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But sometimes it does matter. Change Krystle's etnicity? Fine - she's supposed to be middle class marrying into a wealthy family. Change Matthew Blaisdel (who doesn't seem to be in this reboot at all)? Fine - se above. Change WASP-y Jeff Colby? Um... it does change A LOT. It also alters the whole Carringtons vs Colbys storyline. The Colby's were wealthier and more powerful than the Carringtons to start - hence why Blake pushed Fallon to marry Jeff. I could go on and on and on, but I guess I'll have to wait to see the results.

I don't mind it altering the original structure (since it ended up sucking), but I do mind changing the base of the characters

The Colby's are - if anything - even more WASPier than the Carringtons. They are old money. That's why Blake wants Fallon to marry prep boy Jeff.

The point is that they're a bunch of WASPs. Krystle being hispanic doesn't change that. Nor would Matthew Blaisdel being black change it. But the whole point of Dynasty was that this woman from a not favourable background marrying into these... WASPs. And of course Fallon hating her because Fallon has daddy issues.

"You're as welcome as a tsunami after an earthquake" - Melrose has so many quoteables!

The original cliffhanger idea of Kimberly kidnapping Sydney and crashing a plane into Melrose Place make sense post-suicide attempt. "Me and the missus don't like you very much" - watch your back Syd!

I forgot this whole "random bad plot that cop is gay and wants to sex Matt"-plot. It's hilarious. And bad. It's like - "we ran out of plot ideas and had to give him something". Matt is Gay. A Gay is Matt. Jo at least takes control!

There's so much things to build on from season three - Jasmine Guy! Traci Lords returning! Maybe even Alison's sister... yet they never did. The episode title "Boxing Sydney"...

I'm watching season three and this is like soap on crack! Kimberly's going to fail her psych eval! Amanda's suddenly feeling tired (leading to her cancer)! Sydney's about to join a cult with Traci Lords! Alison will survive - she's like a rash I can't get rid off.

It sort of made sense - before Peter, Lexi had only been with Coop, who betrayed her with Kimberly. Peter betrayed her because he was still "in love with Amanda". Then she got with Coop, who again betrayed/left her. From a human point of view, she had to direct her anger at someone so Amanda ended up being on her hitlist. In the first few episodes of the proper season seven she tried to get Peter back / hurt him, but realised she couldn't. I think the scene where she's about to confront Amanda and backs out shows this in the proper 7.03. Edit: watching the custody trial for Jo's baby is hilarious. Especially how all the apartment tentants are grilled about their trashy lives. Yikes!

Amanda and Sydney as roommates were one of those plotlines they needed to do more with - or more scenes with rather. But Sydney as a character? Annoying bug to Amanda. As for Amanda tangling with other females... post-Alison years you can literally just replace them with Alison. As I said - change "Sam" to "Alison" in season six and their scenes become a lot better and logical (well, for Melrose). Change "Jane" for "Alison" in their scenes and it becomes more logical. Jane worked better because she had an history with Amanda, so there's that. I honestly didn't like Alison in the original run and still unsure if I do now, but she was vital to the show.

Bar screwing over Bruce, Amanda actually never crossed anyone who didn't cross her. The "Bruce incident" in season three was as evil as Amanda got on the show. I know Joan Collins likes to tout Alexis as a business woman, when in all honesty, Alexis wasn't. Amanda was a business woman, for better and worse.

PETER DUNNE - that's his name. How could I forget?

Oh and as a side piece - a Knots Landing writer is brought in as a story writer in the last season; Pete-something-something? He really brings the whole show to an amazing ending. I really wished it could've gone on to season 8 as I felt the show was having a new energy.

"You're poaching. And poachers get shot," - What the hell Amanda? Isn't that a death threat against Alison? How rude. Funnily enough, when Melrose was cancelled Darren Star commented that he envisioned the show to go on at least as long as Knots Landing. He left to do the unsuccessful Central Park West after season three so go figure. (his last episode was #100)

Maybe it was a vacation, to be honest, the post-Pam seasons are an increasing blur to me as the series go on.

Lucy moved to Europe in one of the last episodes of season 13, but I can't for my life recall why.

Sheree was pregnant, so she wanted out. Charlene Tilton was let go. Barbara Bel Geddes was offered to appear in limited episodes like Howard Keel, but she told them to go F themselves (in a more ladylike manner, of course). As you can tell watching it, they pretty much cut back on every actor except Larry Hagman and Patrick Duffy due to budget reasons.

Well, she quit, but it was a mutual decision. They needed to cut the costs and I guess Susan Sullivan saw a way out.

I've always been amazed when watching old prime time soap promos how they'd give literally everything away for the cliffhangers - Melrose Place and Beverly Hills 90210 did this too.

It always amused me that Amanda was supposed to be the bitchy boss at work when the truth is that Alison was lucky to be employed as long as she was. I mean, the woman got drunk at business dinners, got into a catfight at a company Christmas function, regularly skipped work for whatever drama she went through that week and showed an inability to listen to clients when she showed the "naughty" pictures Jo took, yet she still gave Alison her job back when she was blind. I'm all for overcoming handicaps and all that, but [!@#$%^&*]. Advertising, especially the ones we saw D&D do, is a visual medium. What exactly did Alison do at D&D the short period she was blind?

Let's discuss Alison becoming president of D&D a few weeks after her stint in rehab, in addition to her horrible attendence record and her general behavior at work. Best employee ever.

Interesting that CBS re-released Dynasty with the reboot coming up on the pilot front... Sign that they are investing in the show again?

I've always laughed at those Student of the Week stories that were never seen again, despite getting SO close to The Cult. I still think they buried them somewhere in the desert. There's a massgrave out there somewhere!

Ssh! Spoilers for certain peeps!