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No remaster ( I figured that was the case) but it still looks a little better than the 20 year old soapnet episode's that were the real only way to watch the show online for the past few years.

As someone who watched the show for the first time when it started streaming on Freevee, I think any part of season 2 is the most "pure" Falcon Crest.

I bought season 7 on Apple and the HD combined with the Bradford May lighting gives it a very un-Dallas like cinematic feel.

Rewatching the Katherine stuff, if they just listened to Afton when she called Pam in Paris about Katherine, so many things could of been avoided for the characters. And not just on Dallas on Knots also.

On some level Greg will always have a bit of a mask on. That's why moments like him crying and kind of falling apart watching Laura's farewell video after she died feels a big more special and personal than most soap grief.

Eric and Michael have real "Wonder Fairgate brothers powers activate!" vibes in episode 9. On the subject of the preacher, I'm confused with what I think is supposed to be a cable news station having a religious show on it (even if the preacher seems more of a middle of the road type than a Pat Robertson type). Howard Duff who played Paul Galveston played a similar character on Dallas a few years later.

With Greg, they really do a consistent line of Greg keeping the mask on for the rest of the show (although in later seasons it would be more the case of Greg meeting almost every remark with a sarcastic quip). And it makes the rare cases of the viewers seeing Greg's true emotions seem special (Greg's private reaction to Laura's video after her death is one of the few things on a primetime soap that have ever brought me to tears).

Since I rewatched this episode a few days ago my question is what kind of horrible horror movie-like nightmare was Oliva having that Abby had to sleep in the same bed as her? I will pretend she was having some premonition about Val's baby's being stolen. And I love that the Cul- De- Sac is such a close place that Michael appears to know Gary's ranch house telephone number by heart.

I've been rewatching season 6 and I have to say that episode 9 is one of the best episodes I can remember. The combination of Richard Gollance and Larry Elikan is a good one.

Petersen was in the opening in season 11 and 12. Shaw was never in the opening. Crowe was only in the season 11 opening but she probably had more actual screen time in the couple seasons before that.

Michael stays around till the end of season 12 and has a decent sized storyline in season 11. I think Eric leaves the show sometime in season 8 and comes back a few times for the Michael/Eric/Linda storyline but unfortunately Steve Shaw passed away during season 12. I think Olivia's storylines were okay until her last season. That was the season after Donna Mills left.

The interesting thing is due to I guess the huge difference between the number of CBS viewers and Fox viewers in the early 90's, Knots in it's last seasons always beat 90210 (at that shows peak of popularity!) in the ratings (well not in the younger demo ratings I assume) http://www.thetvratingsguide.com/2020/03/1992-93-ratings-history.html

The end of Season 13 and 14 were big improvements. The short Val/Greg storyline was the best story Val had in years since she's probably the main character to suffer the most in the post-peak years. You know it's funny how the show was on for such a long time that it was competing with the 90's Fox soaps. by the end (well just for the first season of Melrose).

To me even though the show changes and has a really rough season 8, it always at least watchable to me until around the start of season 13. It takes a long time for the show to have a kind of "why are we still doing this?" feeling that I got from say Melrose Place as early as season 5.