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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Michael Torrance" data-source="post: 227670" data-attributes="member: 719">I love season 1 and I appreciate it immensely, but it was clearly NOT written to set up the kind of long, multi-season saga that, say, Dallas or Peyton Place had as their origin stories. Its universe seemed to be more geared for a limited run: around Krystle and Blake and possible outcomes. Would she change Blake? Would he change her? Would she realize she cannot fit in and leave him? The Pollocks and Joan Collins' Alexis did change the game in season 2, but the desire to install Alexis at the helm of Colbyco worked against the show's long term plot prospects. In terms of narrative structure, the show should have worked on expanding the Colbys instead of eliminating them. After Cecil died, Jeff was a near-adopted son for Blake (who had even suggested it at some point) and the other half of Colbyco belonged to the mother of Blake's children. Clearly, there would soon be no more Colbys. If the show had brought the California expansion pack earlier in the game, it would have actually prevented Dynasty from derailing by season 4, with business storylines being mcguffins for Alexis and Blake to be in faux Hong Kong and Faux Acapulco in season 5, and there could have been a real antagonist for Blake, like early Cecil was.</blockquote>