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<blockquote data-quote="Carrie Fairchild" data-source="post: 432980" data-attributes="member: 673">I really like The Colbys but that first season was a bit of a mess, even if I do probably prefer it over the second season. The beginning was too cluttered to start with. The supposedly dying patriarch, the return of an absentee mother after twenty years and the resurrection of a supposedly dead pivotal Dynasty character (with a new head) was probably a bit too much to throw in all at once.The central love triangles didn’t work either. I don’t think anyone was really rooting for Frankie and Jason to end up together, and because Jason had been such a dick to Sable, I think the general consensus was that Sable would be better off without him. Then there was the Fallon / Jeff / sociopath, control freak, rapist Miles “love” triangle that I would probably be fast forwarding through whenever I rewatch.However, the Sable and Constance scenes are electric. If we’d gotten one scene per week of the two of them tearing strips off each other, it could’ve been enough to keep the show afloat. Unfortunately, Stanwyck’s diminishing screen time (reportedly due to issues with her remembering her lines) and subsequent departure put an end to that.Season two is when the show steadied quality wise but unfortunately I felt that Sable ended up being sidelined. Ironically, the most interesting part of that season IMO was Connie’s mysterious “death” in Asia and the subsequent Hoyt Parker stuff.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Carrie Fairchild, post: 432980, member: 673"] I really like [I]The Colbys[/I] but that first season was a bit of a mess, even if I do probably prefer it over the second season. The beginning was too cluttered to start with. The supposedly dying patriarch, the return of an absentee mother after twenty years and the resurrection of a supposedly dead pivotal [I]Dynasty[/I] character (with a new head) was probably a bit too much to throw in all at once. The central love triangles didn’t work either. I don’t think anyone was really rooting for Frankie and Jason to end up together, and because Jason had been such a dick to Sable, I think the general consensus was that Sable would be better off without him. Then there was the Fallon / Jeff / sociopath, control freak, rapist Miles “love” triangle that I would probably be fast forwarding through whenever I rewatch. However, the Sable and Constance scenes are electric. If we’d gotten one scene per week of the two of them tearing strips off each other, it could’ve been enough to keep the show afloat. Unfortunately, Stanwyck’s diminishing screen time (reportedly due to issues with her remembering her lines) and subsequent departure put an end to that. Season two is when the show steadied quality wise but unfortunately I felt that Sable ended up being sidelined. Ironically, the most interesting part of that season IMO was Connie’s mysterious “death” in Asia and the subsequent Hoyt Parker stuff. [/QUOTE]

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