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<blockquote data-quote="Mustard" data-source="post: 420099" data-attributes="member: 46">Basically what happened from Seasons 4-7 in particular, where any independent creativity by the actors was seemingly stamped out. On Dynasty, for whatever reason, the brass seemed to get suspicious of the actors themselves, perhaps because of what happened with Al Corley and Pamela Sue Martin. Corley was basically saying that Steven&#039;s trajectory in Season 2 was not what he had been told originally, that Steven had &quot;no fun&quot;, so he wanted out. PSM started feeling similar about Fallon in Season 4, openly voicing that she was not enjoying the role any more, and that she wanted out. John James tried to persuade her to stay, but to no avail.The brass then seemed to act like &quot;Okay, you do as we tell you. Or else! Any of you actors can be replaced easily&quot;.On Dallas, even before &quot;Who Shot J.R.?&quot; when Larry Hagman took the brass on, I don&#039;t think the brass were ever that suspicious of the actors. There was definitely a lot more control freakery going on with the Dynasty brass. Maybe what Hagman did in 1980 with CBS, which would have been around the time that Dynasty was just starting recording with ABC, might have spooked the Dynasty brass into not wanting that on their set. Remember also that George Peppard was cast as Blake Carrington originally, and that Peppard actually recorded two thirds of Oil, before he was fired, and replaced with John Forsythe, with all the scenes that Peppard had done being reshot with Forsythe.Blake Carrington in Season 1 of Dynasty is a bigger villain than any of the Ewings ever were on Dallas. That was toned down a lot afterwards. In Season 2, there was a pretty big cat fight between Krystle and Alexis in Alexis&#039; studio, where Krystle beat Alexis up. I doubt that such a scene would have ever happened by Seasons 4-7, being considered &quot;unbecoming&quot; of &quot;good girl&quot; Krystle.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mustard, post: 420099, member: 46"] Basically what happened from Seasons 4-7 in particular, where any independent creativity by the actors was seemingly stamped out. On Dynasty, for whatever reason, the brass seemed to get suspicious of the actors themselves, perhaps because of what happened with Al Corley and Pamela Sue Martin. Corley was basically saying that Steven's trajectory in Season 2 was not what he had been told originally, that Steven had "no fun", so he wanted out. PSM started feeling similar about Fallon in Season 4, openly voicing that she was not enjoying the role any more, and that she wanted out. John James tried to persuade her to stay, but to no avail. The brass then seemed to act like "Okay, you do as we tell you. Or else! Any of you actors can be replaced easily". On Dallas, even before "Who Shot J.R.?" when Larry Hagman took the brass on, I don't think the brass were ever that suspicious of the actors. There was definitely a lot more control freakery going on with the Dynasty brass. Maybe what Hagman did in 1980 with CBS, which would have been around the time that Dynasty was just starting recording with ABC, might have spooked the Dynasty brass into not wanting that on their set. Remember also that George Peppard was cast as Blake Carrington originally, and that Peppard actually recorded two thirds of Oil, before he was fired, and replaced with John Forsythe, with all the scenes that Peppard had done being reshot with Forsythe. Blake Carrington in Season 1 of Dynasty is a bigger villain than any of the Ewings ever were on Dallas. That was toned down a lot afterwards. In Season 2, there was a pretty big cat fight between Krystle and Alexis in Alexis' studio, where Krystle beat Alexis up. I doubt that such a scene would have ever happened by Seasons 4-7, being considered "unbecoming" of "good girl" Krystle. [/QUOTE]

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