Well he's supposed to be an unlikeable jerk. That way when the fecal matter hit the roatry oscillator for him near the end of the run, nobody had his back and he finally got to see himself as the ass he was.
My fiance' watches 7th Heaven. I can't because of the two blond twins, they're either gifted actors playing mongoloid retarded children, or just really really bad actors. Either way it irks me to the point I can no longer tolerate the WB. Its infectious waste has leaked to the other shows.