Watching The Colbys for the First Time

[Matthew Blaisdel]

The good thing about Dynasty S8 is, they used some re-decorated sets from "The Colbys". But ... other than that ...?

 

[Alexis Colby Carrington]

I loved The Colbys, it seems so much less far fetched than Dynasty and Stephanie Beacham plays Sable so well.

 

[Ked]

Sable lets Frankie have it: "I always thought you were a slut, I never thought you’d prove it!" And it’s a good thing, because Frankie soon goes into victim overdrive and it’s enough to make you tear your eyes -and ears- out: "You put me through hell!" she yells to the man who caught her almost boring his brother. "I asked you to send him away, but you didn’t listen!" Jason is, understandably, stunned to be thought responsible for Frankie whoreness. My God, she really is a slut!

Frankie blames Philip for her being a slut.
Frankie blames Sable for her being a slut.
Frankie blames Jason for her being a slut.
Jeff blames Jason for his mother being a slut.

 

[Alexis]

Sable lets Frankie have it: "I always thought you were a slut, I never thought you’d prove it!" And it’s a good thing, because Frankie soon goes into victim overdrive and it’s enough to make you tear your eyes -and ears- out: "You put me through hell!" she yells to the man who caught her almost his brother. "I asked you to send him away, but you didn’t listen!" Jason is, understandably, stunned to be thought responsible for Frankie whoreness. My God, she really is a slut!

This just sums up Frankie so well. Projecting her wrong doing onto others. She only did it because he was there. How dare he be there! Why didn't everyone keep him away from little innocent fragile Frankie?
@Willie Oleson a whore is a whore is a Whore is a WHORE. Don't you think?

 

[Werewillie Oleson]

She only did it because he was there

She didn't want to be there (but Connie persuaded her) and when she and Jason were reunited she wanted to leave (but he stopped her).
Then Philip came back and he triggered other feelings of love and non-closure, it was such a terrible dilemma. And then she also had to deal with that scheming, bitching sister.

 

[Matthew Blaisdel]

True that. Noone on "The Colbys" is just pure black or white, everyone is in countless shades of grey.

 

[Alexis]

She didn't want to be there (but Connie persuaded her) and when she and Jason were reunited she wanted to leave (but he stopped her).
Then Philip came back and he triggered other feelings of love and non-closure, it was such a terrible dilemma. And then she also had to deal with that scheming, bitching sister.

If I want to leave. I leave. Unless I am shackled to the floor. Bitch could have upped and left, nobody made her stay. Nobody made her do anything. She did what she wanted.
I just wish Sable had have actually beaten the shit out of her.

 

[Spooky Owl!]

She didn't want to be there (but Connie persuaded her) and when she and Jason were reunited she wanted to leave (but he stopped her).
Then Philip came back and he triggered other feelings of love and non-closure, it was such a terrible dilemma. And then she also had to deal with that scheming, bitching sister.

She placed herself there and stayed. Frankie knew what she was doing.

That said, if she were played by another actress, she'd seem less slutty because she might seem less passive-aggressive/WhatPoorMe? entitled.

 

[Matthew Blaisdel]

Kate O'Mara maybe?

 

[Alexis]

Kate O'Mara maybe?

Although O'Mara would maybe be a bit too vampy. Too much a seductress maybe. I just think that Ross' Frankie was too Bambified victim when she was clearly being an unspeakable slut. She should perhaps have been played colder and more overtly calculating. Or maybe I am wrong and the weediness of her characterization was perfect. I mean I do hate the bitch and root for Sable at every stage of the story. So that's just perfect.

 

[Matthew Blaisdel]

Or Angie Dickinson?

 

[JROG]

You whores are making me want to rewatch the show. I started thinking about it a few days ago and this is making it worse.

Then again, I have never objected to discussing what a sucky slut Frankie was!

 

[Matthew Blaisdel]

You whores are making me want to rewatch the show. I started thinking about it a few days ago and this is making it worse.

Well it's more than 3 years that you started your first watch of it, so it's about time again!

 

[Michael Torrance]

True that. Noone on "The Colbys" is just pure black or white, everyone is in countless shades of grey.

Frankie is pure slut. The only countless shades of grey we see on her are her hair.

 

[Werewillie Oleson]

Frankie is pure slut.

That's such a simple and lazy point of view.
THE COLBYS challenges the viewer to think outside the box.

 

[Michael Torrance]

That's such a simple and lazy point of view.
THE COLBYS challenges the viewer to think outside the box.

Come on, even *I * would never say "the viewer." From my count here, there must have been at least six of you watching it...

 

[Spooky Owl!]

That's such a simple and lazy point of view.
THE COLBYS challenges the viewer to think outside the box.

Or challenge to crawl inside her box. Which also makes her a slut.

 

[Matthew Blaisdel]

Yeah well ... you guys can hate her all you want. I still like Frankie as well as Katharine Ross playing her. I would not want it to be another actress, for me she fits right in there.

 

[Ray&Donna]

EPISODE 11: THURSDAY’S CHILD

Serious shit goes down in the episode (someone please explain the title to me). Sable tries her luck with Jason one more time before telling him about Phillip's letter. I love the way she tries to seduce him in the bathtub—she’s got style. "That tramp, that slut!" she screams. I also really enjoy the frequent ColbyCo meetings in Jason's office, even if Heston seems to have checked out. Wayne the Blind Country Singer is so dramatic but there’s a sweetness to him and Monica that juxtaposes violently with Neil's intense jealousy. Monica appeases Neil, although I certainly hope she hasn’t lost all her spunk now that they’re together. She used to fight him when he got this way. Hutch and Constance are also sweet together, but I’m not sure where else this story can go, dramatically speaking. Late life pregnancy for Barbara Stanwyck? Miles is starting to come off as a psycho, although I’m certain the writers are only intending him to just be… angry, but it all works out because he rapes Fallon when they are about to sign annulment papers. It’s totally unnecessary and ruins him character-wise. But I was glad that Sable, though she defended Miles, went straight to her son and asked him what the hell he said to Fallon. Why does Jeff have a framed picture of Fallon and L.B. with him? How pathetic! But John James gives a surprisingly marvelous performance in his second scene with Frankie—where did that come from? As we all knew he would, Jason tells Bliss about Sean and Zach's connection. Bliss cries in that ridiculous, Star-Trek-Cum-Cyndi-Lauper bedroom of hers, and then heads off to slap Sean. Sable then slaps Zach and Zach slaps Sable. And let’s not even touch the "Greek" scene in Livadas’ apartment. Too hilarious for words, although their accents in Greek were adequate enough. And just when I’m thinking that Jeff has to be Jason's child, Jason asks Frankie just that! The fact that Sable is doing all that work to prove Jeff isn’t Phillip's in order to get rid of him, only to have him turn out to be Jason's, is delicious.

DDD

the title is reference to an older poem or hymn or any number of Grammatical forms Wednesday's child is in the know or full of woe whereas Thursdays''s child has far to go. Perhaps they are referring to bliss in her relationship with agua man

 

[Ray&Donna]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thursday's_Child_(1943_film)