Well, Forsythe and Cazenove died within days of each -- does that help?
How Ben acquired an Australian accent is a curious point, since he'd only lived there as an adult. I guess that can happen, but that much??
Kathleen Beller and Diahann Carroll were told that they would play mother and daughter.
So that may be where the story comes from? Well, I guess it could make sense, and gives the timing of Dominique's arrival a certain logic -- in pursuit of her daughter, especially after Joseph dies. Or Cecil dies. Or whomever the hell sired her.
I
still want Season 10 to offer Blake's accusation to Alexis that
she was the mother -- which she denies, of course, and we never get a concrete answer as to who Kirby's parents really were, mother
or father.
No wonder the poor girl became a trigger-happy pathological liar. As would we all.
Perhaps they could have an ABFAB type flashback to a 1961 orgy where Kirby was conceived yet no one has ever been sure by whom --
or even why!
As I've proffered previously, the Kirby-Joseph story, though it seemed like something of a side plot, had to be revealed as being at the
very nexus somehow of the series' backstory --- along with whatever went on in Moldavia circa 1954 where the Royal family and the Carringtons and the Colbys partied (where Cecil lost Alexis to Blake due to her Mother Minx's manipulations, Minx cleverly convinced that the lesser-rich Blake would make a more solid husband) and Constance (whom I call "Ruby," Miss Stanwyck's real name) begins the permanent enmity with Alexis and Minx, to say nothing of how Minx's and Tom's cavorting with nazis led to the whole The Collection acquisition and disposal, and Jason Colby not entirely innocent in the sordid morass; and then there's jealous Caress clueing in Blake to catch Roger and Alexis in bed in 1964, breaking the family apart once and for all.
Why should the creepy baby from multiple someones' loins be denied her birthright? Eventually. Regardless of whether Dominique, Alexis, Joseph, Cecil or Roger was/were the biological parent(s)...?
The one decent scene in season 7 that was done well when Ben receives a phone call from a woman who implies he tried to murder her but she’s still alive. Of course that scene went nowhere.
I'd forgotten all about that! But if they did, then why can't I?
DYNASTY. I still see it as series television's biggest travestic tragedy. So much less than the sum of its parts.
Damn them all to hell (except the actors) for all eternity, forced to watch their own reruns endlessly (except for Seasons 1, 2 and 9, because they were actually good) as The Devil snickers in delight, poking them in the buttocks unrelentingly, and not in a way they'd like, with his scalding pitchfork.
