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<blockquote data-quote="ClassyCo" data-source="post: 436221" data-attributes="member: 7">Well, I finished Season 3 earlier today. I will probably start Season 4 here in a little while, or I might wait until tomorrow and give myself a brief break.Some random thoughts:The show is very &quot;of it&#039;s time&quot;... What with all the &quot;House of Devereaux&quot; reality show Dominique and Vanessa have going on, which Culhane has gotten tangled up with as well. Who is Vanessa&#039;s father? Is that or was that ever explained? If it was, I must&#039;ve missed it. Why didn&#039;t they just give her Jackie like she had in the original? I really wanted to like Dominique when she first entered the show, but I just don&#039;t. Honestly, she seems completely irrelevant (much like the OG Dominique... sorry Diahann Carroll, as much as I like you) to much that&#039;s going on inside the show. Blake knows she&#039;s his sister, and apparently he&#039;s known for years, but that came out of nowhere. Anyway, I don&#039;t really like that she&#039;s Jeff and Monica&#039;s mother (which, are they going to make it like Monica never existed just like they&#039;re so desperately trying to do with Steven?).I really hope they mellow the relationship between Fallon and Liam and just let them be together, but I&#039;m not holding my breath. Fallon has to be involved in one drama after another. This is, after all, a soap.They need to make up their minds what they&#039;re going to do with Blake and Cristal. Keep them together or break them up. Personally, I&#039;d be alright if they split them up, but I know they aren&#039;t going to do that. The marriage between Blake and Krystle was so central to the OG show that they&#039;d never erase that from the reboot (John Forysthe was such a stickler about the marriage being the &quot;anchor&quot; of the OG show that the producers basically hired Ali MacGraw for no reason in Season5... Well, she ended up lip smushing Jeff for a little bit, but I digress). CW DYNASTY is entertaining and it pulls you in, and my only explanation for that is the utter randomness of it all. Relationships, plots, subplots, characters, tones, story structures, it all changes so rapidly. I&#039;ve come to expect such storytelling tactics from this low-grade DYNASTY imitation. It&#039;s all about girl power, inclusion, and who can best who anyway. I&#039;ve got two seasons left.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ClassyCo, post: 436221, member: 7"] Well, I finished Season 3 earlier today. I will probably start Season 4 here in a little while, or I might wait until tomorrow and give myself a brief break. Some random thoughts: The show is very "of it's time"... What with all the "House of Devereaux" reality show Dominique and Vanessa have going on, which Culhane has gotten tangled up with as well. Who is Vanessa's father? Is that or was that ever explained? If it was, I must've missed it. Why didn't they just give her Jackie like she had in the original? I really wanted to like Dominique when she first entered the show, but I just don't. Honestly, she seems completely irrelevant (much like the OG Dominique... sorry Diahann Carroll, as much as I like you) to much that's going on inside the show. Blake knows she's his sister, and apparently he's known for years, but that came out of nowhere. Anyway, I don't really like that she's Jeff and Monica's mother (which, are they going to make it like Monica never existed just like they're so desperately trying to do with Steven?). I really hope they mellow the relationship between Fallon and Liam and just let them be together, but I'm not holding my breath. Fallon has to be involved in one drama after another. This is, after all, a soap. They need to make up their minds what they're going to do with Blake and Cristal. Keep them together or break them up. Personally, I'd be alright if they split them up, but I know they aren't going to do that. The marriage between Blake and Krystle was so central to the OG show that they'd never erase that from the reboot (John Forysthe was such a stickler about the marriage being the "anchor" of the OG show that the producers basically hired Ali MacGraw for no reason in Season5... Well, she ended up lip smushing Jeff for a little bit, but I digress). CW DYNASTY is entertaining and it pulls you in, and my only explanation for that is the utter randomness of it all. Relationships, plots, subplots, characters, tones, story structures, it all changes so rapidly. I've come to expect such storytelling tactics from this low-grade DYNASTY imitation. It's all about girl power, inclusion, and who can best who anyway. I've got two seasons left. [/QUOTE]

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