whatever happened between season 9 finale and the reunion

[foreverluke]

hello guys i'm from italy so forgive my english
here we go: 2 seasons (10 and 11) between catch 22 (may 89) and the reunion (1991). i tried to explain everything (including alexis owning colby ent in 1991).
it's a game so... please react!


Dynasty 10 (1989-1990)

main cast: Blake (only first 5 ep) Jeff Fallon Sammy jo Adam sable (only first 5) Alexis (only first 5) Dana zorelli monica

Aftermath season 9:

Handler's dead. Blake arrested for murder.

Alexis survives the fall. Dex is crippled and leaves Denver and sable.

Sable looses the baby and leaves shortly Denver.

Fallon and krystina saved by Jeff. Grimes is dead.

First 5 episodes:

Trial to Blake. it's revelead who's behind handler: Alexis ! She wanted the collection to be richer and defeat sable . She testifies against Blake who is condemned.

Unfortunately all original owners of the collection hear of the trial and come from Europe . Alexis looses everything but wins over blake who remain in jail .she leaves Denver for sometime to enter the world of fashion .

ep 6-15:

Jeff has a love story with monica, while Fallon keeps seeing zorelli. Fallon become owner of the Carlton.

Adam finds Dana and marries her again.

Jeff and Fallon starts running Denver carrington in absence of Blake. Adam starts plotting against Jeff allying himself with ray Bonning and mafia. Bonning kills Jeff's assistant . Jeff is accused of murder .

Sammy jo leaves tanner and falls in love with zorelli. Love triangle: sammy jo, zorelli and Fallon (with cat fight). in the meantime zorelli conducts a long investigation in Denver to free Jeff of any charges.


16-22:

Zorelli In the end chooses Sammy jo and leaves Fallon. Jeff is freed of any charge and is released thanks also to zorelli investigation. He and Fallon rekindle love. Jeff leaves monica who attempts suicide but survive and leaves Denver to go back to LA. Jeff and Fallon remarry in Las Vegas.


Cliffhangers:

Sammy jo goes bankrupt and looses everything.

Adam's limousine (with him Dana and Fallon inside) is bombed by mafia. Dana is killed. Fallon is seriously wounded.

Jason and Francesca arrive in Denver during Jeff trial and open local offices for Colby enterprises.


Season 11 (1990-1991)

Adam Jeff Fallon Monica Jason (only first 5 ep) sable Francesca zorelli Sammy jo (only 2 ep) bliss

Aftermath season 10 :

Sammy jo becomes a model again and goes to NY to work for fashion fury. She leaves zorelli.

Dana dies and Adam become full with rage and hate.

Jason and Francesca goes to leave in the old Colby villa.

Fallon survives but looses memory and she believes again to be Randall Adams.

1-5:

Adam now owns Denver carrington after excluding Jeff from the board. She begins a fight against Colby enterprises.

Jason dies and in his will leaves everything to Jeff, Francesca and bliss. Sable arrive to Denver with bliss and they start a huge fight for control of Colby enterprises. Adam sides with sable to defeat Jeff and Francesca .

Randall-Fallon falls in love again with zorelli but in the end recover her memory and leave the policeman for good. She gets back with Jeff.


6-18:

Bliss is seduced and falls in love with Adam. She marries him. But soon she gets unhappy and starts using drugs. She almost dies for overdose. Zorelli saves her and the two fall in love. They leave Denver.

Sable and Francesca fall in love with the same man, politician Leonard Thorpe. Catfights. Leo in the end chooses Francesca. Sable is enraged.

Fallon becomes pregnant from jeff.

Adam and Jeff, one versus the other fight the ultimate war for control of Denver oil business. The two man become obsessed. The climax of the battle is a fight on board the carrington jet between the two. Fallon also is on the jet. The jet crashes and Fallon looses the baby. Jeff decides to retire. But it's too late: Fallon leaves him and goes to live in Malibu with her children and Kristina.

Sable wins over Jeff and Francesca with a very high price : Francesca is killed in a car crash. Full of regrets sable leave Denver leaving Colby enterprises to Adam who now owns both Denver carrington and Colby enterprises.

Cliffhangers:

Jeff follows Fallon in Malibu but finds his cousin miles with her.

Adam sits triumphant in Colby enterprises board room but he's been doubled: Alexis has actually purchased majority stocks and purchased Colby enterprises, merging it with Colby co. She's back!

Adam plans a revenge and makes deal with the evil consortium.

krystle is awake from coma in Switzerland.


The reunion (1991)

 

[ArchieLucasCarringtonEwing1989]

It's hard to say what happened between May 1989 to late summer 1991, mainly because The Reunion doesn't seem to follow on from season 9 directly, and it wasn't because of the years long gap between the two, The Sopranos often had a two year gap between seasons, in England the gap between seasons is often even longer than two years.

Narratively speaking it feels that the events of season 9 by the reunion didn't happen, thanks to how diabolically awful the reunion actually was, especially since TPTB placed the events of season 9 in 1988!
Placing it in the same year as season 8.

Only Joan Collins bothered in a 30'second long synopsis to fill the 2 1/2 year gap, by implying Alexis regained much of her fortune from the First Gulf War, after having extensive treatment from her fall, I'll find the video on YouTube and post it on here.

The Reunion I like to think takes place in Krystle's coma dream before she really wakes up!

 

[Zara]

The Reunion was truly awful.
Funny detail: All four of Blake and Alexis' children underwent facial surgery during the show. Adam in The Reunion sucked.

It should be considered a crime to leave Dynasty the way they did in the last episode of season 9. Dynasty had so much potential, and at times, there were drama that was wonderful and intriguing. But with writers who actually cared about the characters and their lives Dynasty could have been marvelous. The show had a core ensemble that was pretty unique.

 

[Soapwriter12]

the reunion is why we're getting the reboot, and not a sequel series.

 

[Zable]

IMO, the reunion shouldn't be the only reason we're getting a reboot. Season 9 wasn't even a sequel.

 

[Zara]

I would go so far and state that without the three corner stones Blake, Krystle and Alexis the show was nothing. Even one of the three missing wouldn't work. When LE left the show much of the old glamour and style died. Blake had no real home life without a wife, and him being at the mansion was merely passing time.

Okey, Alexis wasn't in season 1 but at that time there wasn't really a need for the character. In fact she might have ruined it by coming back "too soon". As soon as the audience knew her (and her conflicts) she had to stay on.

LE should never have left. Instead Spelling should’ve talked her into staying the whole season 9, and that would be the end of it. A proper end. A end more worthy of Dynasty.
For example; Before Blake runs for Governor, he and K talk about handing over the business to the children and just "run away" to their own private paradise. That would have been a fantastic ending. Blake and Krystle (and Krystina) on their own, and the unique love could continue forever, somewhere in the world..

This makes me hate the real ending even more! There were so many other, and BETTER, endings they could have chosen.

 

[Ked]

I would go so far and state that without the three corner stones Blake, Krystle and Alexis the show was nothing. Even one of the three missing wouldn't work. When LE left the show much of the old glamour and style died. Blake had no real home life without a wife, and him being at the mansion was merely passing time.

Okey, Alexis wasn't in season 1 but at that time there wasn't really a need for the character. In fact she might have ruined it by coming back "too soon". As soon as the audience knew her (and her conflicts) she had to stay on.

LE should never have left. Instead Spelling should’ve talked her into staying the whole season 9, and that would be the end of it. A proper end. A end more worthy of Dynasty.
For example; Before Blake runs for Governor, he and K talk about handing over the business to the children and just "run away" to their own private paradise. That would have been a fantastic ending. Blake and Krystle (and Krystina) on their own, and the unique love could continue forever, somewhere in the world..

This makes me hate the real ending even more! There were so many other, and BETTER, endings they could have chosen.

That probably would have been for the best, although I can't help but wonder if Dynasty could have continued without the Big Three. Probably not, but I personally always think of season 9 as The Sable Era, because it all really felt like it was all about her. Oh, and Fallon. Sable and Fallon were the real stars that season. And with how "refreshed" season 9 felt, could the show have continued riding on the backs of Sable and Fallon, and a possibly returned Dominique? I can't help but think about the possibilities...

 

[ArchieLucasCarringtonEwing1989]

I would go so far and state that without the three corner stones Blake, Krystle and Alexis the show was nothing. Even one of the three missing wouldn't work. When LE left the show much of the old glamour and style died. Blake had no real home life without a wife, and him being at the mansion was merely passing time.

Okey, Alexis wasn't in season 1 but at that time there wasn't really a need for the character. In fact she might have ruined it by coming back "too soon". As soon as the audience knew her (and her conflicts) she had to stay on.

LE should never have left. Instead Spelling should’ve talked her into staying the whole season 9, and that would be the end of it. A proper end. A end more worthy of Dynasty.
For example; Before Blake runs for Governor, he and K talk about handing over the business to the children and just "run away" to their own private paradise. That would have been a fantastic ending. Blake and Krystle (and Krystina) on their own, and the unique love could continue forever, somewhere in the world..

This makes me hate the real ending even more! There were so many other, and BETTER, endings they could have chosen.

That probably would have been for the best, although I can't help but wonder if Dynasty could have continued without the Big Three. Probably not, but I personally always think of season 9 as The Sable Era, because it all really felt like it was all about her. Oh, and Fallon. Sable and Fallon were the real stars that season. And with how "refreshed" season 9 felt, could the show have continued riding on the backs of Sable and Fallon, and a possibly returned Dominique? I can't help but think about the possibilities...

See I think Dynasty was ready for a big shake up at this point, Sable was being groomed to replace Krystle and @Ked is right, season 9 is the Sable era, Alexis is only in half the episodes, and when she's not there it somehow works, Fallon was also a big player this season, for the first time since season 4 she has a meaty, strong storyline, Knots Landing carried on for five more seasons after Abby Ewing left and I think Dynasty could've done two more seasons with new leads, JF we know was unhappy about not working with Linda Evans, but I think because he was a team player he'd carry on, providing that Blake didn't get together with Sable, hence why they had her paired off with Dex.

A Blake, Sable & Mrs Elias era could've worked, as this would've been the early 90s, plus the younger cast especially Adam, Fallon and Sammy Jo were just as much involved as the others, so I don't think
A Dynasty without Krystle and Alexis would be a complete end of the world.

It's funny as at the time over in The UK, in Eastenders in 1988 & 1989 two of the shows biggest, larger than life characters; Den and Angie Watts left the show, the press were saying that it was the end of the show and that it wouldn't survive without them, yet by 1990 there was a new set of characters that took the show into a new era: The Mitchell Brothers, another example was when Shannon Doherty left BH 90210 people said the same thing as Brenda Walsh was the original female lead, but that show carried on into the 90s and just making it to the 2000s.

With Paulson at the helm I think Dynasty could've survived as far as 1991.

 

[Zara]

Sable could carry a show, but Fallon was never that kind of character for me, although she was strong.

I'm not sure if Dynasty could've lived into the 90's. JF and LE did get older and JF was already way older than LE. I just don't see Dynasty as Dynasty without the patriarch Blake. He had such an impact and strong presence on the show.

Something like this:
Alexis could've moved into the mansion, with Fallon and Jeff as her family and, at the same time, her conscience. Sable could weasel her way into Colbyco and fight with Alexis. Sammy Jo had to be written out. But Adam, Dana and Dex would've been good to have on. Occasionally the Colbys from California could come to Denver to stir things up and give Alexis more headache.

If Krystle wasn't there the focus could no longer be on Blake, therefor he had to go. No too big reminders of the old saga. But still with a touch of Dynasty in mostly Alexis and Fallon.

 

[ArchieLucasCarringtonEwing1989]

Fallon may not have been seen as a strong lead by 1988-89 because Paulsen was undoing half a dozen years worth of the systematic and gradual bastardisation and decline of the character of Fallon Carrington, Emma Samms proved that she was a worthy successor to PSM, but within a season she turned it around and made Fallon watchable again.

Fallon during this era and during the season 1-2 era proved that she had the potential to becoming a lead in her own series, the original idea for the spinoff had in aired in 1983 was for Fallon to be the main star, hard to think that this was ever considered at one time by the 1985-88 era, thanks to TPTB.

The Carrington Children that had the most potential of branching off completely were Fallon and Adam
Gordon Thomson is a capable actor and one of just a handful of actors in Dynasty i enjoyed watching in the middle years.