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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Michael Torrance" data-source="post: 72325" data-attributes="member: 719"><p>Both shows were about two families, and Dynasty three initially: The Carringtons, the Colbys, and the Blaisdells. Dynasty was even killing original characters like Claudia even when the actress did not want to leave. S9 showed that the show was not out of story, if anything with Sable on it was bursting with potential, and if they had made smarter decisions earlier on they could have kept on viewers.  In S6 they had all their main actors sans PSM, but they had them in the Moldavia and Rita mess. I refuse to believe that the show lost many viewers because Linda Evans left in S9, for instance--what had these viewers been watching Krystle do in the previous seasons? More or less nothing. As for Grey's, it looks now like this is a "people come and go" show because the show-runner handled the exits skillfully, but in early seasons it was obviously an arc about these interns, Meredith and her friends, making it to the end of their residence ("Nobody knows where they might end up" as its title song stated as much). Of course she has more plausible venues to go story-wise because it is a hospital, but look at where Grey's is ratings-wise and creatively at the end of season 13 and where ER was at the same point and obviously who is in charge and what they decide makes a difference.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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