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<blockquote data-quote="Snarky Oracle!" data-source="post: 441649" data-attributes="member: 57984">Yes, the two-hour unaired pilot from Hamner was a mess, so Michael Filerman wisely hired Bob McCullough to re-write it. McCullough restructured it so that the Giobertis were still in their New York brownstone and then make the brave and exciting trek to the California wine country with considerable trepidation. (In THE VINTAGE YEARS, a different Chase &amp; Maggie are already there in Tuscany Valley and Angela was already having Lance bomb one of the outbuildings). So McCullough took the ideas from Hamner&#039;s original pilot and stretched them across the entire first season -- thus preventing the muddled-burnout dynamic promised and replaced it with coherent pacing and character-based motives other than the we&#039;re-fully-at-war narrative Hamner was offering up on Day One.Although I love the original version of Lance &amp; Cole&#039;s &quot;you dumb preppy&quot; scene filmed near the actual Villa Miravalle staircase in the VINTAGE pilot as directed by Alexander Singer, dark and creepy, as opposed to the blander, flat-lighted re-shoot later done on the studio set. And, yep, the problem with the Richard-is-Angela&#039;s-son switcheroo as Season 6 and 7 collided was not that they did it, but that no logical motive was provided once they did ---- I mean, talk about lazy! (Is this Moldavia??). Clearly, if Douglas would maintain a fond, three decade-long divorce relationship with Angela up until his death in 1982, he must have been duped by wicked, wicked Jacqueline after Richard was born in order to trick Douglas into helping her abscond with the baby.I argue that Jacqueline must have manipulated Douglas into believing that the baby wasn&#039;t his, the obvious explanation being that Angela had had an affair that never happened (with whom? I&#039;d guess Carlo Agretti, but who knows?). And once Douglas realized the ruse, he felt correctly guilty and helps Richard&#039;s career from the shadows. And Jacqueline, once exposed -- as a lyah!! -- assists in the grooming of her son he never was.Hence, her obvious preference for Chase.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Snarky Oracle!, post: 441649, member: 57984"] Yes, the two-hour unaired pilot from Hamner was a mess, so Michael Filerman wisely hired Bob McCullough to re-write it. McCullough restructured it so that the Giobertis were still in their New York brownstone and then make the brave and exciting trek to the California wine country with considerable trepidation. (In THE VINTAGE YEARS, a different Chase & Maggie are already there in Tuscany Valley and Angela was already having Lance bomb one of the outbuildings). So McCullough took the ideas from Hamner's original pilot and stretched them across the entire first season -- thus preventing the muddled-burnout dynamic promised and replaced it with coherent pacing and character-based motives other than the we're-fully-at-war narrative Hamner was offering up on Day One. Although I love the original version of Lance & Cole's "you dumb preppy" scene filmed near the actual Villa Miravalle staircase in the VINTAGE pilot as directed by Alexander Singer, dark and creepy, as opposed to the blander, flat-lighted re-shoot later done on the studio set. And, yep, the problem with the Richard-is-Angela's-son switcheroo as Season 6 and 7 collided was not that they did it, but that no logical motive was provided once they did ---- I mean, talk about lazy! (Is this Moldavia??). Clearly, if Douglas would maintain a fond, three decade-long divorce relationship with Angela up until his death in 1982, he [I][B]must [/B][/I]have been duped by wicked, wicked Jacqueline after Richard was born in order to trick Douglas into helping her abscond with the baby. I argue that Jacqueline must have manipulated Douglas into believing that the baby wasn't his, the obvious explanation being that Angela had had an affair that never happened (with whom? I'd guess Carlo Agretti, but who knows?). And once Douglas realized the ruse, he felt correctly guilty and helps Richard's career from the shadows. And Jacqueline, once exposed -- as a [I][B]lyah!! [/B][/I]-- assists in the grooming of her son he never was. Hence, her obvious preference for Chase. [/QUOTE]

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