GillesDenver
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It's a sort of meta-reference because "the Colbys"was broadcasted on Thursdays.
That's such a simple and lazy point of view.
THE COLBYS challenges the viewer to think outside the box.
Or challenge to crawl inside her box. Which also makes her a slut.
You're asking this about 6 episodes in? ....Maybe the writers felt they shouldn't have to go down that road?2. Why does no one suggest a paternity test for the Jeff/Phillp/Jason/father thing. Dallas did it 5 years earlier, it wasn't like they didn't have the scientific technology
2. Why does no one suggest a paternity test for the Jeff/Phillp/Jason/father thing. Dallas did it 5 years earlier, it wasn't like they didn't have the scientific technology
You're asking this about 6 episodes in? ....Maybe the writers felt they shouldn't have to go down that road?
As @tommie has just pointed out the science wasn't as advanced to work out which Colby was Jeff's father which is fair (though they weren't asking which Colby at that point, just whether he was a Colby, so they could have asked for samples from various family members and seen whether they match, no?).
a paternity test for the Jeff/Phillp/Jason/father thing
Right. Phil didn't believe the child was his. Frankie insisted it was. It wasn't on anybody's radar that Jason was a candidate for being Jeff's parent, other than Jason himself. So it wouldn't have occured to Miles -- who was bringing the case -- that another Colby was Jeff's father and demand paternity tests. IIRC, to him & the rest of the family, the Jason-Frankie hook-up was something from out of the present not the past.Francesca up in court being hounded about who Jeff's father is
It would have been so much FUN if Jason had made all his children line up to submit to a blood test...What a shock he might have had...!!
I'm watching this show now, I'm only about a quarter of the way through the first season. A few things that stand out so far:
1. I don't know if this is popular/unpopular as I don't read much of the Dynasty forum but Fallon 2 is s far removed from Fallon 1 it's actually pretty distracting. They didn't just replace the actress, they literally switched out the character
Cecil and Jason are brothers too.
The character is Fallon in name only, and she was written and directed that way. That became obvious as soon as Samms moved to DYNASTY's season 8, and she instantly became less of a hausfrau victim.
Every time I criticize the spin-off for not really trying to attract DYNASTY fans (for there was no other pool) as KNOTS did with a Ewing, I get the answer "well, they had Fallon who has a Carrington." But really, they didn't.
I can only imagine how self-indulgent that would have been.In Joan’s autobiography she mentions there was talk of a spin off called Alexis which likely to be more successful than The Colbys as it features Dynasty’s most popular character
True. The only character from Dynasty was Jeff and hardly strong enough to spawn a spin off. The original concept was for Pamela Sue’s Fallon and Jeff to run a hotel but PS obviously didn’t want to.
In Joan’s autobiography she mentions there was talk of a spin off called Alexis which likely to be more successful than The Colbys as it features Dynasty’s most popular character. But Joan was deemed too valuable to the original so she didn’t push it, which she concedes may have been a mistake.
An Alexis spin-off would just be about how amazing Alexis is and who would want to watch that? No thanks, that's one character that needed others to balance them out.
I believe that was an early version of what eventually became Spelling's Hotel. I have always wanted a DYNASTY spin-off to have its timeslot after DYNASTY, and I think had it premiered in 1983 at that slot it would have had a better fate. But the love-boat-style nature of the Hotel concept was not really a Dynasty spin-off or of the soap genre. I think it's weird that they ended up saddling Fallon with a Hotel anyway on Dynasty--perhaps it was their way of punishing her.
I have always said that Connie was one of the Colby brothers' mother. My money was on Philip. It would explain a fair bit. And Connie was older than America.Are we sure about that ? I mean, whoring runs in the Colby history.
I have always said that Connie was one of the Colby brothers' mother. My money was on Philip. It would explain a fair bit. And Connie was older than America.