Not that 3 was perfect: Cliff Robertson seems visibly unpleased to be there at all, and it's hilarious that he's able to operate on spines, hearts, AND brains! And the stuff with Julia in the first half of the season, at the prison and then the hospital, are boring - she doesn't get good stuff until she escapes and meets Lucas.Д«ut everything else is pretty solid, Chase taking control of Falcon Crest, Richard building the racetrack and battling with the Cartel, and the marriage of Cole and Linda and their custody battle with Melissa and Lance. 3 was definitely an improvement over the meh season 1 and the confused season 2. I just finished season 3 it was around the middle of season 3 when I first started watching FC, so now I'm in familiar territory. This was so bad-wasn't Joel Surnow (showrunner for 24) responsible for most of this nonsense? I always thought 24 was a ridiculous show too after the gimmick wore off, but it ran for a long time. I'm sure it's another 'so bad it's good' moment of Season 9 Looking for the upcoming episode of Pilar in dirty rags playing poker with Sheryl Lee Ralph. He says something like 'I wish we were adopted from different families so that we weren't biological siblings' and she just sits there and giggles like 'ooh, that's neat.' WTF? Then halfway through the episode she moves back in with Richard but keeps the waitress job-WTF?ДЄnd I think it was the episode before that, they were flirting with incest between Sharpe and Lauren. Maybe it was some personal quest to reject the stuff the men gave her or something. What happened to that minivan Richard had given her? Just drive that thing around instead of walking the streets like a homeless person. Seriously, she lugs around two suitcases up and down hills in SF to end up in some nasty flophouse. OMG R180 I just watched the Lauren finding herself in Chinatown episode last night. That's one magical vajay to go with the business acumen. And not only did she 'sell' but she was the one who got paid with 2/3 of Falcon Crest (and she only fucked him when she wanted to, and not vice versa). Think about that for a second: that's not Melissa selling her pussy for a billionaire. If you didn't know what we knew, you'd know she had emerged victorious, and if you had The Thirteen's resources, you'd know she was ruthless and willing to sell her pussy to Cesar Romero for a megaprice. I don't think Angela had world-beater money, but her reputation was there for the wine even before the events of S4/S5 left her, to an outsider's eye, substantially richer and more burnished than before (and without partners).

So, the Falcon Crest Angela ended up with, months later, was now land-rich, facility-rich, and ready for an expanded market share (which is why they were able to consider the lower-end Angelina Wines Angela was toying with in S5 or S6).

Moreover, the reason Falcon Crest was able to be annexed by Cassandra was because they were expanded facilities (and buying them rather than leasing) to prepare for a deal with Helios Foods that was a Trojan horse (the deal was never going to happen).

Then, in S5, they sorta make it clear that Peter was smitten with Angela from an acquaintance years earlier (which Angela exploited), and that Peter gifted Angela 2/3 of Falcon Crest as a wedding present. So, as the show moved into more global commerce in S4, Angela was sitting on money in a way Chase (who was arriviste and usually relying on loans) or Richard (who was constantly moving and shaking and risking everything) were not. Her wines were world-famous, and she probably had a reputation as a fearsome bitch dragon goddess at a time when women were not meant to be powerful, but what she was doing was making profits, and putting back into her land, which, at some point, still yielded more profit than investment required. R161, I seriously started thinking about this in S4, during the Cassandra Wilder affair, and this is my theory:ДЄngela was sitting on a lot of cash because she never diversified.

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