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When I watched season 1 and 2 with my husband, he liked only season 1... as soon as Joan Collins and the real camp started... I lost him. To this day he tells me she acts so bad that he can't watch. And then I try to explain to him that it's Alexis over-reacting and being fake, not Joan not acting. LOL. I loved season 2! That was the season where Alexis was working for me.

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Another mistake they made was they to put it out there immediately that Steven was gay. They should have slowly built up that bombshell without any give away what Steven is hiding. Have Steven and Lindsay fall in love and marry to the disapproval of both families. Then they have a child and they appear to have a picture perfect life for a season or two. Lindsay then starts to suspect he may be cheating on her with another woman since many women are flirting and coming onto him. It all comes to a head when she catches him bed with Ted Dinard. BOOM !!! Steven is revealed to the audience as gay. 

Maybe Lindsay and Steven agree to a lavender marriage to keep up appearances in front of everyone. They even go to therapy to fix things. Lindsay is miserable and may self medicate. She eventually snaps and accidentally kills Ted in a fit of rage. 

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My friend stumbled onto Dynasty and is almost through season 1.  He's raving about how good it is....so I did caution that the rest of the show isn't like season 1...but he would enjoy season 2.

My late mom told me that she stopped liking the show in season 3.  She said one of the things she found interesting in season 2 was when Alexis was living in the gatehouse.  She said it created organic conflict and she wanted to see Alexis gradually develop her power...and thought it happened too quickly.

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Obviously, if I were rebooting DYNASTY today, I'd lean hard into making Steven a sexually fluid character, with both male and female love interests.  Just as I'd give Fallon a sort of "daddy complex" that compels her to pursue much older men.

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Remember that Dynasty is a product of the Reagan era (it's run began just before Reagan took office and ended shortly after Reagan left office and to me it was the epitome of Reagan era excess and greed) so what we see on screen reflects the mindset of society at that time. You have to watch Aaron Spelling shows and 1980s primetime soaps with the mindset that they are products of their time and alot of things have not held up well through a 2024 lens.

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LOL wasn’t the woman in the limo supposed to be a returning Dominique had the series been renewed for a Season 10? I still can’t Paulsen chose not to have some time type of closure for Season 9…did he and Spelling just ignore the writing on the wall??

Idk Matt coming back from the dead to hold the family hostage and die again was already too much. 

@j swift I agree to some extent about the Dynasty reboot especially once we got Cristal 3.0 and Alexis 3.0

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ICAM.  Even Spelling's classiest series, "Family," probably looks too quaint compared to similar shows that are produced today.

I think the producers knew that the show was likely gone, but they still held out hope that they could keep going and reinvent the show for the '90's, much like David Jacobs and the Lechowicks had done with KL.  

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Complete incompetence on their part. 
 

Falcon Crest’s writers saw the writing on the wall and ended the show in a tidy satisfying way.

Yet Dynasty and Dallas both ended on the minuscule hope they’d get renewed…by whom lol. What a [!@#$%^&*] mess TPTB got themselves into

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I think it's worth to remember that ABC's Thursday night slate was a mess - Dynasty was actually the highest rated show for them on the night! Season 9 also started out with a 13 episode order that got extended into a 22 episode season and ABC had John Forsythe and Emma Samms go present People's Choice Awards in March, so they might've been cautiously optimistic. 

 

Shows like thirtysomething also wasn't exactly setting the ratings on fire either - it reached the "height" of #41 in the overall rankings that season and was clearly seen as a "hit" by ABC (possibly because of demographics + critical acclaim). 

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Yeah, I agree. There was no writing on the wall to be seen. Dynasty was still doing well for its time slot for ABC. The show had been given a HUGE creative push by Jacobs. The show was still doing well in Europe, especially with Stephanie Beacham rejoining the show (or finally joining the original show.) ABC's decision to not renew the series was last minute and completely unexpected.

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