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Why has Grey's Anatomy succeeded where 80s soaps failed?
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<blockquote data-quote="Spooky Owl!" data-source="post: 72820" data-attributes="member: 57984"><p>Both shows rose and fell so similarly. But I find DYNASTY more painful because it had the most potential. FC got too campy later on, while DYNASTY's camp seemed somehow unintentional -- even if it wasn't!</p><p></p><p></p><p>And that's as good as it gets. As you may have heard, a writer-producer named Robert McCullough guided the first three seasons of FC and turned the show into a hit -- and then some Lorimar executive fired him for some reason. To me, the show never recovered.</p><p></p><p>People say FC had the least identity of the four shows, but I don't agree that that was true during the first three seasons. Afterwards, it indeed lacked an kind of center, just throwing "crazy" things out there which mostly didn't work.</p><p></p><p>I've said before that FALCON CREST was the show I cared least about, but felt strangely closest to. Something about the comparatively organic, harvest-y flavor it had in the early years, and those elaborate man caves set back against the mountains. I dunno. I wish they hadn't ruined it.</p><p></p><p>It's just like these shows started trying to "fake it" midway through. (Except for KNOTS, naturally).</p><p></p><p><img src="https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/8e/c3/bd/8ec3bdea806c3b990170c2836263f9c7.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> </p><p><img src="http://johnstewartgallery.weebly.com/uploads/1/0/7/7/10772205/7637574_orig.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Spooky Owl!, post: 72820, member: 57984"] Both shows rose and fell so similarly. But I find DYNASTY more painful because it had the most potential. FC got too campy later on, while DYNASTY's camp seemed somehow unintentional -- even if it wasn't! And that's as good as it gets. As you may have heard, a writer-producer named Robert McCullough guided the first three seasons of FC and turned the show into a hit -- and then some Lorimar executive fired him for some reason. To me, the show never recovered. People say FC had the least identity of the four shows, but I don't agree that that was true during the first three seasons. Afterwards, it indeed lacked an kind of center, just throwing "crazy" things out there which mostly didn't work. I've said before that FALCON CREST was the show I cared least about, but felt strangely closest to. Something about the comparatively organic, harvest-y flavor it had in the early years, and those elaborate man caves set back against the mountains. I dunno. I wish they hadn't ruined it. It's just like these shows started trying to "fake it" midway through. (Except for KNOTS, naturally). [IMG]https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/8e/c3/bd/8ec3bdea806c3b990170c2836263f9c7.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://johnstewartgallery.weebly.com/uploads/1/0/7/7/10772205/7637574_orig.jpg[/IMG] [/QUOTE]
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