Season 8

[Ked]

The script (even corrected by Paulsen) actually ended with the scene between Jeff, Fallon and Sammy Jo ! (But Sammy Jo was on the phone rather than at the apartment.)

Oh Jeff, that world-class jackass.

 

[Toni]

The script (even corrected by Paulsen) actually ended with the scene between Jeff, Fallon and Sammy Jo ! (But Sammy Jo was on the phone rather than at the apartment.)

Did I read that Jeff "tightens a**"???!!!!

 

[Tony]

Didn’t David Paulsen say in his interview with James from London he wanted Season 8 to end with Pamela Sue Martin in bed as Fallon? Rather like Bobby returning in the shower. Maybe not the end scene but it would have been one hell of a cliffhanger.

 

[GillesDenver]

Didn’t David Paulsen say in his interview with James from London he wanted Season 8 to end with Pamela Sue Martin in bed as Fallon? Rather like Bobby returning in the shower. Maybe not the end scene but it would have been one hell of a cliffhanger.

Not in the cliffhanger, rather in the first scene of season 9.

 

[Zara]

Maybe this season is underrated.

We got to see something a bit more realistic and the not so absurd drama in comparison to seasons before. Politics, and the open fight between Alexis and Blake over something else than the stuff Alexis thrived on to bring up.

Season one and two have a more political aura and when Fallon, Steven and Jeff, and Matthew in his way, touches the subject in that social realism-way from their view, it's hard not to love when getting to know the Denver Clan.

Combined with, in 8, the "politics" around a surrogate-birth and the entanglement it can create.

 

[Jimmy Todd]

They should have had some specific political issue on which Blake and Alexis were on opposing sides. The kind of of issue on which all the characters had a strong opinion and carried through the whole season.

 

[Ked]

They should have had some specific political issue on which Blake and Alexis were on opposing sides. The kind of of issue on which all the characters had a strong opinion and carried through the whole season.

Like what?

 

[Snarky Oracle!]

They should have had some specific political issue on which Blake and Alexis were on opposing sides. The kind of of issue on which all the characters had a strong opinion and carried through the whole season.

And that was yet another perversity of the show -- DYNASTY finally did a year-long story arc for the first time in forever, and then they're not allowed to discuss anything!

"Liberal" Hollywood, post-the advent of Reagan, found politics difficult to discuss comfortably -- even in fiction. Some films tried, but it was nervously frowned upon. And, certainly, a series as poorly-written as (most of) DYNASTY, and produced by pimps, was not going rise to the occasion.

So they did nothing. No political issue could be debated. At all. Only what bitches and bastards the two were. For an entire year.

DYNASTY was largely an 'all-dressed-up-and-no-place-to-go' type of program already, but the Season 8 gubernatorial campaign plot, with so much potential, lasting the entire season with absolutely no details whatsoever, was the ne plus ultra of the fervent pointlessness that was The Carrington Saga.

Much ado about nothing -- I'm afraid that was DYNASTY in a decaying Pignolia nutshell..

Like what?

Almost anything!

 

[Jimmy Todd]

Responding to @Ked , it didn't have to be a contentious or emotionally charged issue that would divide audiences such as abortion. It could be an oil pipeline issue that could wreak havoc on the environment but also provide much needed jobs. Blake could support it and could argue to those opposed(Stephen, Krystle, maybe Fallon) that it's easy for them because they are because of his work and for projects like this so it doesn't affect them financially. Alexis would oppose it, not because she gives a feather or a fig about the environment, but she sees an opportunity to challenge Blake and make herself look more caring and thoughtful. It would also.put her and Krystle on the same side of an issue, and there would be interesting dynamics throughout the season.
Unfortunately, as @Snarky Oracle! said, that kind of writing was just not what anyone on Dynasty was interested in doing.

 

[rayray]

And that was yet another perversity of the show -- DYNASTY finally did a year-long story arc for the first time in forever, and then they're not allowed to discuss anything!

"Liberal" Hollywood, post-the advent of Reagan, found politics difficult to discuss comfortably -- even in fiction. Some films tried, but it was nervously frowned upon. And, certainly, a series as poorly-written as (most of) DYNASTY, and produced by pimps, was not going rise to the occasion.

So they did nothing. No political issue could be debated. At all. Only what bitches and bastards the two were. For an entire year.

DYNASTY was largely an 'all-dressed-up-and-no-place-to-go' type of program already, but the Season 8 gubernatorial campaign plot, with so much potential, lasting the entire season with absolutely no details whatsoever, was the ne plus ultra of the fervent pointlessness that was The Carrington Saga.

Much ado about nothing -- I'm afraid that was DYNASTY in a decaying Pignolia nutshell..




Almost anything!

Given that the show's previous "attempts" (in profoundly inverted commas) to deal with controversial topics like rape (Krystle, Fallon) and racism + mixed race parentage (Dominique), where they bungled each in ways that were patently ridiculous back then, it wasn't surprising AT ALL that they had two central characters opposing each other in a political race without identifying a single substantive issue where they differed. Instead they debated The Environment! Women and Stuff! They wouldn't even identify a fictional party either belonged to. I was amazed at the time that they couldn't invent a fictional political party for each, the way they would routinely invent African or Latin American country names.