I would definitely change the actor to someone charming and sexy and I would have Fallon become addicted to coke. Considering the amount of cocaine done in the 80's, especially by the rich, it seems ridiculous that none of the primetime soaps ever had a main character that got into it. It was only ever a sleazy secondary character who was bad news, wasn't around for long and ended up dead. It would have been far more interesting than the story lines Fallon had that season.

 

I would have loved to see Fallon not becoming a victim again.
Why couldn't she use him while he thought he was using her?

A tale with an unexpected twist would have been nice (he was trampled to death by the horse, or something like that)

I don't think Count Pierre was more interesting than De Vilbis.

 

No, but he was loads better-looking and had more charm.

Ooh, nice! I like that.

 

Oh wait, Alexis would suggest that it was murder, not an accident - and that Krystle's precious horse is in fact an evil, dangerous animal that has to be killed.

And they had already done that on Little House On The Prairie.

Unless the horse would be officially charged with murder, then they could take it to court.

 

Sounds plausible. I imagine that just as the jury is about deliver it's verdict some shocking evidence is admitted that turns everything on its head. Cctv footage showing it was actually Alexis in a horse costume that trampled him to death.

*sigh* Why couldn't they have had this kind of quality writing on the show? I mean, c'mon, it's not that hard. if I could do it anyone can.

 

Or was Alexis the horse's jealous ex-lover? We know how much she likes the studs.

 

Quite likely. I would have liked to have seen Blake fight back with some footage of this after Alexis tries to sabotage his campaign for governor with the whorehouse footage.

 

Thank God Clinton and Trump had more style and class, otherwise it would have looked very ugly.

 

Shame that none of these events seem obscure anymore.
Everything and everyone can be traced, one way or another. Many crimes end up (accidentally or not) on people's cellphones.

But it was so eerie and Twin Peaks-esque when they spotted Danny Waleska in Gary Ewing's happy family video.

I think Dynasty could use another character with a slightly "gritty" look, like Nick Toscanni, and Matthew Blaisdel before him.
Not everyone has to be pwetty & shine-y.

Agree, they could have played that to the hilt.
And yet there's something about his blasé performance that just makes sense for that character, even if it wasn't always entertaining to watch.

Lame!

 

I didn't mind the fact that Fallon was being duped by some Eurotrashy sleazebag, after all it was karmatic justice after the way she used and abused men for years by this point, by like alot of things in season 4 it was how it executed, at least TPTB understood that Pee Wee wasn't working in the series and wrote him out,
Helmut Berger was good in the role because he did have that worn out, sleazy, "I slept my way through every guy and girl in Europe in the 60s and 70s" look about him.

 

I don't think "Fallon" (as we used to know her) would be very impressed by a glossy, seductively attractive man - been there done that, during her globetrotting days.
The chauffeur, the older psychiatrist, Jeff's uncle - those men were interesting (for various reasons, as long as they weren't perfect or, preferably, totally unsuitable).
Whatever it was that didn't work in season 4, I think it was mostly Fallon's perception of PDV, and not the casting of that character.
Or vice versa.

The funny thing is, given Berger's attitude while filming in America, that it almost looks as if the character was written for him. They were basically the same person.
Whether that's good or bad depends on who you ask, I guess.

Would "we" have liked him better if it had been filmed 15 years earlier?

Because he really was a very, very handsome man.

 

Well, as has been pointed out before, they'd often hire actors who were well past their prime yet they still continued to write them as if they still were in their heydays. Helmut might've worked if they amped up the sleaze factor and acknowledged that he was past it and possibly desperate to land/scam rich heiress Fallon.

 

At the risk of going all SciNasty here, how about De Vilbes is a washed up magician, who fled Europe in the early 70s after a trick of his went terribly wrong, the trick happened to involve a wealthy benefactor from a prominent European or Arabian aristocratic family and he conveniently inherits said benefactors fortune, except by the time we see him in Denver in 1983, he's nearly penniless, just living a life of a "poor aristocrat" living off others and doing occasional miracles, he has a small cult which is a phony group, he tries to expand on Fallon's telepathy which is exacerbated when she's hit by the car, which causes her headaches, because her telepathy has opened up her empathetic skills as she feels the woes of Colorado and causes her to flee, and now folks we have the real reason as to why Fallon became amnesiac.

 

Peter (obviously different actor) could have been the son of one of the heads of the Consortium who was suppose to infiltrate the Carrington/Colby Denver oil companies

 

He's one year older than Michael Nader, and two years younger than Linda Evans.
Many of Dynasty's core cast members were no spring chickens anymore, and special guest stars were obviously cast for their name & fame value.

But don't fear, the CW Dynasty cast is younger