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<blockquote data-quote="Colterton" data-source="post: 439755" data-attributes="member: 2748">Many people have commented that Season 8 (especially after the retoolings in 6 &amp; 7) had a fairly clear, season long story arc, and therefore producers will have been working to a clear(ish) climax for the season and what this would look like, from the start. It seems therefore that the kidnap of Adams son, the custody trial result, and the fight and shooting involving Sean and Dex, were the originally planned cliffhangers. Indeed the freeze frame of Alexis wondering which of her former husbands had been shot, could have been the planned freeze frame to end the season.When Linda Evans decided to step away from Dynasty in early 1988 as reported by the press, it coincided with talks for David Paulsen to come over and take creative control of the show for 1988-89 Season 9 (albeit on an initial 13 episode order with the potential for the backfill 9 if successful). There is an interview somewhere where he notes how producers of Season 8 were gracious in letting him have some minimal input into the final episodes and the story of Season 8, to help set up Season 9, and so it is likely that Krystle’s headaches and the subsequent “I thought we had more time” final new cliffhanger, was partly Paulsens work and input, to help give some breathing space to him and his new team to then flesh out how to write Krystle out during Season 9 over the summer hiatus between seasons.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Colterton, post: 439755, member: 2748"] Many people have commented that Season 8 (especially after the retoolings in 6 & 7) had a fairly clear, season long story arc, and therefore producers will have been working to a clear(ish) climax for the season and what this would look like, from the start. It seems therefore that the kidnap of Adams son, the custody trial result, and the fight and shooting involving Sean and Dex, were the originally planned cliffhangers. Indeed the freeze frame of Alexis wondering which of her former husbands had been shot, could have been the planned freeze frame to end the season. When Linda Evans decided to step away from Dynasty in early 1988 as reported by the press, it coincided with talks for David Paulsen to come over and take creative control of the show for 1988-89 Season 9 (albeit on an initial 13 episode order with the potential for the backfill 9 if successful). There is an interview somewhere where he notes how producers of Season 8 were gracious in letting him have some minimal input into the final episodes and the story of Season 8, to help set up Season 9, and so it is likely that Krystle’s headaches and the subsequent “I thought we had more time” final new cliffhanger, was partly Paulsens work and input, to help give some breathing space to him and his new team to then flesh out how to write Krystle out during Season 9 over the summer hiatus between seasons. [/QUOTE]

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