Esther Shapiro and Sallie Patrick throws SHADE at TNTDallas

Of course I don't know how the writers intended it to be (do we ever know for sure?), I just put it the way I saw it happen on screen.
But my view is not more "right" than yours.

But it was related to his methane energy, and the fuel service contract with the DCT. It wasn't car racing just for the fun of it.

 

All they had to do was fire Cidre. Or have a competition where the viewers win a chance to set her on fire.
What bugs me is that after that execs will forever say "well, we tried the revival and it didn't work," not "we hired people who had no clue and, amazingly, it tanked."

 

I had seen him on FX's "Over There" before anything else, and he was dynamite.

 

I completely agree. Then again, in theory the Shapiros are also involved.

I think she made it a point not to. She did not care for the genre, period. She wanted to do her own show, with the drug cartel and what not. She put together what was necessary for the show to be greenlit, like the Ewing and Barnes names, some core characters, and then she proceeded to Frankenstein the hell out of it.

 

Right. In most cases there was a way to get "here" from "there" if only they'd laid a bit of groundwork.

Good point.

 

If a Dynasty prequel was set in the 50's at least we the viewer could suspend belief that an upper class existed. The problem today is those reality shows (especially those Housewives of whatever) have destroyed any distinction of class. They believe their classy but just trailer trash. It's the same feeling I've been getting from those CW Dynasty trailers. I thought we were meant to believe this was the 1% of the 1% mega rich people.

 

And that would have been a story to watch. The mind boggles how it would have played out between Christopher and Lucas.