignore him, if a good story could be come up for him, but I wouldn't go out of my way to include him beyond maybe some casual mentions, he's off in Vienna or wherever with his own family. So he'd be no worry for adult John Ross.</blockquote>