Tyne Daly as Claudia Blaisdel

[Willie Oleson]

Just because a brunette Brit was popular on one soap doesn’t translate to hey let’s create a bitchy brunette Brit on our show, people will tune in for her, no you cannot recreate what JC brought.

They didn't have to "create" a character. Richard Channing needed an assistant and Diana had chosen the cartel.
The kick-ass/bitchy type could also have been derived from her role in the blockbuster hit Superman.

Same as Tom Selleck , let’s cast someone with a mustache who kind of sort of looks like Magnum PI

The moustache was not uncommon in the early 80s. "Tom Selleck was not available" is just another myth created on forums like these.

Fallon was promiscuous because she was bored

No, she did it to provoke her father. And she was bored because none of those men were Blake Carrington.

she wanted the power and control of her father’s company and he said no

She said her father wouldn't allow women in the boardroom. She's never made a big point about a career at DC and she'd rather have Steven take over if that would make her father happy. That's what made Fallon tick, hence the deal with Cecil Colby.

Having her “fall in love” with Nick Toscanini was the beginning of the end of her character.

I guess the point was that Nick Toscanni wasn't Jeff Colby.

It's amazing to see how much of Dynasty is being misinterpreted just to have the opportunity to complain.

 

[Lankershim Blasdel 1]

hence the deal with Cecil Colby.

That was only to keep her father from losing his company. She only loved her father and brother and the rest of the world didn’t matter

I guess the point was that Nick Toscanni wasn't Jeff Colby.

she didn’t give a crap about Jeff, Nick was a distraction until they wrote how she was desperately in love with him, but why? After an initial attraction he treated her like crap and that was something Fallon wouldn’t stand for in season 1 and the beginning of 2. The show became too soapy at that point. If they only kept Fallon like her season 2 incarnation into season 3 but they didn’t. It’s obvious that something intentional was done to deconstruct the character on purpose and then by the middle to end of the season she has absolutely nothing to do and no storyline of her own. The season 3 bible has Fallon doing a lot but they changed most of it, now I’m assuming the Pollock’s wrote
that season 3 bible then who decided to start making her a dishrag? I believe it was intentionally done by Esther Shapiro after Pamela Sue said no to that Miami hotel spin off( which was a bad idea anyway )
It can be said that Alexis made Fallon redundant as a bitch but she really wasn’t like her mother, she was opinionated and outspoken, worldly and knew the business but wasn’t vile like Alexis so why dilute her because Joan blew up???

 

[Lankershim Blasdel 1]

The kick-ass/bitchy type could also have been derived from her role in the blockbuster hit Superman.

Pamela Lynch as a character was created on the hype of the bitchy brunette British bitch on Dynasty but with a less attractive and compelling actress
Even Dallas joined that later on with fashionista Angelica Nero (a foreign bitch just not British who didn’t belong at all in the Dallas universe)
Geoffrey Scott was only hired because of the Tom Selleck popularity when they should have hired someone who would have been a realistic match

 

[Snarky Oracle!]

It's amazing to see how much of Dynasty is being misinterpreted just to have the opportunity to complain.

We'll defer to your judgment from now on.

Pamela Lynch as a character was created on the hype of the bitchy brunette British bitch on Dynasty but with a less attractive and compelling actress

She was not a "less compelling actress" than Joan.

 

[Lankershim Blasdel 1]

She was not a "less compelling actress" than Joan.

Maybe not but she wasn’t as beautiful,

 

[Svengali]

Maybe not but she wasn’t as beautiful,

beautiful doesn't mean talented , I love Joan Collins and what she brought but her acting is very questionable

 

[Snarky Oracle!]

beautiful doesn't mean talented , I love Joan Collins and what she brought but her acting is very questionable

Yes, although I'm always able to rationalize any baddish acting Joan does as Alexis manipulating transparently. So it kind of works.

 

[GillesDenver]

The season 3 bible has Fallon doing a lot but they changed most of it, now I’m assuming the Pollock’s wrote
that season 3 bible then who decided to start making her a dishrag? I believe it was intentionally done by Esther Shapiro after Pamela Sue said no to that Miami hotel spin off( which was a bad idea anyway )
It can be said that Alexis made Fallon redundant as a bitch but she really wasn’t like her mother, she was opinionated and outspoken, worldly and knew the business but wasn’t vile like Alexis so why dilute her because Joan blew up???

Or maybe they changed the character in order to fit the spin-off that eventually never materialized ? In any case, I agree with you that Fallon's change of personality was more likely an idea of Esther Shapiro than the Pollocks who seemed to enjoy to write her as a troublemaker.

 

[Lankershim Blasdel 1]

Esther Shapiro was/ is a fat cow hack, I’m Alexis Carrington!! Sure if Alexis Carrington was a morbidly obese Roseanne lookalike
She ruined such a unique character and series, I have a feeling the origin of the show was mostly her husband’s vision.
She then continued to money grab one last time with that awful CW BS. Total spin bs doctor when the show was on in the 80’s,
Season 3 was no time to think about spin offs when your show was deteriorating, it ran mostly on season 2 steam even though you could clearly see the decline in quality.
I think Richard just gave up and let her do her thing since she was so overbearing,

 

[Willie Oleson]

We'll defer to your judgment from now on.

Please do.

Pamela Lynch as a character was created on the hype of the bitchy brunette British bitch on Dynasty but with a less attractive and compelling actress

Dallas had had plenty of female trouble before Alexis arrived on the scene, but I guess it's true that Alexis was the first female antagonist in a leading role.
And here we have the difference with Pamela Lynch: she wasn't going to be that character. Richard Channing needed a very noticeable henchwoman and this was already in the DNA of Falcon Crest before Sarah Douglas joined the cast.
So, again, your comparison doesn't make sense.

Even Dallas joined that later on with fashionista Angelica Nero (a foreign bitch just not British who didn’t belong at all in the Dallas universe)

Oh, but maybe - and I know this is a stretch...

 

[Lankershim Blasdel 1]

Dallas had had plenty of female trouble before Alexis arrived on the scene,

Mary Crosby in my opinion as Kristen was phenomenal, that smirk, she really thought JR was going to marry her.. She was sort of a Sammy Jo but with a bit of a brain

 

[Lankershim Blasdel 1]

Richard Channing needed a very noticeable henchwoman and this was already in the DNA of Falcon Crest before Sarah Douglas joined the cast.

I agree but I don’t think it was the least bit coincidental that they chose to cast a brunette Brit with the same short hair style Alexis was sporting in 1983 for the bitch role

 

[Snarky Oracle!]

Mary Crosby in my opinion as Kristen was phenomenal, that smirk, she really thought JR was going to marry her.. She was sort of a Sammy Jo but with a bit of a brain

Alexis, Sammy Jo, Kristen, Melissa Agretti --- oh, the unsubtle villainy of these Aries Risings (including Mama with that leg of frozen lamb).

 

[Lankershim Blasdel 1]

Kristen was more subtle in her schemes than the rest of those ladies
I’ve only seen Kristen drink white wine
Maybe that’s all she does drink …. around you.

 

[Lankershim Blasdel 1]

Fallon's change of personality was more likely an idea of Esther Shapiro than the Pollocks who seemed to enjoy to write her as a troublemaker.

So Al Corley and Pamela Sue left the show because of the writing that was deteriorating their characters. That was the fault of Aaron Spelling for bending to the network and Esther Shapiro out of spite or wanting the character to be different for a spin off, they sabotaged their own show thinking the audience only cared about John Linda and Joan.
So what about Catherine Oxenberg , the actress who didn’t show up for work and pretended she wasn’t home when they went knocking.
Didn’t Aaron Spelling and ABC have enough power to quickly look for a perfect replacement for Amanda 2, couldn’t they spend the money and resources to see who was up and coming in England and even South Africa, they had to have had access to casting agents all over the world and get an actress who was better than Oxenberg. They could have still shot Amanda’s scenes in the first episode and shot from behind or had her face in bandages before they cast a gorgeous young British (Grace Kelly) type. Why just throw together such a bad mistake, did they just not care after season 6
They could have stirred up a lot of publicity revealing their incredible find
Al and Pamela were irreplaceable and their characters never should have been recast, especially with bad daytime
Amanda really didn’t have much of a personality and while I don’t think Catherine should have been replaced they really didn’t seem to have a choice

 

[GillesDenver]

Catherine Oxenberg was fired a few days before the filming of season 7 started. It was impossible to send agents all over the world to find a replacement. There was no time either to negociate with agents to get a famous actress. The producers needed someone immediately avalaible.

 

[Snarky Oracle!]

Catherine Oxenberg was fired a few days before the filming of season 7 started. It was impossible to send agents all over the world to find a replacement. There was no time either to negociate with agents to get a famous actress. The producers needed someone immediately avalaible.

Or just write her out pronto. Heaven forbid some DYNASTY writer-producer stay up late one weekend to fix it.

I mean, they had three months to come up with a resolution to the Moldavian massacre and look how that turned out. Two years to write THE REUNION, and was precisely the mess one expected.

As Gordon Thomson proclaimed, "that's some lazy shyte...!"

 

[Lankershim Blasdel 1]

Or the producers could have told her people they planned on suing their client into bankruptcy if she didn’t report to the studio ready to film, didn’t she not show up for wardrobe fittings before they were scheduled to resume filming, it didn’t set off any warning signs for these people.
Or yes write off the character pronto and put a little effort in it
Rewatching Karen Cellini, she was just awful but no worse than Emma or Jack
They didn’t even try, Emma tried but failed miserably to hide her accent and talk “American” because she wasn’t a very good actor at all, but they tried, they didn’t say just say your lines with your British accent, but Karen they didn’t bother at all . Amanda was British, this resolution was the cheapest obviously than re writes or spending the money to find someone else.
Jack was stiff and angry , the total opposite of Steven.
Al and Pamela didn’t try to strong arm the show they just wanted out , Catherine thought she had Joan Collins power
She never did anything ever again, she had to capitalize on her kid being in a sex cult decades later to make some cash

 

[GillesDenver]

Or just write her out pronto. Heaven forbid some DYNASTY writer-producer stay up late one weekend to fix it.

That was not possible either because several scripts were already written, as well as a dozen of story outlines.

The only possibilty would have been to exchange Amanda's scenes with another character. And Jackie would have been the most obvious choice for that.

 

[Lankershim Blasdel 1]

Even if they switched stories for Jackie and “Amanda” there still would have been rewrites to the scripts already written.
Wasn’t jet setting glamorous photojournalist Lady Ashley Mitchell supposed to become Blake’s new lover whom he would divorce his wife for, but JF refused since he was really in love with Linda Evans and didn’t want any other actor to have her. Things change and I’m sure they had to adjust, maybe not with the time crunch but things had to be redirected thanks to John being weird.
They could have re written the few scripts that had finished for early season 7, Money talks and can fix those problems, they were shit anyway.Amanda dies in the fire,

Men travel to the ends of the world for what I have to offer, oh scrap that never mind