Queens -- and Joan's jealousy of Linda
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I know it'll never happen, but if they ever did do an actual sequel series to the original DYNASTY, Joan could still play Alexis as a Dowager Countess type: she just sits there and roasts everyone.
After nuDALLAS, there was talk of a nuDYNASTY -- Evans and Beacham both talked about it, circa 2013, andsaid they'd do it.
But the executives, in their endless and unerring wisdom, prevailed and decided a comic remake with a different cast would hit that reboot sweet spot, and so CW's2017 show made the airwaves, the lowest-rated primetime show for its five-year run.
And all was well in the magic kingdom. Forever.
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As for Joan's Cannes Film dress, the bare shoulders is....brave....but apart from that it's an exquisite design.
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I don't really see what's so brave about the bare shoulders; they look fine.
Obviously she knows how much she can get away with.
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Yes. I know. I was there. I *wanted* to like it. And I quit once "Fallexis" appeared onscreen.
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I don't know.
But if Blake and Krystle were married to Blake's death as same as the actor's death, they would have been married for 30 years! Alexis and hers: "Blake was married to me for 7 (9) years"- routine, falls a bit short.
Krystle always won in the big things, even on set as Linda it seems. But Alexis did get much of the zingers right between their encounters.
Alexis was the high-strung teen girl never able to climb out of the roll of drama and mixing love and hate and seeing no value in a normal relationship with a man.
Krystle was Mother Earth, allergic to the immature Blake (first seasons) and his games, which. I believe, was there as a product of how he had it with Alexis, where you constantly fight the love you say you want and seek.
But if Blake and Krystle were married to Blake's death as same as the actor's death, they would have been married for 30 years! Alexis and hers: "Blake was married to me for 7 (9) years"- routine, falls a bit short.
Krystle always won in the big things, even on set as Linda it seems. But Alexis did get much of the zingers right between their encounters.
Alexis was the high-strung teen girl never able to climb out of the roll of drama and mixing love and hate and seeing no value in a normal relationship with a man.
Krystle was Mother Earth, allergic to the immature Blake (first seasons) and his games, which. I believe, was there as a product of how he had it with Alexis, where you constantly fight the love you say you want and seek.
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That's a really common problem: as soon as somebody is attracted, their control issues suddenly kick in. It's the knock-them-down-on-the-playground syndrome.
Or the skeet range.
I would argue that it's not really love but want and a desire to possess.
Entire relationships are defined by that, if not most.
Gore Vidal once said: People don't want love -- or even sex; they want control over others.
Blake and Alexis were obviously both jerks. And she maintained her relationship with him forever by harrassing him, barging into his house at all hours uninvited. and dragging him into court over this-and-that for the rest of their lives. (i.e., "... because that's the passion between us!"
Healthy? No. But at least Blake learned, albeit gradually, to find a higher-quality partner (Krystle) and then figure out a way to stop running her off.
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I once had an acting teacher talk to us about that subject: she seemed to firmly believe, "it's all about having sex!" Nobody in the class seemed to agree with her.
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That *was* an interesting dynamic for the main trio, with Blake unlearning his old ways just so he could keep Krystle; and it makes me wonder how things would have gone had the show not ended. Would Blake have found a way to completely cut ties with Alexis so he could finally have peace with Krystle?
This also makes me appreciate Season 9 even more, because at that point, Blake finally seemed to have it figured out with Krystle - only to lose her to an illness, something that couldn't be fought; and Alexis had a brand new reason to fight with Blake all over again!
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I once had an acting teacher talk to us about that subject: she seemed to firmly believe, "it's all about having sex!" Nobody in the class seemed to agree with her.
Some "clever" person once asserted that "everything is bout sex -- except sex."
I think she/he thought it made her/him sound smart. And it did, because I still don't know what it meant.