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<blockquote data-quote="Snarky Oracle!" data-source="post: 439273" data-attributes="member: 57984">Probably. The audience loved early-Krystle (something the writing and S.A.D. destroyed pretty quickly) but even the producers admitted in 1985 -- just as Season 6 was starting up -- that the character who frustrated them the most was Krystle because they didn&#039;t know what to do with her.And that should never have happened. I can&#039;t imagine letting that happened to her.But it&#039;s because Krystle was nice. A lead character who was nice. And many writers have no idea how to write for a character who&#039;s nice -- other than have them get raped and, on occasion, replaced by evil twins.Linda eventually went to the writers (I&#039;m guessing, Eillen Pollock) with ideas to allow Krystle to become more vital and pro-active, but that was met with &quot;but that just isn&#039;t Krystle...&quot; responses. So they just continued to throw slop at her in the scripts, keeping Krystle in the same box Blake wanted her. Thus, Krystle became so artificial, the viewers really turned on her (made worse by S.A.D., perhaps the worst creative choice of many the series ever adopted). Because there&#039;s nothing the public hates more than a &quot;nice&quot; character who is merely a superficial poseur. (Okay, okay, some hate the real nice ones even more, but that&#039;s another issue).Eileen &quot;Mike&quot; Pollock was rather open about her contempt for both Krystle and Linda. And it came out in the dialogue. When Alexis calls Krystle &quot;boring&quot; and says Krystle is only beautiful &quot;when she smiles,&quot; or when Senator McVane inexplicably calls Krystle &quot;arrogant&quot; twice in Season 8, one suspects Pollock&#039;s true view of the actress and the character is leaking all over the pages of the script... Yes, these characters might insult Krystle in that fashion, but it smells more like contempt coming from off camera.And even with new writers for Season 8, who stole Krystle&#039;s thunder as she started to go after Alexis&#039; complicity in Cecil&#039;s death?? I, myself, suspect the seasoned hand of sabotage from more supervisory producers. (Mike?).For all of Alexis&#039; bravura and outrageousness, Krystle was at the heart of DYNASTY. And if you&#039;ve lost interest in Krystle -- let alone completely -- then you&#039;ve lost interest in DYNASTY as producers. When she becomes an inconvenience to write for, you&#039;ve completely lost your way.And they had.All one has to do is, say, rewatch the 3-hour pilot, quietly majestic, or any of the crackling face-offs between Krystle and Alexis during Season 2, and then contrast that with what would happen later with Krystle, the scenes and pointless goody-goody words they&#039;d toss her.It&#039;s shocking, really. And why it was such a relief when Paulsen, in the first episode of Season 9, finally even acknowledge the shift in Krystle (i.e.,.e.g.?, &quot;for years, she hasn&#039;t been herself...&quot;)&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; [MEDIA=youtube]kV8cYHRXMAw[/MEDIA][MEDIA=youtube]jvgcheLlPaE[/MEDIA]later, an endless slew of scenes like this, acted like this:[MEDIA=youtube]AWl-REe6htw[/MEDIA]I looked for the Season 8 scene with Blake telling Krystle to back off on her investigation into Cecil&#039;s death, but I couldn&#039;t find it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Snarky Oracle!, post: 439273, member: 57984"] Probably. The audience loved early-Krystle (something the writing and S.A.D. destroyed pretty quickly) but even the producers admitted in 1985 -- just as Season 6 was starting up -- that the character who frustrated them the most was Krystle because they didn't know what to do with her. And that should never have happened. I can't imagine letting that happened to her. But it's because Krystle was nice. A lead character who was nice. And many writers have no idea how to write for a character who's nice -- other than have them get raped and, on occasion, replaced by evil twins. Linda eventually went to the writers (I'm guessing, Eillen Pollock) with ideas to allow Krystle to become more vital and pro-active, but that was met with "but that just isn't Krystle..." responses. So they just continued to throw slop at her in the scripts, keeping Krystle in the same box Blake wanted her. Thus, Krystle became so artificial, the viewers really turned on her (made worse by S.A.D., perhaps the worst creative choice of many the series ever adopted). Because there's nothing the public hates more than a "nice" character who is merely a superficial poseur. (Okay, okay, some hate the real nice ones even more, but that's another issue). Eileen "Mike" Pollock was rather open about her contempt for both Krystle and Linda. And it came out in the dialogue. When Alexis calls Krystle "boring" and says Krystle is only beautiful "when she smiles," or when Senator McVane inexplicably calls Krystle "arrogant" twice in Season 8, one suspects Pollock's true view of the actress and the character is leaking all over the pages of the script... Yes, these characters might insult Krystle in that fashion, but it smells more like contempt coming from off camera. And even with new writers for Season 8, who stole Krystle's thunder as she started to go after Alexis' complicity in Cecil's death?? I, myself, suspect the seasoned hand of sabotage from more supervisory producers. (Mike?). For all of Alexis' bravura and outrageousness, Krystle was at the heart of DYNASTY. And if you've lost interest in Krystle -- let alone completely -- then you've lost interest in DYNASTY as producers. When she becomes an inconvenience to write for, you've completely lost your way. And they had. All one has to do is, say, rewatch the 3-hour pilot, quietly majestic, or any of the crackling face-offs between Krystle and Alexis during Season 2, and then contrast that with what would happen later with Krystle, the scenes and pointless goody-goody words they'd toss her. It's shocking, really. And why it was such a relief when Paulsen, in the first episode of Season 9, finally [I]even acknowledge[/I] the shift in Krystle (i.e.,.e.g.?, "for years, she hasn't been herself...") [MEDIA=youtube]kV8cYHRXMAw[/MEDIA] [MEDIA=youtube]jvgcheLlPaE[/MEDIA] later, an endless slew of scenes like this, acted like this: [MEDIA=youtube]AWl-REe6htw[/MEDIA] I looked for the Season 8 scene with Blake telling Krystle to back off on her investigation into Cecil's death, but I couldn't find it. [/QUOTE]

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