Snarky Oracle!
Telly Talk Supreme
... no nervous rambling about pretentious nothings while avoiding an actual plot.
... no nervous rambling about pretentious nothings while avoiding an actual plot.
What would have happened if the show had stayed like this -- well written and well acted and where the past seems real?
Maybe that was partially in response to the audience, or media (although things weren't so interactive back then).Also because too many people started to have a say in what DYNASTY "should look like" and "feel like."
Oh, I can't really go along with that. I'd heard in the spring of 1988 that a "Dallas head honcho" would be taking over DYNASTY in the fall, but it wasn't until I saw the first episode of season 9 that I realized that it was the DALLAS honcho who'd made DALLAS work so well from 1982 to 1985 and again in '86/'87, because his style was written all over this new season of DYNASTY (even though it was clearly too late to save it, especially given the time slot change).And while Paulsen himself was a good choice for season nine, I think the mere fact that there was a single showrunner and a single creative vision for the show was itself more important than the fact that this was Paulsen.
O, Krystle and Alexis, we hardly knew ye.
Oh, I know... vapid, listless, unfocused.... Joan tries to keep it flowing, while Linda's less-is-more approach -- though better than squeaking -- comes off like her Klonopin dosage needs to be adjusted.From that............ to this:
How the hell did Joan know how to play that role so damn perfectly? How was it all so good. The perfect ingredients.Joannie makes you wanna scream. When she played Alexis with this cool yet vicious calm, you didn't know whether to ball up and cry or rip her limb from limb. Hence Linda's perfect reactions almost every time.
How the hell did Joan know how to play that role so damn perfectly? How was it all so good. The perfect ingredients.
Oh, I know... vapid, listless, unfocused.... Joan tries to keep it flowing, while Linda's less-is-more approach -- though better than squeaking -- comes off like her Klonopin dosage needs to be adjusted.
It's the producers' fault, though. There's no reason that this scene shouldn't work -- except for the fact that Alexis correctly calls Krystle's bluff, and that empty threat which shouldn't be empty has everything to do with why the moment can't work.
It's not serious, the threat from Krystle in the Season 8 season posted. Blake says "don't" and so Krystle stops pursuing it. Storyline over.Still, at this point I didn't know how serious or unserious Krystle's threat was, so I suppose the script was effective enough.
I like her voice in this scene, it's smoke-y and velvety, like her hair and fur.than the high-pitched squeaky one they're used to hearing in the subsequent seasons.
Before this scene? Did we already know that she couldn't or wouldn't do it?Blake says "don't" and so Krystle stops pursuing it
I like her voice in this scene, it's smoke-y and velvety, like her hair and fur.
But it must be difficult to raise and contain your voice at the same time. It usually sounds false.
Joan's voice was also softer in her first seasons.
Before this scene? Did we already know that she couldn't or wouldn't do it?
Yes, this season 8 scene at least doesn't have her typical shrieky stuff. But, as I said, her less-is-more approach is almost too subdued in this -- and I'm usually all for Krystle being self-restrained.I like her voice in this scene, it's smoke-y and velvety, like her hair and fur.