Here's why season 6 sucked
the Melroseboy
come from that class as well. The order of seasons from the best to the
worst, in my opinion, is: 3, 2, 4, 5, 7, 1, 6
But WHY didn't we like season 6? I can give you 11 reasons as to why I
think we all agree on this:
1.BAD GUEST STARS:
Melrose has been known to casting parts very well. They couldn't have
chosen a better actor than John Haymes Newton to play Ryan McBride, or
Chad Lowe for Carter Gallivan. And these characters were enjoyable.
Now let's look at what season six offered us: Dawn Radenbaugh as Amber;
Dan Gauthier as Jeff Baylor; Jeffrey Nordling as Eric Baines. We just
flat out hated Eric Baines. I think we needed someone who had more the
Jack Parezi look to play Eric Baines. I didn't think Dan Gauthier or
Dawn Radenbaugh were Melrose material at all. No offense to the actors
themselves, I know they couldn't help that, but I thought they were too
much the sitcom type to be taken seriously on Melrose. One good casting
choice in season 6 though: Valerie Harper as Mia Mancini. You couldn't
have chosen a better actress to play Mama Mancini.
2.THE PLOTS
Most of the plots for season 6 were either ill-timed, poorly written, or
they just died. The Mancini glove: wasted too much Melrose time, no one
really gave a damn about it, and what happened to the glove after Craig
died? Thank God it wasn't mentioned after he was shot. It died along
with him. Amber: I think they had good intentions with this plot, but
my theory is they changed their mind after the footage had already been
filmed and then just decided to kill it. It was poorly cast and poorly
timed. Craig was just annoying in season 6. He had a good plotline in
season 5, but it looked as if they didn't know what to do with him
throughout season 6, so he was just kinda dangling the entire time, as
was Lexi before she remarried Coop. Bottom line: the plots either ended
too abruptly or were dragged out endlessly.
3.NEWCOMERS/REPLACEMENTS
How much have we enjoyed watching Billy and Alison on the screen? What
about Sydney and Kimberly? What did they give us in season 6? Samantha
and Jennifer. Bad move. All this time we're accustomed to the up and
down romance of Billy and Alison. It didn;t work when they tried to
replace it. Craig said it best when he said to Jennifer, "You could
never be Sydney. NO ONE could ever be Sydney!!!" I couldn't agree
more. And Coop and Lexi: the writers looked like they had the worst
time with them in season 6. Coop had a strong plot up until the point
where Mrs. Shaw tried to kill Michael, after that he just sorta withered
away and left town, thank God. He would've been fine in that 9 episode
frame where he did the Marion Shaw revenge thing, but after that he
really sucked. His appearance was about 20 episodes too long. And
Lexi: I adored Lexi in season 7, mainly the post-remarrying Coop stage
was her best. Did she even have a plot in season 6? Oh, I remember,
running that guy down with the car. That was fine, but it was her only
halfway decent plot. My theory behind that is the producers just said,
"Here's Jamie Luner. Put her in the show." And the writers looked like
they were struggling to do that. The pill addiction thing was bad!!!
4.MICHAEL: WHERE'S THE RAT WE LOVE????
I've been watching season 2 when Michael's rat bastard stage peaked. In
season 6, he was a little too comicy with his comments and stuff to the
point where he was annoying. He just wasn't very dramatic acting in
season 6. Come to think of it, most every Melrose character sounded a
lot more dramatic and serious in seasons 2-3. What happened in season
6? One reason I guess is the voice patterns of some of the characters,
like Jennifer Mancini and Samantha. They just never really sounded
serious to me. Back to Michael, remember blackmailing his boss, having
affairs with Sydney, being basically a slimebucket. Just wasn't there
in season 6.
5.AMANDA WOODWARD ADVERTISING
If you thought losing Shooters was bad, you ain't seen nothin' yet!!
Upstairs is fine, but AWA? It would have been a better place if they
would have made use of the place the way they did D&D. Remember when
Amanda caused Bruce to hang himself? All the catfights between Amanda
and Alison at D&D? Brooke blackmailing Amanda? Craig attempting to
overtake the company? Where was all this in season 6 at AWA? Answer:
just wasn't there!!
6.COOP DE GRACE
Remember Coop De Grace? Everybody Comes to Kyle's? Too Romantic for
Words? A Match Made In Hell? Those were what we call filler episodes,
which were dominant in season 6. We define filler episodes as episodes
that serve little or no purpose in the Melrose Place lineup other than
to kill an hour. Season 2 and 3 had every episode serving a purpose.
They were indespensible from the Melrose lineup. If you missed any of
these episodes, then trust me, you didn't miss anything. I know Coop De
Grace was Craig's death episode, but I don't object to that so much as
the poor way in which it was handled. Craig, who's Mr. Ethical in the
previous episode is suddenly a crazed psycho by the next one. And
suddenly Field-Cooper Enterprises is marketing a heart valve? Did I
miss something? Was that plot introduced? The entire episode was
bad!!! That's what I said earlier about poor plot development, but,
onto my next point:
7.EVIL VS. EVIL
Is it just me, or were all the characters a little more evil than usual
in season 6? Evil characters are fine, if it's handled right. In
season 2, Amanda, Michael, and Sydney were our evil-doers, and everybody
else was battling them to either win or lose. In season 6, it seemed
that basically everybody was evil and only out to please themselves.
You need some good in there. But you can't have all the characters good
(that's season 1), or all the characters evil (season 6). Doesn;t work
either way. You need the good against the bad. That's what I think
made season 2 & 3 such a success. And did anybody notice that Amanda's
role changed somewhere in the series? In the earlier seasons, Alison
was the good girl, and Amanda was the bad girl. As the years
progressed, Amanda became the good girl, and Taylor and Lexi became the
bad girls.
8.OLDIES BUT GOODIES
Paging Jake, Matt, Alison, Sydney, Jo, and Kimberly. How many times
have we bitched about getting our oldies back? We lost too many
characters in too short a length of time. And Shooters and D&D in too
short a length of time. As they say, you dont know what you've got
until it's gone. Matt was kind of a shadowed character, but we didn't
know how much we loved him until he left, and his plot just sorta died
too quickly if you ask me. I know Syd and Kim were major losses for the
show, but I think Alison was too. She was basically the star of season
1 before Amanda showed up, and even then she was always given good
storylines. Melrose Place just wasnt the same without her. And I'm not
even gonna get into Syd and Kim, I think we all agree on that. The
newcomers were relied upon too much in season 6.
9.CLIFFHANGERS
Where the heck were our cliffhangers in season 6? The episodes mainly
just dropped like flies. The only cliffhangers I can really remember in
season 6 were Kyle stopping Eric's fall from the balcony, Peter spotting
blood on Lexi's car, and Amanda flying to the Dominican with Rory. The
cliffhangers were missing, and where were they during the 6th season
finale when we needed them the most???????
10.NO MEMORABLE EVENTS
What do you think of when you hear Memorable Melrose Moments? Jane and
Syd's catfight over the wedding dress? Sydney blackmailing? Kimberly
pulling off the wig to reveal her scar? Kim returning from the dead?
Billy and Alison's non-wedding? Jo fighting Kimberly for her baby? The
memorable Melrose moments were absent in season 6. Don't get me wrong,
I can find lots of good things about season 6 as well, but not as good
as the previous seasons.
11.NO PROMOTION
Remember "Get hooked on Fox Wednesday night?" "Mondays are a bitch?"
Where were these memorable promotions in season 6? I don't ever recall
seeing too many commercials for Melrose in season 6. The promotion of
Melrose during this season was BAD!!!
OK, there's my soapbox for the day. Anybody agree/disagree? Got
anything to add?
Enoryt666
>worst, in my opinion, is: 3, 2, 4, 5, 7, 1, 6
Here's mine: 3, 2, 5, 7, 1, 6 & 4.
>But WHY didn't we like season 6?
Convoluted plots that never went anywhere.
the Melroseboy
worst, in my opinion, is: 3, 2, 4, 5, 7, 1, 6
But WHY didn't we like season 6? I can give you 11 reasons as to why I
Ferris445
Great post! I totally agree with everything you said, and you hit the nail
right on the head. However, there is one thing I would like to add.
#12: Taylor becoming a humorous character: When Lisa Rinna came to the show in
the 5th season, she was sneaky, underhanded, and devious. However, when Season
6 started they tried to make her a Sydney replacement, and she acted like a
totally goon all season. It got to the point where her character was more
stupid than anything else. They totally ruined Taylor McBride. They should've
kept her as a conniving bitch instead of making her into a bad replica of
Sydney!
Ferris
Slasher04
saved the show from damnation! It pisses me off to to think back at how good
Melrose was in the first 5 seasons and then to see how awful the characters and
storylines got. Oh so boring. And boy did the season finale suck!
Stefan
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