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<blockquote data-quote="Snarky Oracle!" data-source="post: 439259" data-attributes="member: 57984">Moving the focus &quot;to the younger characters&quot; is an old trope, and it rarely works. (CBS demanded DALLAS do the same for S13, and, as per usual, it failed miserably).The misperception that DYNASTY had overdone the Krystle/Alexis/Blake triangle (something sometimes reiterated even by fans even today) came from the constant sense that this was the core of the show -- only the writers never really treated it that way after Season 2.. You were always waiting for something to happen there which rarely ever did).In fact, they actually underplayed this angle, largely because they lost interest in Krystle, turning her into a passive, reactive character. (As a result, many viewers now describe Krystle as the character they hated the most -- and that&#039;s just something that should never have happened).But the fans and the press understood what DYNASTY could/should be in a way the producers didn&#039;t.About Season 8, Esther said, &quot;That was then, this is now,&quot; contrasting DYNASTY with a new project they were involved in (the Suzanne Pleshette hospital slutty nurse show?). Shapiro later asserted that if she could do DYNASTY over again, she&#039;d focus more on the younger characters in the later seasons -- apparently unaware that they did). Diahann Carroll later observed that this shift in focus helped kill DYNASTY.As I say, the negligence by the usual suspects helped Season 8.<img src="https://i.gifer.com/NT7h.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 761px" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Snarky Oracle!, post: 439259, member: 57984"] Moving the focus "to the younger characters" is an old trope, and it rarely works. (CBS demanded DALLAS do the same for S13, and, as per usual, it failed miserably). The misperception that DYNASTY had overdone the Krystle/Alexis/Blake triangle (something sometimes reiterated even by fans even today) came from the constant sense that this was the core of the show -- only the writers never really treated it that way after Season 2.. You were always waiting for something to happen there which rarely ever did). In fact, they actually [I]underplayed[/I] this angle, largely because they lost interest in Krystle, turning her into a passive, reactive character. (As a result, many viewers now describe Krystle as the character they hated the [B][I]most[/I][/B] -- and that's just something that should never have happened). But the fans and the press understood what DYNASTY could/should be in a way the producers didn't. About Season 8, Esther said, "That was then, this is now," contrasting DYNASTY with a new project they were involved in (the Suzanne Pleshette hospital slutty nurse show?). Shapiro later asserted that if she could do DYNASTY over again, she'd focus more on the younger characters in the later seasons -- apparently unaware that they did). Diahann Carroll later observed that this shift in focus helped kill DYNASTY. As I say, the negligence by the usual suspects helped Season 8. [IMG width="761px"]https://i.gifer.com/NT7h.gif[/IMG] [/QUOTE]

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