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<blockquote data-quote="Daniel Avery" data-source="post: 332484" data-attributes="member: 27"><p>There was that whole &quot;we&#039;re subverting expectations!&quot; thing with the development of this reboot, and the Alexis/Krystle-Cristal thing was just one of them.&nbsp;&nbsp; For generations TV shows (especially soaps) had always used the &quot;blond=good, brunette=bad&quot; visuals in the same way Westerns always had villains wear black hats and the heroes wear white hats.&nbsp; So the producers of the reboot likely thought that the ethnicity/gender switches were a sign of how they wanted to play with the source material and put their own stamp on it.&nbsp; If they had managed to keep hold of NS and NK in the roles of Alexis and Cristal, I think they would have been able to develop that rivalry into something more similar to the source material.&nbsp; The loss of both actresses (and subsequent issues with establishing recasts) made them lose their way and basically leave one of the original&#039;s most memorable aspects (the A/K rivalry) untouched after mid-S2 when NS left.&nbsp; After that, the two ladies did not have many opportunities to interact at all and even when they did it wasn&#039;t written as a strong hatred/rivalry.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Daniel Avery, post: 332484, member: 27"] There was that whole "we're subverting expectations!" thing with the development of this reboot, and the Alexis/Krystle-Cristal thing was just one of them. For generations TV shows (especially soaps) had always used the "blond=good, brunette=bad" visuals in the same way Westerns always had villains wear black hats and the heroes wear white hats. So the producers of the reboot likely thought that the ethnicity/gender switches were a sign of how they wanted to play with the source material and put their own stamp on it. If they had managed to keep hold of NS and NK in the roles of Alexis and Cristal, I think they would have been able to develop that rivalry into something more similar to the source material. The loss of both actresses (and subsequent issues with establishing recasts) made them lose their way and basically leave one of the original's most memorable aspects (the A/K rivalry) untouched after mid-S2 when NS left. After that, the two ladies did not have many opportunities to interact at all and even when they did it wasn't written as a strong hatred/rivalry. [/QUOTE]

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