I think the issue is that it's very lazily written - ok, Heather is a bitch and schemer just because they want her to be. Gwen hates Heather because Heather is a bitchy schemer. Jenny's storyline is very much repetitious, though I did like her becoming bitchier after almost drowning.
Yes, as I've said before, while some of the endings may not have been great, Spelling usually tried to have some sort of closure at the end of his shorter lived soaps (see Malibu Shores, Pacific Palisades, 2000 Malibu Road & Models Inc) in order to help with hawking them overseas as limited run series after they'd crashed and burned in the US. I didn't know that they'd ordered extra scripts for Titans. I'm guessing they may have been banking on those or maybe Spelling wasn't arsed with wrapping it up as the glossy miniseries genre wasn't really in vogue any longer by the early 00's.
I strongly disagree there. Priscilla Garita is terribly smooth, she is in the same league that the Williams sisters. Lourdes Benedicto has much more temper. I can see why Spelling really wanted her.
I am used to Priscilla from other things and just find her more exciting to watch. I do think she's a pretty good actress, and liked her chemistry better with Van Dien and Principal. Lourdes as Samantha bores me to death in the same way the sisters do. Van Dien isn't the greatest actor, especially not when given a lot to do. In the business stuff when he has scenes where he's up against John Barrowman his weaknesses as an actor really show. He's good in the romantic, love scene stuff and if that's the way it has to go, then I am fine with that. He should be shirtless or in a state in semi-undress in all his scenes, unless he's in his white naval uniform.
I think the only in show reference to the title was a scene where one of their airplanes was called Titan. I'm guessing Spelling liked the name after using it on Dynasty as the episode title for the Colby clan intro episodes. As you said, they weren't exactly world class power brokers, so it's an odd fit for what the show was.
This was one of the criticisms I remember reading at the time. That everything from the Williams name to the intro music felt pedestrian compared to grandiose trappings of it's 80's predecessors.
He often looked a bit overwhelmed by it all but, well, he's still Casper. I don't think he suffered the most from the writing whereas Peter as the *cough-cough* main villain was downright unwatchable.
As other people have said, the writing for her just doesn't make sense. Is she a gold-digger? If so, why did she do the whole wedding reveal and why is she pretty much trying to bang Chandler right away? Ultimately, there's no suspense in the writing for her and we don't root for her, or even against her. She's just kind of written all over the place as a character, when she's supposedly "the outsider" who's meant to be or glance into this world. I don't think we even got a proper explanation about she and Richard met.
In the later episodes his storyline gets a bit more focused, but I think the issue stems down to how Chuck Pratt Jr writes his shows - he likely didn't do a story bible or even plan out the season properly where he knew that he wanted to get from point a to point b to point c. This is of course a terrible way to write any soap - I'm not even saying that you necessarily have to have some grand plan and outline, just a fair amount of knowledge who your characters are, what their motivations are and where you want them to end up at the end of the season.
Yes, it's very noticeable at the dinner party when one of the daughters shows up wearing a halter crop top and trousers. If this was Dynasty or The Colbys all the ladies would be in gowns for a dinner party, even if it was at their own house.
