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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Snarky Oracle!" data-source="post: 444389" data-attributes="member: 57984">All dressed up and no place they'd go. Shame.If those Redditers are expecting DYNASTY to get better after Season 3, they'll continue to be mightily disappointed. Of course, the older shows are not as fast-paced as more recent series, so that could be the problem they're seeing. But the show the media covered with electric interest back in the '80s -- which is the way it's still talked about today -- had little to do with the program that aired every Wednesday night in the States... Everybody seemed to know what DYNASTY could and should be, except for the producers (who only knew how to cast it, dress it, and promote it, but little else).The reality of most of DYNASTY was indeed a slog. Or, as our [USER=68]@Alexis[/USER] once phrased, a show perpetually "suffocated." Almost frame-by-frame.Myself, I never got over it. Like a death, really, after all the potential suggested by Seasons 1 & 2, and later recaptured in Season 9. But everything in between was an unfocused mess. (At least Season 5, its peak year ratings-wise, was splashy if stupid beyond redemption).With Season 3, the S.A.D. emerged, Ed Ledding had been fired (I'm convinced set up), craven Eileen Pollock arose as the de facto show-runner, and DYNASTY's karma then changed; yes, the ratings weren't damaged for a couple of more years -- the Q-ratings over the casting, Nolan Miller's wardrobe, the Spelling/ABC publicity machine kept the series as relevant as possible for as long as possible. But by Season 6, the audience eventually realized that the series didn't really tell a story, and that same audience started to tune out, a precipitous Neilsen collapse soon followed, occurring much faster than an aging hit of DYNASTY's magnitude ever should've.Season 9, helmed by DALLAS' David Paulsen, was great. But ABC had given up on DYNASTY, moved it to a dead-end time slot, and the audience was already gone anyway.As Forsythe once said, the audience realizes when there is something wrong with the scripts and the story flow, and they eventually just lose interest in the project. (An add the static acting directive which commenced with Season 3, and very little could work after that).Much of DYNASTY was excruciating to sit through at the time. Today, on DVD marathons, daily reruns, and streaming, it's not quite as tough to get through (although Season 7 is mentally ill, and far sicker than Sarah Curtis could have ever deluded herself as being). But phrases like "guilty pleasure" and "camp" were used even in the '80s to rationalize mostly abysmal storytelling, stories cobbled together by writers (and guided by Eileen) who simply weren't up to the task (yet are still credited today with making DYNASTY the dazzling hit it should have been but, in reality, only briefly was).Yes. Slog. It died nastily. So the series title made sense.Oh, what could have been and almost was. The Emperor's New Clothes in reverse.[ATTACH=full]59628[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

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