October 10, 2025 • 11 mins
What was the over arching theme to the show Falcon Crest. James explores that question!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
So I was on one of the Facebook pages of
Falcon Crest, and you know, I do this after show
and it's.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Not just about the actual episodes.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
It's about the perceptions and history of the show and
people's thoughts about the show and my thoughts about the
show in general. And I talked about it being more
than just you know, Dallas, the Dallas with grapes or whatever.
And this person, I don't know if it was a
bot or they used a I or whatever in it,
they had.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Several things that were wrong. People called people in.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
The chat caught it out and called it out and
like that's wrong and blah blah. They started out saying
Falcon Crest was not supposed to outlive Dallas. Well, first
of all, it did, Dallas lasted longer or best of
the home own story. But they were saying that that
that Falcon Crest was revenge. So it got me thinking
(01:02):
about the main premise, you because saying Dynasty was camp,
Dallas was this, and I said, and Dynasty was pre revenge.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
So I didn't think about that for a second.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
And I kind of agree with that. But it's not
just black or white. It's not just about revenge. But Revenge,
remember that show. It came out later in the two thousands, Revenge.
Another story.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
This it was.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Like all of the major dramas of the eighties, it
was family based. The show was about family, about a
broken family, a splintered family, where one side came back.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
To reclaim what was theirs and the other side not
really wanting.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Them to come in. They like they liked being in
hard to the way things were. That's what that was.
And so a lot of the show, a lot of
the characters going to show there's some truth. People came back,
who had scores to settle, who had anger towards some
(02:20):
of the characters on the show. There was that cartel
the later seasons that kind of you know, they were
trying to get at people, and I was really thinking,
I was really thinking about, like, you know, on some level, yes,
it's a show.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
About getting what I.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Want or keeping what I have.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
That's what it was.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
And then maneuverings of all of that kind of like Okay, well,
now I do you know, I have a vineyard. You
want my vineyard to join the Falcon Crest Vineyards, but
I want to cure it for my own family's sake.
I was about their gretty vineyard and stuff for me,
(03:16):
and you're trying to acquire me and to fulfill your legacy.
What about my legacy, my family legacy. Then you have
angel on them say I want to preserve our family's
legacy and pass it down to the appropriate people in
the family, right. Angela was a classic If you thought
(03:43):
she was that person who was like, if you just
do what I say or understand what I'm saying and
then I'm right, everybody.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Would be good.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
But people tried her and was like, no, I don't
think you're right, so she had to fight back. Angela
was not flashy. She was not Alexis Carrington Colby. She
was not. She was not Domini Devereaux. She was not.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
She was. She was like a cross between.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Miss Ellie, but much more cunning and much more business like.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
And Alexis she like, she was like a cross. And
I even hate.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Using them as examples or because she was her own character.
Angela Chae was a very distinct character. She dressed certain ways,
she had that little mini fro.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
She was.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
She was this little old lady who would kick your ass.
She suffered fools lightly or doing suffer fools lightly, did
doing stuff foruls lightly. She was ruthless, but she did
have a heart in there. You had to dig hard.
She almost reminds me of Tracy Quartermain on General Hospital.
(05:12):
This is a sense of there's a hard shell who
when it come to her kids. When heard Richard start
to kind of bond Richard Channing, he was a classic
kind of ruthless guy came in, was businessman they got fired.
He was part of this family and he really wanted
to belong to this family, you know, And that's where
(05:38):
the drama came from.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
It was very old world, an old school.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
They did you some crazy outrageous as the seasons went
on storylines, but.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
The characters remained.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
For most of the time themselves through these like situations.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
But there was a lot of revenge. I wat some
thinking about it.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
There was a lot of revenge that was in throughout
the This weaved in and out these these shows.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
You know, another thing nothing is really strue about.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Because they were saying about how vun Crest was like,
you know, not as good as the others, and I disagree.
I've I did an episode on this on how I
think about the Puggrest. But I just will say on
this episode that I have not said before. Most of
us remember Friday nights if you have a certain age
(06:35):
or a certain generation or two. They went hand in
hand because it was the only soap block. When you
think about this, it was the only soap block that
on night time TV. Yes, Dynasty, Dynasty two, there was
a season they tried to do. They did, but for
a long time, it was Dynasty on Wednesday, not Standing
(06:58):
on Thursday. But but you knew Friday was Dallas and
Falcon Crest, gen Xers, Bloomers, tell me you know what
I'm talking about, and from many of us, it was
Dukes of Hazard, Dallas, Falcon Crest.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
It was a night and see.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
For me because it was Friday night. It was no
school next day, so I didn't have to go to
bed early. I was allowed to stay up later to
watch because you know, we snuck and watched it lately,
you know, on Dynasty on Wednesdays and Thursdays.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
But this was actually it was no big deal.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
So the most of the family were all home watching
the whole light of the CBS line up together.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
You guys remember this, Poks, you guys out there, do
you remember this?
Speaker 1 (07:39):
So it wasn't that it wasn't that difficult and he
was watching it. And yes, Dallas had the bigger ratings
of the evening, but it had a nice residual of
folks who stayed later and washing it because it was on.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Now.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
I remember one friend telling me, what if it was
on different night, would people have watched it? I would
say yes, I think people still would have watched it
because soap nighttime soaps were in at the time, So
like it was on Saturday night or it was on
a Tuesday night, I think people would have watched it.
Still don't know what maybe what if it could have
been bigger?
Speaker 2 (08:16):
What if it was on.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Earlier in the evening because it was on at ten o'clock.
What if it was on at nine to a nine
pm on a Tuesday?
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Who knows what I would have done? Right?
Speaker 1 (08:28):
So but yeah, but back to the write up, with
the advent of AI and people going to a chat
ept to write paragraphs for it that make them sound interesting.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Chat EPT, in my opinion.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Is good to maybe fill out, make a sentence sound
cohesive when it comes to facts. Even chat GPT says
recheck and check your face.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
They make mistakes.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
And if you're posting on soap websites, soap platforms, soap pages.
Fans will tell you gotta know your shit and you
have make sure it's written correctly. Because I said this post,
I think it was. It meant well, but people were
just picking in the park because they're like, well, you
(09:24):
got this wrong, you got that wrong, got this right,
I got that wrong. So I am sang to you.
Get just tracked straight first, make sure it's all correct,
and then they go to chaputi to make it sound poetic.
(09:46):
So I mean, that's what I've done that before. No
problem with that now. But the post worked because it
got me talking and thinking about about the show, so
on some level it actually works. What do you think
about that fucking crest? What do you think do you
(10:08):
think it is? It is a a story about revenge.
I said, I'm actually gonna go to.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
That page, and so I can go to go to
that page and see it's on Facebook. I head it
up and that's gone. I'll movies on this page.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Hold on, please you got I'm hold on anybody I
can guess with me.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Uh, let's see timeless.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Feeds. Thing it's called. I don't know where it is.
It's gone. Now.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
But anyway, I saw it online on the pages, so
I just say, be careful what you read.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
But what do you guys think about fucking dress? What
do you think? What do you think? It was?
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Its main thing was for the nine seasons. It was
on eight seasons or nine year, ten years was on.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Let me know. I'm James like you to touch you
next time
So I was on one of the Facebook pages of
Falcon Crest, and you know, I do this after show
and it's.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Not just about the actual episodes.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
It's about the perceptions and history of the show and
people's thoughts about the show and my thoughts about the
show in general. And I talked about it being more
than just you know, Dallas, the Dallas with grapes or whatever.
And this person, I don't know if it was a
bot or they used a I or whatever in it,
they had.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Several things that were wrong. People called people in.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
The chat caught it out and called it out and
like that's wrong and blah blah. They started out saying
Falcon Crest was not supposed to outlive Dallas. Well, first
of all, it did, Dallas lasted longer or best of
the home own story. But they were saying that that
that Falcon Crest was revenge. So it got me thinking
(01:02):
about the main premise, you because saying Dynasty was camp,
Dallas was this, and I said, and Dynasty was pre revenge.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
So I didn't think about that for a second.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
And I kind of agree with that. But it's not
just black or white. It's not just about revenge. But Revenge,
remember that show. It came out later in the two thousands, Revenge.
Another story.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
This it was.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Like all of the major dramas of the eighties, it
was family based. The show was about family, about a
broken family, a splintered family, where one side came back.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
To reclaim what was theirs and the other side not
really wanting.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Them to come in. They like they liked being in
hard to the way things were. That's what that was.
And so a lot of the show, a lot of
the characters going to show there's some truth. People came back,
who had scores to settle, who had anger towards some
(02:20):
of the characters on the show. There was that cartel
the later seasons that kind of you know, they were
trying to get at people, and I was really thinking,
I was really thinking about, like, you know, on some level, yes,
it's a show.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
About getting what I.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Want or keeping what I have.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
That's what it was.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
And then maneuverings of all of that kind of like Okay, well,
now I do you know, I have a vineyard. You
want my vineyard to join the Falcon Crest Vineyards, but
I want to cure it for my own family's sake.
I was about their gretty vineyard and stuff for me,
(03:16):
and you're trying to acquire me and to fulfill your legacy.
What about my legacy, my family legacy. Then you have
angel on them say I want to preserve our family's
legacy and pass it down to the appropriate people in
the family, right. Angela was a classic If you thought
(03:43):
she was that person who was like, if you just
do what I say or understand what I'm saying and
then I'm right, everybody.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Would be good.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
But people tried her and was like, no, I don't
think you're right, so she had to fight back. Angela
was not flashy. She was not Alexis Carrington Colby. She
was not. She was not Domini Devereaux. She was not.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
She was. She was like a cross between.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Miss Ellie, but much more cunning and much more business like.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
And Alexis she like, she was like a cross. And
I even hate.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Using them as examples or because she was her own character.
Angela Chae was a very distinct character. She dressed certain ways,
she had that little mini fro.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
She was.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
She was this little old lady who would kick your ass.
She suffered fools lightly or doing suffer fools lightly, did
doing stuff foruls lightly. She was ruthless, but she did
have a heart in there. You had to dig hard.
She almost reminds me of Tracy Quartermain on General Hospital.
(05:12):
This is a sense of there's a hard shell who
when it come to her kids. When heard Richard start
to kind of bond Richard Channing, he was a classic
kind of ruthless guy came in, was businessman they got fired.
He was part of this family and he really wanted
to belong to this family, you know, And that's where
(05:38):
the drama came from.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
It was very old world, an old school.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
They did you some crazy outrageous as the seasons went
on storylines, but.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
The characters remained.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
For most of the time themselves through these like situations.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
But there was a lot of revenge. I wat some
thinking about it.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
There was a lot of revenge that was in throughout
the This weaved in and out these these shows.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
You know, another thing nothing is really strue about.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Because they were saying about how vun Crest was like,
you know, not as good as the others, and I disagree.
I've I did an episode on this on how I
think about the Puggrest. But I just will say on
this episode that I have not said before. Most of
us remember Friday nights if you have a certain age
(06:35):
or a certain generation or two. They went hand in
hand because it was the only soap block. When you
think about this, it was the only soap block that
on night time TV. Yes, Dynasty, Dynasty two, there was
a season they tried to do. They did, but for
a long time, it was Dynasty on Wednesday, not Standing
(06:58):
on Thursday. But but you knew Friday was Dallas and
Falcon Crest, gen Xers, Bloomers, tell me you know what
I'm talking about, and from many of us, it was
Dukes of Hazard, Dallas, Falcon Crest.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
It was a night and see.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
For me because it was Friday night. It was no
school next day, so I didn't have to go to
bed early. I was allowed to stay up later to
watch because you know, we snuck and watched it lately,
you know, on Dynasty on Wednesdays and Thursdays.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
But this was actually it was no big deal.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
So the most of the family were all home watching
the whole light of the CBS line up together.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
You guys remember this, Poks, you guys out there, do
you remember this?
Speaker 1 (07:39):
So it wasn't that it wasn't that difficult and he
was watching it. And yes, Dallas had the bigger ratings
of the evening, but it had a nice residual of
folks who stayed later and washing it because it was on.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Now.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
I remember one friend telling me, what if it was
on different night, would people have watched it? I would
say yes, I think people still would have watched it
because soap nighttime soaps were in at the time, So
like it was on Saturday night or it was on
a Tuesday night, I think people would have watched it.
Still don't know what maybe what if it could have
been bigger?
Speaker 2 (08:16):
What if it was on.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Earlier in the evening because it was on at ten o'clock.
What if it was on at nine to a nine
pm on a Tuesday?
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Who knows what I would have done? Right?
Speaker 1 (08:28):
So but yeah, but back to the write up, with
the advent of AI and people going to a chat
ept to write paragraphs for it that make them sound interesting.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Chat EPT, in my opinion.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Is good to maybe fill out, make a sentence sound
cohesive when it comes to facts. Even chat GPT says
recheck and check your face.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
They make mistakes.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
And if you're posting on soap websites, soap platforms, soap pages.
Fans will tell you gotta know your shit and you
have make sure it's written correctly. Because I said this post,
I think it was. It meant well, but people were
just picking in the park because they're like, well, you
(09:24):
got this wrong, you got that wrong, got this right,
I got that wrong. So I am sang to you.
Get just tracked straight first, make sure it's all correct,
and then they go to chaputi to make it sound poetic.
(09:46):
So I mean, that's what I've done that before. No
problem with that now. But the post worked because it
got me talking and thinking about about the show, so
on some level it actually works. What do you think
about that fucking crest? What do you think do you
(10:08):
think it is? It is a a story about revenge.
I said, I'm actually gonna go to.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
That page, and so I can go to go to
that page and see it's on Facebook. I head it
up and that's gone. I'll movies on this page.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Hold on, please you got I'm hold on anybody I
can guess with me.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Uh, let's see timeless.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Feeds. Thing it's called. I don't know where it is.
It's gone. Now.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
But anyway, I saw it online on the pages, so
I just say, be careful what you read.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
But what do you guys think about fucking dress? What
do you think? What do you think? It was?
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Its main thing was for the nine seasons. It was
on eight seasons or nine year, ten years was on.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Let me know. I'm James like you to touch you
next time
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