Major Nelson had a fiance when he met Jeannie and at least two different ex-girlfriends appear in the series…
There was at least two episodes when consent wasn’t a problem from Jeannie’s POV: She had an amnesiac Maj. Nelson at the alter and an accidently under the magical influence (ate some Jeannie potion) Major ready to roll too. Roger Healy saved the day in both cases.
http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/EpisodeGuideSummary/showid-608/season-1
Jeannie was no one’s passive slave. Yes, she had to obey her master’s orders (or perhaps more accurately couldn’t disobey a direct order), but she could be clever, guileful and stubborn about getting her own way. She was in love with Nelson, but would have been very unhappy with him simply ordering her to have sex with him.
IMHO, I.D.O.J. was a much better feminist parable than Bewitched: a beautiful, smart, powerful and strong-willed female gets around the limitations of the “role” assigned to her.
Let me make my point another way. I am a guy, but I consider guys to be ugly, hairy, smelly, uncouth persons. I have no idea why anyone would consider any of us sexually attractive. yet most women do, by all accounts. I can only assume that women do so because they are under some sort of magical compulsion which forces them to find men attractive. They don’t see it or understand it as a compulsion because the compulsion makes being attracted to men part of their very natures. But still, they are compelled by some magical effect of their XX chromosomes.
Still, how can a we speak of a woman consensually having sex with us under such circumstances? Should we not all eschew sex with women until we can figure out some way to bring them to their senses and make a conscious choice?
Or shall we do as I advocate doing, and take every advantage of this compulsion? After all, how do we not know that we are not under some sort of similar compulsion from our Y chromosome?
If Jeannie had had sex with Major Nelson, her family in Baghdad would have had to kill her. It would be an honor killing. A very sad end to a light-hearted show.
Yes, he did, but since he didn’t earn this wealth for himself, he became all corrupt and evil and nasty.
Actually, it might have been amusing to see Barbara Eden doing a guest shot on Dallas as an old lover of J.R., reminding of his relatively uncorrupt youth. And then he shakes off the sentimentality and has her killed.