Customer Reviews

Dynasty: Season Three, Vol. 2

5 star:		(21)
4 star:		(3)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(8)

 

 

I really don't care what price they put on each series but I do think most people/fans would like to have each season in its entirety. Die hard fans would easily sit down & watch an entire season over a weekend once they've brought it home from the shop. If you have a "set" that ends mid season!? well...thats not the way it was meant to be watched! Charge what you need to charge to make you profit but PLEASE put each season out in ONE box set! The manufacturers should try "channeling" Krystle more & not Alexis! Be good! Not evil!

I am still put off by having the seasons broken up in two but am glad that the wait for Volume 2 wasn't interminable. The picture quality is still excellent (much better than the faded and scratched "Dallas" transfers) and the episodes uncut.

Oddly, the third season of "Dynasty" found the show becoming a phenomenon to rival "Dallas" and yet I found I didn't enjoy it as much as the previous seasons. First of all, some of the compelling characters like Claudia and Al Corley as Steven aren't around much or at all and that's a disappointment. Pamela Bellwood's Claudia was so great and in Volume 2 she only appears once (thankfully, Claudia does come back in Season 4.) "Heroes" Jack Coleman assumes the role of Steven but seems stiff and uncomfortable connecting with his character. Other newcomers like Geoffrey Scott, Kathleen Beller and Gordon Thomson are a mixed bag. Thomson's Adam brings the melodrama and camp up a notch but Beller's Kirby flounders in a chemistry-free relationship with Jeff and Scott, brought in as Krystle's not so ex-husband, has a storyline that loses steam as the season progresses. I know I shouldn't compare to "Dallas' but I did like the fact that the cast of the latter show stayed intact as long as possible. "Dynasty" seems to change directions every season -not that it's a bad thing and hey, the ratings told the story.

And then there's Krystle and Alexis and the lily pond. As classic as this sequence is, I think it lacks the ferocity of the original studio battle which was the culmination of months and months of tension. The lily pond was just an excuse to have them fight again after a brief argument.

Does my critique mean I will be staying away from Season 4? Heck no. I say bring on more drama because now I'm hooked. I just hope the wait isn't too long.

Please hurry with season 4-9. This is taking too long to be put on DVD. Dallas series is already on its 9th season out. Come on Dynasty fans and lets get the ball rolling! We need more of this 80's drama on dvd quick!!!

I, too, am not happy with seasons being spilt up, but as long as we can still get them I am not going to complain too much. If people complain too much and don't buy, then they don't continue to release the show. When I start purchasing a series, I want the whole thing not just part of it.

There are plenty of shows that release an entire season at reasonable prices. I've been collecting Dallas for $30 and under for an entire season - and they WERE the ratings CHAMP - #1 for five seasons, unlike Dynasty, which only achieved that rating for one season. The marketers are being greedy, and those who feel ripped off should not buy it so as not to encourage this sort of marketing ploy in the future. We can live without the third season of Dynasty - life will go on. If we don't draw the line somewhere, we'll be forever taken to the cleaners.

Finally u can pre-order part 2 of season 3 here at amazon and on october the 21rst we will have the whole season 3 even in two volumes.
What i hope is this will be the last time paramount treats dynasty fans like this and season 4 will arrive at one piece.
For the two volumes of season 3 we spend $50.00 when for the whole season 2 we spend JUST $30.00 so paramount stop be so greedy and give us the fans what we need QUICKLY AND IN ONE PIECE.

I dont care how they release them, just do it. I do not mind paying a little more if the rest of the seasons come out. Season 4 is were the series really hit its stride and became an international phenomenom.

Keep releasing and I will keep buying!

Dynasty is a great guilty pleasure!

I really thought owning these Dynasty dvds would be anecdotal, or just something nostalgic to have as a dust collector. However, the strangest thing has happened, they have gripped me in the same riveting fashion that they did in the 80's! The steady diet of tacky Reality TV shows and teenager driven "dramas" in recent years really makes you appreciate the superb craftsmanship of Dyansty. Each episode reminds you that this is a skillfully engineered, over the top, melodramatic, zany, shocking, bonkers-fashion show, and a true cliffhanging super-soap. The most difficult thing was not ploppping in every single DVD one after the other! There are no characters currently on modern television with this kind of charisma and dramatically costumed physical appearances. My only chagrin is that there are no special features of which to speak of, and of course, the way the 3rd season was miserly split into two sets, sold months apart! That part sucked, but nonetheless, five stars!!!!

The ABC Network's answer to the hugely-popular primetime soap "Dallas", DYNASTY was created by Esther and Richard Shapiro to be the most flamboyant, daring and outrageous of all night-time drama series. The lives of Denver's oil-rich Carrington family unfolded each and every week to the fascination of viewers all over the world, who couldn't get enough of their scandalous private affairs.

Steven's wife Sammy Jo--who now prefers to be called Samantha (played by Heather Locklear)--returns from her New York "modeling" career with their baby son Danny, whom she first tries to sell to the Carrington family but settles on adoption when Blake (John Forsythe) and Krystle (Linda Evans), who still believe Steven to be dead, offer to raise the boy as their own.

Having successfully driven Jeff (John James) to the brink of crazy-town thanks to painting his office with toxic substances, Adam (Gordon Thomson) sets about getting Jeff to sign away his son's shares of Denver-Carrington... Alexis (Joan Collins) calls her famous board meeting where she assumes joint control of ColbyCo. AND Denver-Carrington.

Steven (with the "reconstructed" face of Jack Coleman) returns to Denver where he wants to gain full custody of Danny; and Fallon (Pamela Sue Martin) finally divorces Jeff and winds up in the arms of Krystle's ex husband, Mark (Geoffrey Scott), until Alexis cooks up one of her most delicious acts of revenge!

Sweet butler's daughter Kirby (Kathleen Beller) flies off to Reno with Jeff for an unexpected wedding, but not before she attracts the unwanted attentions of Adam, who rapes her in his apartment. When the inevitable pregnancy arises, is it Jeff's or Adam's? Alexis and Krystle have their famous catfight in the lily-pond, leading to Krystle's decision to move out of the Carrington mansion once and for all...

This set includes the final 12 episodes from the third season.

Disc 1: Danny / Madness / Two Flights to Haiti / The Mirror
Disc 2: Battle Lines / Reunions in Singapore / Fathers and Sons / The Downstairs Bride
Disc 3: The Vote / The Dinner / The Threat / The Cabin

A different company could have done better with releasing Dynasty in season sets!

There HAS TO BE A WAY to get Paramount to licnese Dynasty to to someone else!

What we need to do, is start a petition, getting Dynasty released in complete season sets, at a cheaper price!

Please have Paramount give Dynasty to someone else!