I accept that I am obsessed with Tim .... however, here is my clinching argument for his personality disorder:
- Tim marries Marion, but how such an ill-matched pair came together is a mystery.
- He has a bad rodeo accident, starts on drugs and alcohol, leaves Marion and never sees her again.
- He meets Miranda and has a child with her: Shane.
- They split up and he abandons Shane.
- The years go by with no contact with Marion and his daughters, though he does at one point write to Marion asking if they can get back together; she ignores his letter and doesn't tell his daughters .....
- Marion has "a friendship" with Victor Whitetail.
- Marion is killed and Tim re-enters the family circle.
- Victor visits the ranch to see Amy, and Tim finds about about Victor's "friendship" with Marion, which he then obsesses about and pesters Jack for more information, referring to Victor as "...moving in on my wife."
A question for you: Have you ever promised to X (WITHOUT CONSULTING THEM) that Y will do something that will cost Y money, time, effort or convenience to gain some advantage for yourself?
I can't remember ever doing that, but Tim does it frequently - particularly with Amy. After a brief period of quasi-normal behaviour he resorts to various desperate ploys to gain joint custody of Shane, including standing for election to a cowboy post whose name I forget, but currently and usually held by Stumpy . Meeting a reporter in Maggie's he offers her a free stay at the Dude Ranch (which of course is nothing to do with him whatsoever) if she will publish a favourable article about him during the election campaign.
After messing about with sheep-riding lessons for kiddies (again leaving Amy in the lurch more than once) his next ploy is to marry Janice to give him "a stable home environment" which will impress the custody judge .....
At dinner one evening he launches into a rant about family values, togetherness and so on ......this time seriously trying the patience of Lou ......
THEN when Janice says she would like to have children with the man who supposedly loves her (casting aside her usual hard exterior after admitting to Lou that seeing Lou with Katy inspired her) he has a hissy-fit ..... he is beyond parody.
Tim is obviously written as a character designed to irritate the hell out of people, and they have really succeeded with me!
You can't really have a more absurd view of your rights than that, can you? He has absolutely no idea about appropriacy; he is completely unable to empathise, which is actually a major feature of a sociopath!
I rest my case!
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Miranda and Shane turn up at the ranch and bump into Tim. He lived with her for a while and had a son, Shane.
"Do I know you?" are his first words to Miranda!
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SHE is justifiably baffled and no doubt irritated
at such a comment from the father of her son ....
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