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<blockquote data-quote="Willie Oleson" data-source="post: 441104" data-attributes="member: 8">It&#039;s possible that this part of the plot went over my head.I love everything Empire Valley except for the horrible miscast of the actor who plays Greg&#039;s (or was it Gary&#039;s?) former professor. Why couldn&#039;t that be the guy who always plays the Russian ambassador type in Hotel and Murder She Wrote series? I don&#039;t remember his name but you know who it is.Yes, great stuff. The bombing scene looks kinda cartoonishly surreal, something that would normally happen in a character&#039;s dream.Perhaps that&#039;s what Dynasty did with Moldavia (which was completely irrelevant to the Denver saga) - they shot it out of existence, just like Pam dreamt Bobby&#039;s death out of existence. Call it jump-the-shark or an opportunity to reboot the soap (the only time &quot;reboot&quot; means exactly that).But whereas post-Moldavia still dealt with the surviving Moldavians - and not in a very satisfactory way - the unfortunate results of the EV bombing became a storyline of itself without the slightly embarrassing connection of why it was bombed in the first place.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Willie Oleson, post: 441104, member: 8"] It's possible that this part of the plot went over my head. I love everything Empire Valley except for the horrible miscast of the actor who plays Greg's (or was it Gary's?) former professor. Why couldn't that be the guy who always plays the Russian ambassador type in Hotel and Murder She Wrote series? I don't remember his name but you know who it is. Yes, great stuff. The bombing scene looks kinda cartoonishly surreal, something that would normally happen in a character's dream. Perhaps that's what Dynasty did with Moldavia (which was completely irrelevant to the Denver saga) - they shot it out of existence, just like Pam dreamt Bobby's death out of existence. Call it jump-the-shark [I]or[/I] an opportunity to reboot the soap (the only time "reboot" means exactly that). But whereas post-Moldavia still dealt with the surviving Moldavians - and not in a very satisfactory way - the unfortunate results of the EV bombing became a storyline of itself without the slightly embarrassing connection of why it was bombed in the first place. [/QUOTE]

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