Cristal has been cast Nathalie kelley from The Vampire Diaries

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She's Australian and yet she still has that awful new California way of speaking which just has no place in the DYNASTY world. Here's hoping she has a Meryl Streep-like gift for accents.
 
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I'm sorry I cant... She's like about 15? What are Steven and Fallon going to be like?
This is a shit storm. It's soooo going to be what I thought was! THE OC meets 90210.
 
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she doesn't look 31
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She looks 15!!!!!

The beauty of the original show was that Krystle was a little older. That she had lived a life and made mistakes and had now found love and a seemingly perfect life.

They don't get it. They just don't get it. :(
 
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You know, it just starts to sink in. I have nothing against this person, but...from ALL the actresses in the world, they picked an actress from the Vampire Diairies.

Yes....The Vampire Diaries





I had adjusted myself to the idea of a Latin actress and I had hoped for a type like Raquel Welch.
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Ha! :rolleyes:
 
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Perhaps Cristal could die in the first episode, this Dynasty starts with a murder mystery. Corny, I know, but it's the only way.
Phew! I just saved Dynasty:spinning:. You can thank me here or by private message.
 
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Willie Oleson said:
You know, it just starts to sink in. I have nothing against this person, but...from ALL the actresses in the world, they picked an actress from the Vampire Diairies.

Yes....The Vampire Diaries





I had adjusted myself to the idea of a Latin actress and I had hoped for a type like Raquel Welch.
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Ha! :rolleyes:
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Maybe she's a fantastic actress, who knows? It all just seems wrong though. Yes she's 31, but she looks much younger and maybe isn't that experienced as an actress to be the female lead. Linda Evans was pretty great in the first two seasons before she became a compulsive flower arranger.
I just think it's not going to be ANYTHING at all like the DYNASTY we know.
I was hoping she would have at least been mid 30s and maybe a bit more of a name. Not a superstar of course, but an actress who had been chugging away in other series for years.
 
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A couple of clips from unReal, hopefully she won't be doing the same breathy seductress shtick. Maybe the new Cristal will really be a vile gold-digger, just like Alexis always used to describe her.


 
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Willie Oleson said:
We can still enjoy hating it.
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I was thinking that. It might be fun to hate it. I have also been wondering what way they are going to address the Alexis thing. On the original show she came an basically took over. That's some big shoes to fill, so I guess whoever is cast in season 1 is going to be waiting for this huge change to happen and for some big casting.
 
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The CW is probably the worst possible place a DYNASTY reboot could have ended up. It's like TNT and Dallas. :(
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I was just coming to say this. People have to realize that all networks tend to apply the same formula to all of their shows (it's why a straight-up soap opera was a bad idea for TNT and why the show quickly started gravitating towards crime drama). The CW is no exception. This will be relatively short scenes, lots of popular music, music-video editing, and an intense focus on YOUNG. You can't forget this is trying to appeal to the younger demographic, and everything about it will lead to that. There will be NO melodrama. It won't be highly dramatic or OTT. They'll go for 'hip' and 'cool'. I'll be VERY surprised if it's anything else.

Which makes perfect sense because, from the very beginning, they made it clear that Fallon & Krystle Cristal will be the main focus. That's why they cast someone that still looks like a teenager. It also makes me wonder whether they ever plan for Alexis to come on permanently or have as big a part as she did on the original. It's actually kind of doubtful (although I'm sure they won't resist bringing her on, if only for the publicity). Considering the age of their young leads (Fallon and Cristal), they want to focus more on anyone in that generation. Blake and Alexis (if she's ever a regular, lol) will have occasional scenes, along the other "grown ups," and maybe even miss an episode or two every now and then.

Also, the age difference that would have to be between Cristal and Alexis doesn't please me. They'll look sorta ridiculous. Add on top of that the racial undertones, which the show is building itself on...

Oh, I'm DEFINITELY watching. 1: Because I can't resist. 2: Because it will likely be a huge mess, and I gotta witness that. 3: On the tiny, slight, minuscule chance that it IS good.
 
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