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<blockquote data-quote="Michael Torrance" data-source="post: 159357" data-attributes="member: 719">That was the original plan of the Shapiros. I think that even then the thinking was a combination of stunt casting (getting some big name as the ex wife, hence the Sophia Lauren proposal) and also not changing the Carrington universe too much. The Pollocks insisted that you can&#039;t create a core character for a quick in and out, and as they said in an interview in The Dynasty Years, they knew that from many years of writing for the form, i.e. soap opera. So once they were brought in, Madeleine became Alexis and a season-long character. I think the Shapiros wrote season 1 as a mini-series, and from what Esther had said season 2--pre-Pollocks--- would be a few different arcs (2 or 3), with the ex wife one of them, not overlapping but one after the other.&nbsp; The Pollocks brought on their bible for a different prime time soap they had created on spec, and the Shapiros or Spelling or ABC or some combo of the three decided to adapt that bible to the Dynasty characters (or, as it turned out, vice versa).&nbsp; And then the show became what we got to know in season 2.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Michael Torrance, post: 159357, member: 719"] That was the original plan of the Shapiros. I think that even then the thinking was a combination of stunt casting (getting some big name as the ex wife, hence the Sophia Lauren proposal) and also not changing the Carrington universe too much. The Pollocks insisted that you can't create a core character for a quick in and out, and as they said in an interview in [I]The Dynasty Years[/I], they knew that from many years of writing for the form, i.e. soap opera. So once they were brought in, Madeleine became Alexis and a season-long character. I think the Shapiros wrote season 1 as a mini-series, and from what Esther had said season 2--pre-Pollocks--- would be a few different arcs (2 or 3), with the ex wife one of them, not overlapping but one after the other. The Pollocks brought on their bible for a different prime time soap they had created on spec, and the Shapiros or Spelling or ABC or some combo of the three decided to adapt that bible to the Dynasty characters (or, as it turned out, vice versa). And then the show became what we got to know in season 2. [/QUOTE]

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