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Uhh..cheating with her sister. Afton in their bed is a close second, IMHO. and letting her take the blame for Mickey's accident, except I'm a little fuzzy on how that all went down at this point.
One could say marrying her in the first place??
One could say marrying her in the first place??
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I thought Sue Ellen got off easy for Mickey’s accident.. did she even get a DUI? She was probably going to smash into something whether “world’s dumbest would-be assassin” Walt Driscoll was there or not.
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Yes, marrying her.
JR was one of those people who is brilliantly clever in certain ways, predatorily instinctive. But he's ultimately self-destructive, emotionally stupid, so he winds up savaging -- sometimes gleefully -- the person closest to him. He can only lose in the long run, and he's probably even resigned to that fate.
JR could want but he couldn't love. His control issues were just too pronounced.
But Sue Ellen was too hard to sympathize with, quite despicable in her own right. Just as selfish, and always able to fall back on her nasty husband to excuse her own behavior.
Which made the show Biblical in a way, very Old Testament.
And screw the idea that JR & Sue Ellen were "good parents." That's utterly ridiculous.
JR was one of those people who is brilliantly clever in certain ways, predatorily instinctive. But he's ultimately self-destructive, emotionally stupid, so he winds up savaging -- sometimes gleefully -- the person closest to him. He can only lose in the long run, and he's probably even resigned to that fate.
JR could want but he couldn't love. His control issues were just too pronounced.
But Sue Ellen was too hard to sympathize with, quite despicable in her own right. Just as selfish, and always able to fall back on her nasty husband to excuse her own behavior.
Which made the show Biblical in a way, very Old Testament.
And screw the idea that JR & Sue Ellen were "good parents." That's utterly ridiculous.
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No one on Dallas was a good parent.
I wouldn't say CHEATING with Kimberly was the worst thing JR ever did to SE, but I would say setting SE up to catch them in bed together was the worst thing he ever did to her. Sure, it didn't work out the way he had planned, but he was creating the EXACT scene that happened with Holly and he knew that almost destroyed her, got a man killed, and ultimately led to the fire at South Fork. That's a new low, even for JR.
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She never got a DUI after the accident that almost killed her unborn child either.