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They should've kept Nicole until the massacre cliffhanger imho. She could've been desperately hanging onto Jeff and be fodder to add to the mediocre death count. And before anyone says the obvious - how bizarre that they named her Nicole Simpsons. I mean the obvious connection.

Go "Guy Who Was Casted To Prove That We Aren't An Exclusively White Show"! Speaking of race - does anyone remember the episode where Saint Donna went to a black neighbourhood and ordered pizza for the kids of that hard working mom and then gave her [!@#$%^&*] about being a hard worker?

Bliss was on for the entire run of The Colby's, though her storylines were so crap that you'd be forgiven if you forgot that... though it was rumoured if there was a season three of The Colby's she would've been out. Her title card was more interesting than her character.

The best part about that is that you can clearly see that they used Joan Collins' stunt double in the scene where Blake runs to attack her. Apparently things were at their worst between Joan / John so she refused to do that scene because she was "afraid" (ya, right)

Michelle was an odd character - it was like when they decided to change April from a gold-digging skank to Bobby's new love interest, they gave her personality transplant and just created Michelle. Callie and JR were so yucky (sorry - Hagman's age was SERIOUSLY showing at that point) and her introduction storyline was horrible. Sasha Mitchell as an actor was lol. Hot, but lol.

Claudia, I feel, is so underrated as a character. Pamela Bellwood acted the crap out of that and Claudia certainly deserved better than the blaze of glory and the complete shrug off of "she wouldn't want a funeral" - writers, we followed Clauda's life for six seasons! Don't you think she deserved a funeral? But the writing in season seven was so schizophrenic anyway so maybe it was for the best... The Blaisdels seems to have been nixed from this reboot though. That story wouldn't have been *so* bad if at least Claudia was still there - it's like, where's the payoff? Matthew returns, he's magically managed to become a guerilla leader, oh and Lindsay's dead. Then so what? He kidnaps them all and Steven shoots him. Oh. The pointlessness of the storyline is hard to take, even if Dynasty was written by children with ADD at that point.

Season one of Dynasty would still fit on cable today. Season two perfected what Dynasty needed - mainstream appeal. If this reboot is like one of them: I'm in.

But Jeff is an "upstart" in the new reboot. That's another failure for this. They've essentially changed his character in a way I don't agree with, though with the Shapiros involved I should've expected it. Also making the Colby's/Carrington's WASP-y is a point in itself! A very direct one I might add.

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.