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<blockquote data-quote="Daniel Avery" data-source="post: 192222" data-attributes="member: 27">The Quartermaines on General Hospital have an offbeat &quot;Thanksgiving tradition&quot; that they plan a big dinner that ultimately gets ruined one way or another, leading to them eating takeout pizza.&nbsp; NuDynasty&#039;s Thanksgiving tradition is...gunplay.&nbsp; And y&#039;know what?&nbsp; I&#039;m okay with that.I also thought Anders&#039;s return to the manor was rather random.&nbsp; I mean, we all know he is needed there--I don&#039;t recall seeing a single servant working on the family&#039;s dinner!&nbsp; They spent a lot more effort on setting up his departure (heart scare, random characters pointing out how Blake uses him and doesn&#039;t respect him) than they spent on showing the&nbsp; motivation for his coming back.&nbsp; Worse still, Blake didn&#039;t show much gratitude (dare I say Thankfulness?) for Anders&#039;s return in a true time of need.&nbsp; They did write that Anders just enjoys being needed (thus his time at the hotel), but if he doesn&#039;t set some kind of ground rules for his return to Blake&#039;s employ, then the whole thing will be waste of time.&nbsp; Since they seem to be focused a lot more on making every action of the characters have meaning/purpose, this would be a glaring exception.&nbsp; One thing that might have helped: Anders shows up with his daughter, and Kirby patches things up with Fallon when Anders adopts an attitude of &quot;we come as a package deal&quot;.&nbsp; But obviously MB was not going to appear in this episode, so they didn&#039;t even use the holiday as an opportunity to re-establish her relevance to the Carringtons.Speaking of which, I think Maddison Brown, Adam Huber, and Sam Adegoke are probably signed to contracts that exclude them from a certain number of episodes.&nbsp; Typically, actors in the opening credits are in every episode, but these three have been excluded from several episodes each, and we&#039;re only seven episodes in.&nbsp; I was sort of half-watching the Colbys meal scene--was Jeff even at the table with the ladies?&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; While watching those scenes, I realized that no potential love interest for Sam would ever &#039;stick&#039; when things with Steven&#039;s fate were left so unresolved.&nbsp; No &quot;new&quot; character will ever out-shine a Carrington; they&#039;ll always be living in the shadow of Steven.&nbsp; &quot;Oh, he&#039;s okay, but only until Steven comes back&quot; will likely be the best any love interest can hope to hear from fans.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Daniel Avery, post: 192222, member: 27"] The Quartermaines on [I]General Hospital[/I] have an offbeat "Thanksgiving tradition" that they plan a big dinner that ultimately gets ruined one way or another, leading to them eating takeout pizza. Nu[I]Dynasty[/I]'s Thanksgiving tradition is...gunplay. And y'know what? I'm okay with that. I also thought Anders's return to the manor was rather random. I mean, we all know he is needed there--I don't recall seeing a single servant working on the family's dinner! They spent a lot more effort on setting up his departure (heart scare, random characters pointing out how Blake uses him and doesn't respect him) than they spent on showing the motivation for his coming back. Worse still, Blake didn't show much gratitude (dare I say [I]Thankfulness?)[/I] for Anders's return in a true time of need. They did write that Anders just enjoys being needed (thus his time at the hotel), but if he doesn't set some kind of ground rules for his return to Blake's employ, then the whole thing will be waste of time. Since they seem to be focused a lot more on making every action of the characters have meaning/purpose, this would be a glaring exception. One thing that might have helped: Anders shows up [I]with his daughter[/I], and Kirby patches things up with Fallon when Anders adopts an attitude of "we come as a package deal". But obviously MB was not going to appear in this episode, so they didn't even use the holiday as an opportunity to re-establish her relevance to the Carringtons. Speaking of which, I think Maddison Brown, Adam Huber, and Sam Adegoke are probably signed to contracts that exclude them from a certain number of episodes. Typically, actors in the opening credits are in every episode, but these three have been excluded from several episodes each, and we're only seven episodes in. I was sort of half-watching the Colbys meal scene--was Jeff even at the table with the ladies? While watching those scenes, I realized that no potential love interest for Sam would ever 'stick' when things with Steven's fate were left so unresolved. No "new" character will ever out-shine a Carrington; they'll always be living in the shadow of Steven. "Oh, he's okay, but only until Steven comes back" will likely be the best any love interest can hope to hear from fans. [/QUOTE]

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