@Arikm7 Yikes, , you really missed the whole point of the show then, and the character. Emma Samms should never have gotten off that spaceship. Clearly the aliens lobotomized Fallon when she turned into Samms...
@Arikm7 No. Emma Samms ruined the character. This is how Fallon was written in season 1. She mellowed by season 3 but was still strong and had a backbone
@@bkynbiker Disagree strongly. The character was lobotomized long before she got on the spaceship. The writing started to get worse in seasons five and six, and hit the absolute rock bottom in seven and eight. Samms was arguably miscast as Fallon (it would have been interesting to see her as Amanda, though), but what isn't arguable is that Martin had *much* better scripts to work with. Also, the bulk of her time on the show was spent playing Fallon as the vixen--young, unscrupulous, alpha-bitch-in-training. Towards the end of her run, Fallon started to be written as the tragedy queen--things happen *to* her rather than *because* of her. The de Vilbis storyline is the prime example of that. When the writers started writing Fallon as a vixen again in season nine, Samms got a much better hold on the character.
@@phoenixnyc Disagree with what? I agree she was softened somewhat after seasons 1 and 2, especially once she became friends with Krystal. But she wasn't (PSM I mean..) even on it during 5 and 6. I never said PSM didn't have better writing to work with btw. I didn't like the direction they were taking her when she left the show, and maybe she didn't either, but she was great in those early episodes - especially before the arrival of Dame Collins
@@bkynbiker I disagree with the idea that the aliens "lobotomized" Fallon to make her such weak sauce - the damage had been done to the character long before, starting in the PSM era. The Peter de Vilbis storyline is what cemented the "perpetual victim" persona for Fallon, which may be part of the reason why PSM decided to cut her losses.
The horrible truth is, the 1 season was really interresting drama with a really awesome socio-and-psychological background. But it was too much for the 80s tv. And Alexis saved the show from drowning but pushed it into the camp and ridiculous soap opera in the same time. No matter how amazing Joan Collins were and how much we all love Alexis character. Dynasty starts from post-cindirella fantasy: Lonely Krystle in the castle where she didnt belong, surrounded by servants who disrespect her, mentally disturbed siblings Steven and Fallon and their problems with self acceptance. It was good! But ended with catfights, amnesia, and other stupid sh*t like that :)
@@bramlintrent1145 It was boring and trying to be Dallas with all the business storylines. Nobody cared. They did something totally different by season 2: everybody remembers Dynasty now because of it.
@@bramlintrent1145 ... Seasons 1, 2 and 9 were great, albeit different from each other. S1 was serious but a bit too slow-paced. S2 got the balance right and became the defining year of the show. S3 thru 8 saw the writing get dumber and dumber, made worse by a static acting policy the producers began enforcing around the third year. Nevertheless, rating continued to rise thru Season 5 due to stars and the clothes, But after they bungled the Moldavian massacre aftermath, people began tune out in droves and the show just got worse... Season 9 had a new producer, and it was a wild improvement, but nobody saw it -- the audience was already gone and ABC buried the show to kill it.
I always thought it was funny with Dynasty the lack of continuity as to where rooms in the mansion were located. Here the dining room is where the entrance foyer would be located in other seasons. Throughout the series characters would wander in and out of doors on the main hallway set, to the right of the staircase, which often didn’t match the location of whatever room it was supposed to be from previous episodes.
@@jakewible6139 Normally what I have discovered with my family genealogy is people who married cousins actually had no knowledge of it. It was because they only had records going two to four generations back. Although in wealthy aristocratic families it was usually well known if they were cousins. FDR and his wife are examples of that.
Because season one was on my birthday when it first aired on 1981 of January 12th. It does seem very interesting with the truth. There was a couple in the surprise 25th anniversary party that who got invited it was my parents they were invited. The place was Hogan’s Irish pub and that was the year in 1988. Because My Mom’s birthday was July 11 1963. But later after that July 24th was when Blake and Alexis had a divorce. There grandson was the first born son later after that happened. During the reboot Baby Matthew was outside of the doorstep by Alexis trailer. There was note saying Hi my name is Matthew and my Claudia is my mother and she is crazy. There has to be evidence in that case. Because Fallon gave birth to her first born son as a baby boy and married Jeff Colby and there son has been missing from getting kidnapped.
lol seriously I guess for rich people smoking a joint is just so normal. And Blake giggling when his daughter invites his wife to go skinny dipping? Really?
My grand mother is far more aristocratic and wealthy than the Carringtons and Colbys put together , with a family tree almost dating back to Methuselah, three castles and and army of staff , but she has NEVER tolerated staff to be standing while she ate or lounged . If staff is not needed , then they should be either doing something else or relaxing, and if required then they should be sitting on a chair. She considers standing and waiting to be a form of torture not a job and would never torture her staff . Every time i see any scene with staff standing and waiting, it only reminds me on how humane my grand mother is .
