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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Willie Oleson" data-source="post: 422289" data-attributes="member: 8">Odd that you mention Chase who was always hell-bent on doing the right  thing.  It didn't always look very nice (because a soap marriage needs tension) but at the core of it it was a good quality. And that doesn't need to be influenced, become better or worse,  by a bad quality.Also odd that you didn't mention here-comes-the-bad-guy Richard who was given the benefit of the doubt (to some degree anyway) precisely because of his unfortunate upbringing courtesy of Mother Perrault.But I'm not sure if good vs. bad is always the deciding factor here.Even if I would disregard the retcon of Blake's past as the self-made oil tycoon - clearly suggesting that there wasn't any Big Money before that happened and also one of the reasons why Cecil Colby hated Blake's success  - it was simply the very on-screen existence of Tom Carrington that made Blake, and by extension his mansion and company, look a little smaller.There had been something before him - a bigger house, on a bigger hill - and that was definitely not the vibe when the mighty Carringtons were introduced in the first season. Because of sheer luck (David Paulsen got involved) the Tom Carrington character contributed something very useful to the story in the last season, but nobody knew that when Tom Carrington appeared on screen in season 5 (or was it season 6?).It would be the same if we'd find out that Jock Ewing had a filthy rich daddy, it just doesn't work on the canvas created for these soaps.Blake and Alexis' origin is their marriage and divorce, and what Alexis did before she met Blake, well...those were only tittilating titbits, and what happened in Brussels should stay in Brussels.Giving a Alexis a mother, a scenery-chewing dragon, unnecessarily requires everything to be placed in time, place and context. And I'm just not sure that solving that puzzle is always a good thing. If anything, the only character who'd benefit from the connection is the grande dame guignol herself.Having said that, I still champion the possibility of the two Morell sisters (after taken up residence in Blake's mansion) being visited by their old and seemingly frail and innocent father on a foggy Hammer Horror night. But they will never find out that their father was the Mad Hatter serial killer.All things considered I think only Dex Dexter could have had the monster mother, and perhaps she would have an opinion about her son and Alexis being a couple.I mean, would it be some kind of indication if we find out that she's breast-feeded little Dexy until the age of 7? Which could explain his fetish for the opposite type, the underage crack whores? The DYNASTY Giallo writes itself....</blockquote>

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