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<blockquote data-quote="Grant Jennings" data-source="post: 130392" data-attributes="member: 746">I think a lot of us went from a first impression of &quot;this isn&#039;t Krystle!&quot; to thinking around mid-season &quot;she may not be Krystle, but I like her anyway&quot;. When the show debuted most of the characters were painted with too broad a brush; add to that the fact that Cristal was the character probably the least like her original counterpart. This was enough to put a lot of us off Cristal/Celia/Nathalie.&nbsp; By mid-season the writing had improved and the writers and Nathalie Kelley both appeared to have a better grasp of the character. Unfortunately the producers, writers and network executives (especially the network executives) lacked the patience to allow the viewers the time to get to know and like Cristal.I think a lack of patience is the show&#039;s biggest shortcoming. Consider the handling of the Hank/Adam plot: this could have (in my opinion should have) played out over several episodes instead of happening at breakneck speed the way it did. If they had a little patience they may have seen that viewers were beginning to warm to Cristal.I don&#039;t understand the &quot;shit storm&quot; and &quot;goodbye peach Dynasty&quot; comments; we&#039;ve known since the first episode that Cristal Flores was really Celia Machado so the possibility that there is a real Cristal Flores is entirely plausible.I hope the new Cristal is a sympathetic and honorable person, the show already has enough conniving villains and psychopaths.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Grant Jennings, post: 130392, member: 746"] I think a lot of us went from a first impression of "this isn't Krystle!" to thinking around mid-season "she may not be Krystle, but I like her anyway". When the show debuted most of the characters were painted with too broad a brush; add to that the fact that Cristal was the character probably the least like her original counterpart. This was enough to put a lot of us off Cristal/Celia/Nathalie. By mid-season the writing had improved and the writers and Nathalie Kelley both appeared to have a better grasp of the character. Unfortunately the producers, writers and network executives (especially the network executives) lacked the patience to allow the viewers the time to get to know and like Cristal. I think a lack of patience is the show's biggest shortcoming. Consider the handling of the Hank/Adam plot: this could have (in my opinion should have) played out over several episodes instead of happening at breakneck speed the way it did. If they had a little patience they may have seen that viewers were beginning to warm to Cristal. I don't understand the "shit storm" and "goodbye peach Dynasty" comments; we've known since the first episode that Cristal Flores was really Celia Machado so the possibility that there is a real Cristal Flores is entirely plausible. I hope the new Cristal is a sympathetic and honorable person, the show already has enough conniving villains and psychopaths. [/QUOTE]

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