The final scene of DYNASTY

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I mean, no one would come out and say it, or mention the pattern. It would be left to audiences to notice or not notice it.
 

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In the last scene they should have done a time skip and show Alexis as an old lady like they did with Madame Edith in the last scene of „Allo Allo”.
Alexis is bed-bound. She taps her cane and cries to be heard. Then Sammy Jo opens the door saying „Shut up you old bat”.
 
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They could also have done what they did in the short-running daytime soap "Rituals". Initially it was going to end (the season) with an unidentified person shooting a very unlikely but somewhat endearing couple. A la Katherine, the person who shot wanted him for herself.

In the next scene (at least in the version aired by Spanish TV), they went the "Flamingo Road" route, with a nun lighting candles (a la Claudia), who visited a man in a wheelchair, the victim of the shooting. So the lady who had shot, who was a clever, elegant woman all through the series, just became a nun and finally got his man for herself. I had the clips somewhere, just out of curiosity... Who knows where they are now. Most actors were quite decent in that show, by the way. Though there re-castings galore...

Blake might have gotten paralyzed, and Alexis managed somehow to "take care" of his ex...

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In the last scene they should have done a time skip and show Alexis as an old lady like they did with Madame Edith in the last scene of „Allo Allo”.
Alexis is bed-bound. She taps her cane and cries to be heard. Then Sammy Jo opens the door saying „Shut up you old bat”.

I'd envisioned the mansion on fire at night, the result of Caress knocking over a giant sconce after having been shot to death by Eva Braun, just as Blake, Krystle and Jeff return from court where Blake finally "got his company back". The picture blurs and ripples into a future shot of a huge story book, the final page displaying a drawing of what looks like the old Denver mansion in flames. And we hear Krystle's old lady voice reading, "And they lived happily ever after in that enchanted kingdom called Denver" -- she closes the red velvety book to reveal a photo of Blake, Krystle and Alexis on the cover. The little grandchildren, enraptured by the tales of life in mythical Colorado, gather ever closer around geriatric Krystle (whom never see, except for her aging hands, only the back of the wing chair she's in) and beg her to read it all again. And she proceeds to do just that.

And the camera, now across the room, drifts casually out the window, the viewer discovering that, for whatever reason, Krystle became a royal regent in Moldavia 30 years down the road. Dominique's "Stranger in Paradise" commences, Amanda's voice offers up that brief little Shakespearean "flights of angels" quip, and the scene ends set to a subdued interpretation of Conti's theme in acoustic guitar. The camera backs away from the castle, the edifice disappearing behind the clouds at sunset, with only the wind and an eagle's call audible as the scene fades to black.

Too hokey? Too cheesy? Too stupid?

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The final scene for me is Blake shot on the staircase not Blake and Krystle dancing in that fake mansion.
Blake died, Krystle died , fake Fallon and Kristina were killed in the tunnel by Grimes, Alexis and Dex were splat killed in the lobby of the Carlton hotel, Adam was sent to the gas chamber for murder, that’s how Dynasty ended.
That awful reunion never happened.
 
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The final scene for me is Blake shot on the staircase not Blake and Krystle dancing in that fake mansion.
Blake died, Krystle died , fake Fallon and Kristina were killed in the tunnel by Grimes, Alexis and Dec were splat killed, that’s how Dynasty ended.
That awful reunion never happened.

OMG! Everybody died???

Nobody even died in Moldavia!!

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The weekly series ended perfectly, but I’d end the REUNION along these lines:

The camera sweeps over a remote Swiss mansion perched on a jagged cliffside. Snow flurries swirl under an iron-gray sky, and the stark peaks of the Alps loom ominously in the background.

Inside, the cavernous living room is both opulent and cold, with high ceilings, dark wooden beams, and massive windows framing the frozen expanse outside. A roaring fire crackles in the hearth, casting flickering shadows on the walls.

Seated by the fire is Cecil Colby, gaunt and hollow-cheeked, confined to a sleek, custom wheelchair. Despite his frailty, his piercing eyes burn with malice. The man who faked his own death, escaping Denver’s justice for his conduct as Logan Rhinewood, with a fortune hidden in offshore accounts.

Opposite him, Lindsay Blaisdell, now in her late-20s, leans back in a velvet armchair, one leg crossed elegantly over the other. She is striking but unsettling, her once-innocent face now hardened following years of recovery and plastic surgery, her beauty sharpened into something ruthless. A glass of cognac glistens in her hand.

“We always knew they’d eat each other alive,” Cecil rasps, his voice gravelly from years of bitterness. “Blake was too blind, too arrogant to see the strings being pulled right in front of him.” He coughs violently but waves off Lindsay’s perfunctory offer to help.

She smirks, swirling her drink. “And Alexis. A creature of vanity. It didn’t take much to turn her ambition into a noose around her neck. Denver society has always loved a fall from grace.” She pauses, the corner of her mouth twitching. “They’ve been too busy fighting each other to see the blade coming down.”

The camera lingers on Cecil’s withered hands gripping the wheelchair’s armrests, veins bulging under thin skin. His smile is a venomous sneer. “And now,” he says, voice low, “the Carrington name will be nothing more than ashes. The empire… rubble.”

Lindsay rises and walks toward the window, her reflection merging with the snowstorm outside. Her voice is calm but laced with menace. “They deserved every bit of it. For what they did to my parents. To me. My mother thought I was dead… and I almost wished I had been.” She turns to Cecil, her eyes cold. “But you gave me purpose. A family.”

Cecil’s expression flickers with something deeper—something darker. “Family” he says softly, his tone shifting into something disturbingly intimate.

Cecil’s hand reaches out, trembling —a gesture somewhere between paternal and something far darker. “You’ve been my finest creation,” he says softly. “Stronger than your mother ever was. Smarter. Hungrier.” She walks over and kneels beside his wheelchair, her loving gaze locking onto his.

She then looks toward the fire while holding his hand, her face half-lit by the flickering flames. “Do you think they’ve figured it out yet?” she asks, almost absently.

Cecil chuckles again, this time a dry, rattling sound. “They’ll die still thinking they were undone by their own hubris. The perfect irony.”

Lindsay glances back at him, her smile fading into something colder. “Not hubris, Cecil. Justice.”

Lindsay moves even closer, placing her head lightly in his lap. The fire crackles louder, as if reacting to the sexual tension between them.

The camera pulls back as they sit together, silhouettes against the blazing fire. A clock chimes midnight, echoing through the mansion. Outside, the storm intensifies, burying the world in white silence.

As the scene fades, the camera lingers on a photograph from a several years prior resting on the mantle: a tad younger Cecil and a recovering Lindsay, arms draped around each other, their smiles eerily triumphant, signaling the impending doom of the Carrington dynasty. Freeze frame.
 

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don’t forget about me,
You thought you were going to erase me from existence
Think again
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We all helped bring down those arrogant Carrington’s,
 
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Actually the final scene of Dynasty the reunion should have been while they were all watching their “home movies” and after Alexis arrives another unexpected visitor shows up since after the pilot the guard and the locked gate disappeared and its Momma Blaisdel wearing a big trench coat.
She takes off her coat and it’s revealed she’s strapped a shit load of explosives to her body, takes out her remote control detonator and says a la Kimberly from MP” it’s not what you think…. It’s worse…. and blows them all along with that fake mansion into oblivion.
If anyone deserved a come back it was Dianna Douglas and her amazing bitch rendition of Mother Blaisdel
End it right there , what were they thinking after delivering that pile of shit after 2 years that they would get another tv movie out of it when we gave them their final FU to the nonsense they kept delivering
 
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Okay, here goes --- for the last episode of Season 10....

There's that late-night dinner between Alexis, Caress and Sable, the three women staying at the mansion to oversee the auction (and Alexis there for the greater security provided by the estate given that Dennis Grimes is stalking her).

A lot of Hush... Hush, Sweet Caress stuff comes out at dinner:

** Caress admits she was the one who told Blake where to catch Alexis with Roger Grimes back in 1964 (deliberately flooding the art studio that day to prevent Alexis' assignations there with "the help" and to force the naughty couple into the master bedroom of the mansion). Caress, who was "dating" the very-married Roger first, became jealous when he dumped her for her rich, older sister.

** Caress concedes that after Roger & Alexis were caught, and Blake beat him with the candelabra, Roger later raped Caress as punishment, impregnating her. (Sable seems startled by this revelation, which hints to the audience that Roger might have been her rapist, too).

After the dinner, Sable goes on a drive for some air, and Caress announces she has a late meeting in town.

The last quarter of the final Season 10 installment:

** Caress goes to Blake's office, confesses that she was the one who'd pulled Sable into the search for The Collection two years earlier after Sable was divorced by Jason. Caress claims she was unaware such a trove of disaster would result. Then, federal agents burst in and arrest Blake (he's been in legal trouble all season after the death of Captain Handler, and the public scandal over The Collection). As Blake is being manhandled through the doorway, he barks at Caress to call his lawyer, the number is in his rolodex... But Caress picks up the phone and calls somebody else, whispering that she doesn't like doing anything to hurt Blake, agreeing she'll see the unseen person on the phone later.

** The younger family members chat at Fallon's lakeside chalet in Aspen, Colorado. Discuss their waning plots.

** Caress arrives back at the near-empty mansion and is confronted in her room by an elderly woman in a wheelchair with a pistol (with a silencer) who angrily hisses that Caress has failed again in her duty to obtain the crystal skull (little do they know, Adam found it in the cellar earlier in the season and absconded with it in order to give it to his mother, Alexis). The vengeful old woman rages that "the Morell women and the Scott sisters" will no longer be the bane of her existence. Caress gasps, "No, no!" and yet does so almost quietly, as if the truth is too ghastly to utter -- even moments before she's about to die.

** Drunk from the earlier revelations over supper, Alexis barely hears the sconce fall upstairs as Caress is killed. Big sister, soused and sloppy, wanders into the darkened ballroom and pours herself another drink at the bar in the corner. She overhears the tiny crackle of glass and witnesses Dennis Grimes stepping through a french door. She finds in her pink robe pocket the derringer Adam had given her that very day "for protection". She pulls the tiny gun out and points is at Dennis, yells "Stop!" and Dennis, who, pausing and seeing that she's inebriated, suddenly yanks out a 44 magnum (or something big) causing a panicked Alexis to step forward, trip over the leg of a divan, and drop her firearm, the derringer discharging as it hits the ballroom floor, hitting Dennis Grimes in the head, killing him instantly... Near hysteria, Alexis starts trying to hide his body just as the overhead chandeliers flip on and the reflection of a high-heeled intruder's legs and feet can be glimpsed in the broken french door behind Alexis... The camera spins 180-degrees to see that the intruder is indeed Krystle, fresh from one year in an asylum, who has flipped on the lights; she walks pensively across the floor to a green wingchair, gnawing on her lips in her attempt to assess the situation... Alexis just hyperventilates wildly and sweats like a cow.

No music. Fade to black. Weekly series over.

** And THE REUNION from 1991...?

We pick up from that same night, Alexis & Krystle dump the body in the Delta Rho lake, both women presumably chemically altered; the Consortium would be the same cabal that had been searching for The Collection; and Alexis would fly back to London, on her jet, Fallon and Adam in tow, with her green-glowing crystal skull safe in its velvet black carrying case; she's smirkingly satisfied that she wreaked her revenge and reaped the spoils after a long, climactic decade back in Denver; and, in the final moment, Blake & Krystle have their late dance in the ballroom (Ideally, to Dominique's rendition of 'Stranger in Paradise) soon replaced by Krystle's Theme, and the camera backs off.

No freeze frame, Fade to black.

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Despite the rest of it, I had persuaded myself that I rather liked the last scene of the Reunion. I’ve watched it again and have to revise that. Apart from one cheesy statement that merely reinforces her passivity, Krystle is completely bereft of agency in this scene. It’s Blake who schmoozes in that typically manipulative way.

Was the ‘clinic’ Krystle visited the one the wives of Stepford were packed off to?
 

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The whole affair is a tacked-on happy ending for the fans, including a few greatest hits. It doesn't look great but at least it's something, I guess.
It's the nature of these reunion type of movies: Dallas, Knots Landing, Peyton Place - it was all the same fluff that reminded me that it wasn't the series anymore.

My perfect ending for DALLAS is the return of Jock just when JR is about to shoot himself (not). Not Jim Davis' face, of course. Just the boots, a cane and a chauffeur calling him Mr. Ewing. When he walks towards the house he hears the shot in JR's bedroom. The End.
 

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The whole affair is a tacked-on happy ending for the fans, including a few greatest hits. It doesn't look great but at least it's something, I guess.
It's the nature of these reunion type of movies: Dallas, Knots Landing, Peyton Place - it was all the same fluff that reminded me that it wasn't the series anymore.

Well, of course that's what THE REUNION from 1991 was, but what should it have been?? The original team who'd ruined the series were now back -- but a different ending (other than Blake & Krystle's last dance, which I'm fine with, except for the looped and oddly deleted dialogue) was needed other than what that team offered us as they ruined THE REUNION, too.

But what would you have wanted to see?

I like mine, but I'm willing to listen to reason.
 

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That horrible reunion never should have happened.
Dynasty should have been cancelled in 1987 when season 7 ended.
The producers, writers had 2 years to get the show back on track, at least up to season 3-5 standards and they couldn’t do it.
Season 6 was horrible, try viewing season 7,
Fake Amanda, they didn’t even try to have her do a British accent, Alexis putting gold palm trees in the master bedroom of the mansion only for Dominique to give Blake millions to get it back.
Alexis runs an oil company PLUS a newspaper,
Ok sure.
Then they stop mid way and throw in a stunt plot but John F still won’t “cheat” on his beloved Linda, then everyone becomes nice to each other for no reason, they bring in another replacement who is just as bad as fake Amanda, oh but she wears men’s suits , how groundbreaking
It should have ended with that stupid finale.
It would have been fitting for Dynasty and The Colby’s to get canned at the same time, both were shyte
Real Dynasty ended in 1984 and was kept going one more year by shear marketing.
Dynasty ends with crazy Matthew’s jungle crew shooting and stabbing (they knew from Moldavia that bullets alone didn’t do the trick with these people) to death the wedding party.
Alexis drowns from the car crash into the river.
 
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Seasons 1-3, 4a, 9 in that order.
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The Reunion- Bobble heads bobbling,
It’s been decades that these 2 haven’t neeed to starve themselves into skeletons, and they haven’t.
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4 before 9?
Yes,
It still had PSM who was investigating her brother, an important plot that got ignored until the season 3 finale.
Joan looked her best in the beginning of 4 before the wigs took over, she lost weight.
Blake got a bit of his season 1 mojo back taking his son to court, that scene with Joan outside after Kirby attacked her was almost like it could have been in season 1.
Adam framing his mother,
Alexis had a smoothness to her that year.
Season 9 had:
Joan looking haggard
John looking haggard
Emma playing PSM
Joanna, Virginia, they didn’t work at all
It was time to call it done while season 4 was on the rise
That quote, I still don’t know what it’s supposed to mean but it came from season 6, along with 7-8 and the reunion - all unwatchable
You can’t make a tv comeback on a show that’s almost a decade old after 3 seasons of total crap
 
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