Wasted relationship opportunities...

[ArchieLucasCarringtonEwing1989]

Ben & Caress, should've had way more history between them, both the much younger siblings of the more favoured children (Blake and Alexis) they could've bonded over this during the late 50s/early 60s.

I always saw Alexis and Caress losing their parents at a relatively young age, around the year 1953, when Alexis was 17 and Caress was 9/10, Alexis (though reluctantly) raises Caress, while Alexis is busy marrying Blake and jet setting around the world we could have two lonely children, Ben and Caress, feeling resentful over their older married siblings, as they grow up they begin to have feelings for one another and eventually they become romantically involved, which later results in a child (Leslie) in 1964, the very year Alexis is kicked out of the mansion and Mother Carrington dies.

 

[Zara]

Fallon and Nick! Such a great couple, and Fallon couldn't manipulate him like other men. Plus Nick's and Blake's feud (that needn't to be about his brother), and Nick's crush on Krystle.

I wanted Nick in season three so much. He was perfect for Dynasty and the world of Carrington.

 

[Zara]

The Carringtons thrived on the word "friend" between the backstabbing and scheming.

It would never have worked out with Krystle and a male friend and Blake with a female. Even without no romance or sex there would be jealousy sooner or later. That's why Dex and Krystle only interacted concerning somebody else (Daniel, Blake in season 7). Alexis even asks Dex if Krystle ever tried to hit on him. Think of the commotion both Blake and Alexis would have caused if they meet on a regular basis. Especially Alexis...

 

[tommie]

In all honesty - they pretty much forgot about establishing relationships after a while and the show ended up being plot-driven.

I know they claimed they were having difficulties writing for a "good" character like Krystle, but why not give her simple friend scenes? Why not have her be the advicer a lot of the time? Like, how did Krystle feel about Adam? Or Amanda? Or was Krystle all along just a flower-arranging robot?

Why not tap into that ethereal and calming quality that Krystle had at the beginning, especially with the insanity around her?

 

[ArchieLucasCarringtonEwing1989]

In all honesty - they pretty much forgot about establishing relationships after a while and the show ended up being plot-driven.

I know they claimed they were having difficulties writing for a "good" character like Krystle, but why not give her simple friend scenes? Why not have her be the advicer a lot of the time? Like, how did Krystle feel about Adam? Or Amanda? Or was Krystle all along just a flower-arranging robot?

Why not tap into that ethereal and calming quality that Krystle had at the beginning, especially with the insanity around her?

Krystle weirdly enough did bond with Amanda, even though she knew Adam first,
I find it strange that Krystle and Adam almost never interacted with one another apart from a random season 3 scene with her admonishing Adam for something that wasn't his fault.

 

[Michael Torrance]

All of the good possibilities mentioned in this thread really point to the same problem, which has to do with the way Dynasty's weaker years were: the writers only wrote for the 12-minute commercial break cliffhanger and the end-of-the-episode cliffhanger, creating peril after peril and complication after complication. But richly written shows always have a second layer of scenes, that of the everyday relationships between characters. Dynasty had that in S1, S2, and S9, but it was hit and miss in the other seasons. For instance, there were a couple of random scenes that showed how Adam was acting like a brother toward Amanda, thus we caught on that potential. There were scenes like that in all seasons, but so rare that one can easily list them all on a short piece of paper. Dallas, mentioned, and especially Knots Landing kept providing a steady supply of these scenes. Surprisingly, considering the common pedigree, so did The Colbys. Ironically daytime soaps, where Pollocs learned their "craft," is full of such scenes. I think in their quest to overcompensate and NOT appear as former daytime writers, they went overboard the other way.

 

[Michael Torrance]

Most of us know that DYNASTY had more potential than most shows ever did, but fell a bit short on most of that.



Billy Dee Williams and Diahann Carroll had the best volatile chemistry between two characters in ages, but the show reportedly refused to pay him enough to keep him around (and yet they could pay poor, ailing Rock Hudson). I wanted to see a lot more from Brady and Dominique as a couple. (And perhaps Brady couple replace Daniel Reece's character completely, with Billy Dee chasing Linda all around Denver much to the displeasure of Dominique).

I think creating a core character like the main protagonist's half-sister, and bringing in said character's father just for that story, and then giving her nothing to do until she is quietly written off is the purest proof that a show needs new writing talent at the helm.

 

[Monzo]

After recently seeing Pamela Bellwood and James Sutorius play a married couple (she was a bigamist) in a Murder, She Wrote rerun, I could easily picture them interacting on Dynasty as well. In season 6, Claudia could have tried to persuade Gordon Wells to write an article about Blake’s attempt to take her oil well; an affair might even have developed from that. As for Claudia: why wasn't she Walter's daughter, anyway? The dynamic surrounding Matthew—who viewed his father-in-law as a father figure yet cheated on his daughter—could have provided plenty of conflict in the first season.

For some reason, I imagine Stephanie Beacham and George Hamilton would have had great chemistry; Joel could have appeared in season 2 of The Colbys as an art dealer—using a pseudonym and without Rita—and shared charming scenes with Sable. Perhaps he could have even helped her kidnap her grandson.

Since Andrew Laird didn't have an exit storyline, I would have given him one: Alexis—upon running into a tipsy Andrew—realizes he has always had a thing for her. She immediately capitalizes on this by seducing him—or dangling the prospect of sex—to get him to forge Blake's will. Ultimately, the truth would have come out, and Blake would have banished Andrew from his life.

 

[Snarky Oracle!]

Fallon and Nick! Such a great couple, and Fallon couldn't manipulate him like other men. Plus Nick's and Blake's feud (that needn't to be about his brother), and Nick's crush on Krystle.

I wanted Nick in season three so much. He was perfect for Dynasty and the world of Carrington.

Nick1 or Nick 2? I'd've called Nick2 "Brick" (like in COAHTR).