I'll never get over Linda Evan's eyes. That grey/blue, like the sky before a storm. I knew a young woman, a friend of sorts, who had eyes like those, blonde, beautiful, the men all said she was a Goddess!
48 room house, indeed! Blake, you wouldn't have had financial difficulties if you lived in a 16 room mansion instead. And had ONE cook, ONE maid, and ONE gardener.
By today's standards the pace of the teleplay in Dynasty seems very slow, but I actually really love that slowness of pace and that Peyton Place and Days of Our Lives'esque scripting and rhythm - the silences between the dialogue and the sweeping instrumental soundtrack over the top. There is something comforting about that genre of entertainment which only soap operas like Dynasty offered to the viewer. The mid-century soap invented "slow TV" way before the idea became fashionable decades later with "slow fashion, slow cooking and slow lifestyles." Time stands still when you watch a soap like Dynasty because the weekly format (in this case over 9 years) collapses time through its sheer scale. That's why soaps are addictive. The equatorial and long drawn out plots each week meant that viewers went on a journey with the characters and had the time to unravel their emotions and feelings as they were worked through each week, almost like a kind of gestalt therapy or psychotherapeutic catharsis. Dynasty was kind of like going to the shrink each week: only it was less expensive! I think of my grandmother who was addicted to various soaps through those 60s, 70s and 80s decades and it was her way of gaining her own agency, via these characters. Soaps had an educative and instructional quality for the masses. Newer formats (like reality tv) have a very different pace and feel, and lack the ability to show the arc of tenderness and the development of an emotional narrative between characters. That's something the soap genre does very well and Dynasty was the last of the the great soaps on television before being buried by all sorts of "reality" tv programming, including all sorts of "real life" news shows and other gritty formats in the early to mid-90s until the advent of reality programming which continues relentlessly and tiringly to this day. In the soap genre, it appears very unrealistic and hugely fantastical but in fact the largely female (and gay) audiences were able to work out the importance of soft power which made them largely invisible in the real world but in the soap world, their power counted because the soap world values soft power, aesthetics, beauty and the agency of art and artifice. The soap world is a galaxy of emotion, of relationships, of sex and sexuality of family and social bonds. Women (and in Dynasty often mature women) were at the heart of these stories. If you watch through and beyond the lens of a soap like Dynasty there is more than meets the eye going on in each scene. For me, Dynasty is a lush postmodern electronic tapestry in the line of the great French, Italian, Flemish and Dutch silk tapestry masters of the 18th century. Even the title theme has a Baroque overture. Each scene is staged beautifully, framed perfectly, considered and crafted shot by shot. No different to how a painter "frames" and crops his subjects. The colours, fabrics, characters and atmospheres are richly woven and given relief by the magic of Spelling's colour technology, lighting, sound scoring, editing, costuming and cinematographic camera work and production values. Anyone who thinks modern mid--to-late- century TV is pure trash doesn't understand that all art is continuous and that even though it seems like a consumer good, a show like Dynasty is actually a work of art because it possesses the same ability to enthrall, inspire, engage and entertain as some of the greatest works of art in history. There is nothing "new" in culture, everything is revived and reworked constantly in art and literature and all works even of pop culture like "Dynasty" have a role to play in the representation of what it means to be human at any given time in history : the central values of family and dynastic lineage, the desire to love and be loved, the seeking of approval by society, the human egoic propensity for revenge, greed, lust and betrayal. In some of the scenes, particularly those starring Blake, Alexis and their children, the teleplay mirrors a certain Shakespearean Grandeur. Many of Alexis's soliloquies are Shakespearean in their language if you listen closely: her pithy, bitchy iambic pentameter spats and cat fights with Sable, whom she refers to in that Elizabethan way as "cousin" are pure Shakespeare and reminiscent of scenes in King Lear between the toxic sisters Regan and Goneril. Often Alexis assumes the tragic majesty of a Lady Macbeth. Krystle is the eternally suffering woman-child Cordelia and Blake, King Lear himself. In an age when no one reads the great novels or admires the great masters anymore it is comforting to know that somewhere, somehow in the future, even via 3 minute video bytes on you tube archives, future humans will still learn (or unlearn ) about the machinations of the human ego via a chef d'œuvre of art and artifice that once existed between 1981-1989 AD, called "Dynasty".
John Forsythe had the best voice in television! Such great timbre, tone, articulation and depth.
I'll never get over Linda Evan's eyes.
That grey/blue, like the sky before a storm.
I knew a young woman, a friend of sorts, who had eyes like those, blonde, beautiful, the men all said she was a Goddess!
Krystal was an amazing wife and mother! She truly loved Blake!
A wonderful personality also
That House and Furnishings and the Clothes -------------- Jewelry ---------- It's Un-- REAL !!!!!!!!!!! GORGEOUSNESS
48 room house, indeed! Blake, you wouldn't have had financial difficulties if you lived in a 16 room mansion instead. And had ONE cook, ONE maid, and ONE gardener.
By today's standards the pace of the teleplay in Dynasty seems very slow, but I actually really love that slowness of pace and that Peyton Place and Days of Our Lives'esque scripting and rhythm - the silences between the dialogue and the sweeping instrumental soundtrack over the top. There is something comforting about that genre of entertainment which only soap operas like Dynasty offered to the viewer. The mid-century soap invented "slow TV" way before the idea became fashionable decades later with "slow fashion, slow cooking and slow lifestyles." Time stands still when you watch a soap like Dynasty because the weekly format (in this case over 9 years) collapses time through its sheer scale. That's why soaps are addictive. The equatorial and long drawn out plots each week meant that viewers went on a journey with the characters and had the time to unravel their emotions and feelings as they were worked through each week, almost like a kind of gestalt therapy or psychotherapeutic catharsis. Dynasty was kind of like going to the shrink each week: only it was less expensive! I think of my grandmother who was addicted to various soaps through those 60s, 70s and 80s decades and it was her way of gaining her own agency, via these characters. Soaps had an educative and instructional quality for the masses. Newer formats (like reality tv) have a very different pace and feel, and lack the ability to show the arc of tenderness and the development of an emotional narrative between characters. That's something the soap genre does very well and Dynasty was the last of the the great soaps on television before being buried by all sorts of "reality" tv programming, including all sorts of "real life" news shows and other gritty formats in the early to mid-90s until the advent of reality programming which continues relentlessly and tiringly to this day. In the soap genre, it appears very unrealistic and hugely fantastical but in fact the largely female (and gay) audiences were able to work out the importance of soft power which made them largely invisible in the real world but in the soap world, their power counted because the soap world values soft power, aesthetics, beauty and the agency of art and artifice. The soap world is a galaxy of emotion, of relationships, of sex and sexuality of family and social bonds. Women (and in Dynasty often mature women) were at the heart of these stories. If you watch through and beyond the lens of a soap like Dynasty there is more than meets the eye going on in each scene.
For me, Dynasty is a lush postmodern electronic tapestry in the line of the great French, Italian, Flemish and Dutch silk tapestry masters of the 18th century. Even the title theme has a Baroque overture. Each scene is staged beautifully, framed perfectly, considered and crafted shot by shot. No different to how a painter "frames" and crops his subjects. The colours, fabrics, characters and atmospheres are richly woven and given relief by the magic of Spelling's colour technology, lighting, sound scoring, editing, costuming and cinematographic camera work and production values.
Anyone who thinks modern mid--to-late- century TV is pure trash doesn't understand that all art is continuous and that even though it seems like a consumer good, a show like Dynasty is actually a work of art because it possesses the same ability to enthrall, inspire, engage and entertain as some of the greatest works of art in history. There is nothing "new" in culture, everything is revived and reworked constantly in art and literature and all works even of pop culture like "Dynasty" have a role to play in the representation of what it means to be human at any given time in history : the central values of family and dynastic lineage, the desire to love and be loved, the seeking of approval by society, the human egoic propensity for revenge, greed, lust and betrayal.
In some of the scenes, particularly those starring Blake, Alexis and their children, the teleplay mirrors a certain Shakespearean Grandeur. Many of Alexis's soliloquies are Shakespearean in their language if you listen closely: her pithy, bitchy iambic pentameter spats and cat fights with Sable, whom she refers to in that Elizabethan way as "cousin" are pure Shakespeare and reminiscent of scenes in King Lear between the toxic sisters Regan and Goneril. Often Alexis assumes the tragic majesty of a Lady Macbeth. Krystle is the eternally suffering woman-child Cordelia and Blake, King Lear himself. In an age when no one reads the great novels or admires the great masters anymore it is comforting to know that somewhere, somehow in the future, even via 3 minute video bytes on you tube archives, future humans will still learn (or unlearn ) about the machinations of the human ego via a chef d'œuvre of art and artifice that once existed between 1981-1989 AD, called "Dynasty".
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krystal has some great shoulders
" .. Look Blake, I changed my outfit again .. and am carrying flowers" ..
Better high cheek bones...John Forsythe or Linda Evans?
very hard to decide
udhoop 😂😂😂😂😂 their so damm cute its sickening 💕💕💕💕💕💕☺️☺️☺️☺️😂😂😂
@@tanedasmith9370 I keep thinking about their kiss when Blake came back from Hong Kong, he ignored the reporters, eyes only on Krystle 😀 super cute
#teamlinda
@@ivyrivera8081 Linda Evans was so pretty. She really was.
Väldigt bra scen tycker jag krystle och Blake är vacker 😉😉😎😎😍😍😘😘
Blake never needed Viagra, that’s for sure😂😂😂
LOL
@Bobby Grant Blake was a Christian, not Jewish.
What a beauty Linda Evan's was.
How was Linda Evans able to fool the World?
I nean i love her but still
Väldigt vackert scen tycker båda är snygga 👄👄💋💋👊👊🍉🍉🍒🍒🍓🍓🍇🍇
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