I think I am being too kind calling these character misses instead of Dynasty’s most annoying characters. Oh well. Season 6 saw the introduction of the Fallmont family. Buck, the Senator, who has some bad blood in the past with Blake but who Blake needs help from in order to build his pipeline. His whiny wife, Emily and his two sons - Bart (closeted gay outed by Adam) and Clay (who for some reason lasted the longest).
Emily Fallmont had a past with Ben Carrington. In fact, Emily was with Ben Carrington the day that Blake and Ben’s mother died - the death that was at the center of Tom Carrington’s inheritance. Ben and Alexis lied on the stand about who was to look after Blake and Ben’s mother the day she died in a fire. It was supposed to be Ben but he was too busy fooling around with Emily - who happened to be married to Buck at the time. Ben, however, testified that it was supposed to be Blake and that he was working on an oil rig at the time.
Who suffered more - Emily, or us having to watch her suffer?
Okay - this is easy to clear up. Emily should just go tell the truth. Oh, but Emily could not do that because it would ruin her marriage to Buck. So? Do the right thing Emily. No, instead we have Emily crying and acting tormented all the time. Then, to make it better, Caress starts to blackmail her - until Ben takes care of Caress by shipping her back to Venezuela.
This whole saga drags into Season 7 as Buck gets angrier and more drunk and the pressure builds on Emily to tell the truth. Seriously - Blake lost everything because you are too afraid to say you had an affair like 25 years ago. C’mon. (Oh, and c’mon Blake - stop with this chivalry garbage - force Emily’s hand). And to make it worse - Emily is just so whiny all the time. Fortunately, we are put out of our misery - when Buck calls Emily out in the lobby of the Carlton hotel and she runs off. Do people really just run off and not pay attention to what is going on around them. (Yes, Fallon did it all the time).
Emily meets her demise when she runs into a taxi that I am pretty sure slammed on the breaks in time. You can see for yourself in the video below. There is no way anyone would die from this. Heck, they didn’t even bother to bloody Emily up as she laid there dying from running into a stopped taxi.
