The last half of S6 was certainly an improvement over what had preceded it, and I've often thought S6 could have been the Mother of All Soap Seasons potentially, but the reality fell far short.
Even the press, while acknowledging the improvements in the Spring of 1986, observed that the strangulation cliffhanger on the mansion landing, though appropriate, still had a "finality" to the way it felt, a kind of death rattle for the show (when a corpse wakes up and shakes right before dying) and that the stories still had "no resolution, no revelation" to them.
The Pollocks and DeBlasio put their pointy little head together because they knew their jobs were in danger, but they otherwise never learned from their mistakes. They simply had no business being DYNASTY's show-runners.
S7 was less outrageous, yes, but drab and dire and wrong-headed completely.
I actually think the Fallmonts' family name was a bit of unusual foreshadowing for the planned avalanche cliffhanger that was to close S7 (and that Spelling apparently nixed due to budget issues).
It's funny how they started those compelling "come-back-to-DYNASTY-we've-fixed-it!" promos midway thru S6, and remounted the PR campaign every six months until S9 instead of actually fixing the show itself (and once Paulsen was there for S9 and actually
did fix it, there was almost no promotion at all). We often fantasized if the people making those promos could actually take over the show itself.
One wonders if S6 could have lived up to its possibilities had they brought in the Colbys (and Huson & Bast) for several weeks and if they'd successfully pulled Paulsen into the show in 1985 instead of 1988 as they had tried to do.
