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<blockquote data-quote="Daniel Avery" data-source="post: 222680" data-attributes="member: 27">Perhaps they got along just fine while they worked together, and it was NS&#039;s decision to leave that caused a falling-out (if there even WAS one).&nbsp; Perhaps Gillies was a bit hurt that NS decided so hastily to depart, since she (Gillies) recognized that the show was already struggling with the bad press over the departures of MacKay and especially Kelley.&nbsp; A third major departure in less then three seasons would make the show look like the Titanic in the press.&nbsp; Having their main &quot;name&quot; star leave in the midst of a major story (Mark was scheduled to be murdered and Cristal was going to lose the baby, with Alexis looking like the cause of both tragedies) was going to throw the whole season&#039;s stories into a tailspin.&nbsp; Gillies may have felt that Sheridan had the option to fly back and forth to take care of her mother&#039;s needs, that &quot;the show must go on&quot; (rightly or wrongly), but NS left them all in the lurch.&nbsp; Heck, maybe Gillies saw Sheridan as her best hope of having another actor shouldering the burden.&nbsp; With her gone (and no idea of when or if Alexis would return as NS or someone else), LG may have felt some of the same abandonment issues Fallon felt when Alexis left.&nbsp; She may not have recognized that Dynasty was just another job to Sheridan, while it was/is the biggest job of Gillies&#039;s career to date and wasn&#039;t able to immediately recognize why NS could leave so easily.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Daniel Avery, post: 222680, member: 27"] Perhaps they got along just fine while they worked together, and it was NS's decision to leave that caused a falling-out (if there even WAS one). Perhaps Gillies was a bit hurt that NS decided so hastily to depart, since she (Gillies) recognized that the show was already struggling with the bad press over the departures of MacKay and especially Kelley. A third major departure in less then three seasons would make the show look like the [I]Titanic [/I]in the press. Having their main "name" star leave in the midst of a major story (Mark was scheduled to be murdered and Cristal was going to lose the baby, with Alexis looking like the cause of both tragedies) was going to throw the whole season's stories into a tailspin. Gillies may have felt that Sheridan had the option to fly back and forth to take care of her mother's needs, that "the show must go on" (rightly or wrongly), but NS left them all in the lurch. Heck, maybe Gillies saw Sheridan as her best hope of having another actor shouldering the burden. With her gone (and no idea of when or if Alexis would return as NS or someone else), LG may have felt some of the same abandonment issues Fallon felt when Alexis left. She may not have recognized that [I]Dynasty[/I] was just another job to Sheridan, while it was/is the biggest job of Gillies's career to date and wasn't able to immediately recognize why NS could leave so easily. [/QUOTE]

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