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<blockquote data-quote="Snarky Oracle!" data-source="post: 289250" data-attributes="member: 57984">Despite Esther Shapiro and Doug Cramer praising the Pollocks all over the place for being &quot;brilliant,&quot; the series&#039; head constructionists seemed to be much of the problem, barely able to contain their contempt for Krystle and indeed Linda Evans.When they had to retool Season 6 midway through, Evans had to miss a meeting with the producers because of a Clairol commercial she was contracted to shoot in France, so the Pollocks (whose misguided scripting had created the problem in the first case) sneered about her in the press that &quot;some people think of DYNASTY as a part time job.&quot;The utter gall. (To be fair, they also tried to suggest that Joan missing one episode 6 months earlier had somehow thrown off the trajectory of the plots irreparably.)Then, when Linda asked them to make Krystle a little stronger and to let her do the kinds of things she did in her Outback-based TV movie THE LAST FRONTEIR, they told her no, that Krystle needed to be kept as the unthreatening simp she was. Yet, around the same time, Eileen &quot;Mike&quot; Pollock says about Krystle in the press that &quot;I think Krystle&#039;s boring&quot; and added that Evans &quot;is a tigress about how she wants to play Krystle,&quot; implying that that&#039;s why Krystle is boring --- because Linda doesn&#039;t want Blake or Krystle to cheat on each other?? Apparently so).Then they have Alexis telling Krystle how &quot;boring&quot; she is in the foyer of the mansion, the Pollocks clearly speaking their dismissive opinions through Joan&#039;s mouth... Do we really want Alexis&#039; subjective and self-serving perspective of the other characters shared by the programs key writers?Linda Evans is, as we know, not the most confident actress in the world, but she can be very good when she believes the scripts and her own dialogue, which is no doubt why her performance changed so pointedly as the show progressed (although that sudden shift in Season 3 is much less evident to me than it once was). In the later seasons, her delivery became much more airy and superficial, other industry observers (like HILL STREET BLUES producer Steven Bochco) said public things like Evans &quot;can&#039;t act her way out of a paper bag,&quot; and she also stopped appearing in various Top 10 lists while Joan continued to do so. Even with the upturn in writing in Season 9, Linda still seemed to be on automatic, no longer sure of how to play Krystle from the heart.The static acting directive from roughly Season 3 onward didn&#039;t help anybody&#039;s performance (and it drove Leann Hunley away in 1988, who spilled the beans on S.A.D. as she exited) but no one&#039;s acting was more affected by it as eventually manifest in Evans&#039; interpretation of Krystle Carrington, the series&#039; golden queen.It should be noted that in projects away from DYNASTY, Linda was able to relax and express her lines convincingly once again.[ATTACH=full]29803[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Snarky Oracle!, post: 289250, member: 57984"] Despite Esther Shapiro and Doug Cramer praising the Pollocks all over the place for being "brilliant," the series' head constructionists seemed to be much of the problem, barely able to contain their contempt for Krystle and indeed Linda Evans. When they had to retool Season 6 midway through, Evans had to miss a meeting with the producers because of a Clairol commercial she was contracted to shoot in France, so the Pollocks (whose misguided scripting had created the problem in the first case) sneered about her in the press that "some people think of DYNASTY as a part time job." The utter gall. (To be fair, they also tried to suggest that Joan missing one episode 6 months earlier had somehow thrown off the trajectory of the plots irreparably.) Then, when Linda asked them to make Krystle a little stronger and to let her do the kinds of things she did in her Outback-based TV movie THE LAST FRONTEIR, they told her no, that Krystle needed to be kept as the unthreatening simp she was. Yet, around the same time, Eileen "Mike" Pollock says about Krystle in the press that "I think Krystle's boring" and added that Evans "is a tigress about how she wants to play Krystle," implying that that's[B] why[/B] Krystle is boring --- because Linda doesn't want Blake or Krystle to cheat on each other?? Apparently so). Then they have Alexis telling Krystle how "boring" she is in the foyer of the mansion, the Pollocks clearly speaking their dismissive opinions through Joan's mouth... Do we really want Alexis' subjective and self-serving perspective of the other characters shared by the programs key writers? Linda Evans is, as we know, not the most confident actress in the world, but she can be very good when she believes the scripts and her own dialogue, which is no doubt why her performance changed so pointedly as the show progressed (although that sudden shift in Season 3 is much less evident to me than it once was). In the later seasons, her delivery became much more airy and superficial, other industry observers (like HILL STREET BLUES producer Steven Bochco) said public things like Evans "can't act her way out of a paper bag," and she also stopped appearing in various Top 10 lists while Joan continued to do so. Even with the upturn in writing in Season 9, Linda still seemed to be on automatic, no longer sure of how to play Krystle from the heart. The static acting directive from roughly Season 3 onward didn't help anybody's performance (and it drove Leann Hunley away in 1988, who spilled the beans on S.A.D. as she exited) but no one's acting was more affected by it as eventually manifest in Evans' interpretation of Krystle Carrington, the series' golden queen. It should be noted that in projects away from DYNASTY, Linda was able to relax and express her lines convincingly once again. [ATTACH type="full" alt="lindaevansinfrance1986.jpg"]29803[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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