Just to add my two cents about the OG : thank god we didn't have internet and the social medias at the time. Anyway, when I was a kid, I loved Dynasty. My favorite was season 1 Fallon, then Alexis. I liked Al Corley's Steven. Especially season 1. And I was bored to death by Krystle for... years. Yes, all the time I was bored by her kindness, her high morality and sometime passivity. In my book, Krystle was boring. But she was a boring necessity! Without her, the show would have no heart. Without her, no moral compass. How Alexis can be a great vilain, a cruel and vicious woman, without her nemesis : a sweet, sincere, kind human being. All the characters were perfectly defined. All their relations were organic. Alexis hates Krystle : she's the new wife, she lives in the house where she used to live, with her kids, with her old staff, ... Then, she hates her even more when Sammy Jo arrives : that slut marrying her son, Steven. How can it be? And worst, the slut is related to her rival. It works. It's organic. It's real. It's universal. It doesn't matter if you're rich or poor or in between : we can relate to that. We saw it happened in our family, or we witnessed it in other families we know.
Now take NU Dynasty : Cristal was no moral compass and felt like a young gold digger (even if she wasn't) since episode 1. In OG Dynasty, Krystle and Blake's love was flawed (Blake's darkness that Krystle didn't like, Matthew Blaisdel) but we had absolutely no doubt that this love was genuine and sincere. What about Nu Sam and Nu Alexis relation ? Well, I don't know. The writers didn't know much either. First Alexis want to frame Sam for shoplifting, then she accepts him, then she shades his aunt on TV after Cristal death, so he rejects her, then with absolutely NO reasons, they're friends. Oh yes, they were teaming together because they wanted to know if Melissa was faking her pregnancy. But teaming doesn't mean forgiving. That's what those writers really don't get. Take Susan and Edie in Desperate Housewives. They were rivals since day 1. And even if they could share some very rare bonding moments, if they sometimes could team up for a common goal, they never ever stoped being rivals. They despised each others and it never stopped.
in OG Dynasty, Alexis never stopped "hating" Sammy Jo. Hating is too strong, but I mean Alexis didn't spent quality time with her, like Nu Alexis spent time with Sam (remember that they even became friendly. Alexis wanted to spend time with him and brought SPA equipment to the Mansion, because they were both sad). It's something that would never ever happen between OG Alexis and Sammy Jo. With Nu Dynasty, it's like the characters have no guts, or no memory. How many time Jeff and Michael were ennemies, friends, ennemies, friends, and go on ? They can deeply hurt someone in one episode, and enjoy each others 2 episodes later, for whatever contrived reasons needed for their plot of the day. And worst, is that they mostly tell and don't show. Sam is like a brother to Fallon? Don't tell. Show it. It applies for almost all te characters. Lots of telling, and no following.
Now that Alexis is back on Nu Dynasty, I don' get who she is. She started strong, with the iconic trial moments. Then she slowly slipped into clown Alexis again.
Remember this dialogue?
Alexis: Well, maybe there's something I can do.
Adam: Nah, I said "recourse" not "intercourse."
How fu***ng lame is that?? The writers want so much to write "funny" dialogues for the sake of funny, that they don't care if it ends up stupid and out of character: Alexis is reduced to the slut status, from the son (that she barely knows) who put her face in a fireplace not so long ago. How can we come from absolutely disturbing (yet great) and dark moment, to this shitty dialogue??
Yes, the show is still schizophrenic and the new show runner is obviously not David Paulsen.
