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<blockquote data-quote="James from London" data-source="post: 111131" data-attributes="member: 22"><p><u>25 Nov 87: DYNASTY: The Testing v. 27 Nov 87: DALLAS: Lovers and Other Liars v. 27 Nov 87: FALCON CREST: Hunter's Moon</u></p><p></p><p>On last week’s DYNASTY, Blake channelled the Miss Ellie within as he fought (successfully) to save an area of natural beauty from being ruined by big business. This week, he connects with his inner Jock while he deliberates over which of his children to entrust with control of his company (the divestiture of his holdings being a soap-friendly requirement of Blake's running for governor). Just as taking a ride in a spaceship seems to have restored some of Fallon’s former spikiness, killing Matthew Blaisdel has likewise reinvigorated Steven’s personality. Adam, meanwhile, remains as competitive as ever and so when the siblings convene to learn of their father’s decision, there is a perceptible crackle between them. “I don’t trust you,” Adam tells Steven. “I don’t trust <em>you</em>,” Fallon tells Adam. “Doesn’t that make us a neat little triangle?” And she’s right, it does.</p><p></p><p>As Blake contemplates surrendering control of his empire, he recalls striking oil as a seventeen-year-old boy, “grimy, work blisters on my hands, and in my head, dreams — dreams about oil being down there somewhere under that ground. Then all of sudden, it happened. It was there, gushing out of the ground, a hundred feet in the air ... It was beautiful.” What Blake describes on DYNASTY, we witness on DALLAS, but this time it's the dreams of a seventy-odd-year-old man, Dandy Dandridge, coming true — for all of about thirty seconds. “You mean your wonderful nose just found me one cubic foot of oil? All those millions for a thimbleful?!” yells Cliff amusingly as the oil disappears just as suddenly as it erupted out of the ground.</p><p></p><p>Elsewhere on this week's DALLAS, Nicholas Pearce drags Sue Ellen to the Fairview Hotel to pitch the idea of a Valentine boutique in every lobby of a chain of hotels. “Sex and hotels — what a natural combination,” she nods — just in time to see her own husband in an embrace with Kimberly Cryder as they ride the glass elevator up to the penthouse suite. She later retaliates in kind, summoning Nicholas to her hotel room in Miami and kissing his face off. Meanwhile, in a hotel room in New York, Leslie Carrington is doing the very same thing to Jeff Colby. While Jeff cheating on his wife with her cousin doesn’t seem <em>quite</em> as transgressive as what Bobby Ewing got up to with Tammy Miller in <em>her</em> hotel room on last week’s DALLAS, it’s still somewhat eyebrow-raising. If Bobby and Pam were DALLAS's Romeo and Juliet, then Jeff and Fallon were THE COLBYS' equivalent — the soft focus golden couple elevated above the dysfunction surrounding them. However, since re-inheriting the couple, DYNASTY has depicted Fallon and Jeff’s relationship with an irreverence similar to the way post-dream DALLAS immediately set about undercutting some of the more precious aspects of that show's previous season: Sue Ellen’s pious sobriety, JR’s solemn reverence for his beloved bro Bobby.</p><p></p><p>In the penultimate scene of this week’s DYNASTY, we find Sean Rowan and his sister standing in a familiar-looking house. “This is the room where he shot himself, Victoria … Joseph Anders, servant to the Carringtons. They bought him off and then they betrayed him. <em>Our father</em> gave his life waiting upon them and not one single damned Carrington mourned him.” In the final scene of this week’s DALLAS, JR asks Kimberly Cryder what she knows about Dr Herbert Styles, aka West Star’s biggest shareholder. “Styles is from Austin,” she replies. “He was a handsome man with a big powerful voice, a man who could do anything … but now he’s old and sick and he doesn’t have long to live … <em>He’s</em> <em>my father.”</em></p><p></p><p>Even though we only learned of Kimberly’s existence a few episodes ago and this is the first week Dr Styles has been mentioned, DALLAS nonetheless manages to make the discovery of their relationship feel at least as significant as that of Sean and Joseph on DYNASTY. Plot-wise, both revelations are linked to Sean and JR’s respective masterplan for the season, each of which is unveiled this week. “Why look for revenge by hurting other people?” Sean's sister Victoria asks him. “I have no intention of hurting a single one of [the Carringtons]," he replies. "They’re going to destroy each other — father, mother and children — and I’m only here to help them do it.” Meanwhile on DALLAS, it gradually becomes apparent that JR’s plan is to take over West Star. Destroy the Carringtons, assume control of West Star: those are the objectives, we don’t quite yet know how Sean and JR intend to achieve them.</p><p></p><p>Another week, another marriage proposal: this time it’s Richard Channing popping the question to Maggie on FALCON CREST. Just like Jenna on DALLAS a few weeks ago, Maggie is unsure, concerned about rushing into something new too quickly, and so explains to her suitor that she needs time to think. Richard takes her response about as well as Ray did Jenna’s, but instead of flying off to Washington to visit his ex-wife and newborn baby, he busies himself by helping out a long-lost teenage pal. Yep, following hot on the heels of Charles Scott, Carlton Travis and Tammy Miller, Liz “Stretch” McDowell (played by Colette Ferrier from PAPER DOLLS) is the latest teenage pal from someone's past to arrive in Soap Land. Following her father’s recent death, she needs help fending off a takeover bid for his baseball team from the Japanese. (The <em>Japanese</em>?? Looks like the concept of globalisation has just arrived in Soap Land.)</p><p></p><p>While FC gives us a glimpse of Stretch’s baseball team via an onscreen practice session, DYNASTY has thus far chosen to evoke the authenticity of the Carrington football team by focusing on the action in the locker room. Whereas Stretch is all too aware of the problems facing her team, Steven Carrington has no idea that his prize-quarterback is not only screwing his ex-wife but apparently has a drug problem too (Soap Land’s first since Olivia Cunningham’s).</p><p></p><p>FALCON CREST is the Soap Land equivalent of whiplash, constantly veering from the borderline unwatchable to the comparatively sublime and back again. On one hand, the scenes between Richard and Maggie, as he waits for an answer to his proposal, are as rich with tension and emotion as anything you could hope to see on KNOTS LANDING — it’s all about what <em>isn’t</em> said. On the other, the sequence in which Melissa throws a leaving party for herself at The Max (the club where she’s worked for all of five episodes) and invites Angela to be the guest of honour so she can embarrass her is excruciatingly unfunny and as feeble than anything Soap Land has offered us thus far. Elsewhere, Lance’s race-against-time storyline, in which he rushes to find an antidote to the fatal poison he’s been injected with (a vague ripoff of the 1949 film noir, <em>DOA</em>), is marginally better than the race-against-time story involving Richard in last week’s episode, but by now all the convoluted but short-lived FC plots in which a major character is almost-but-not-quite murdered by a passing guest star are starting to merge into one. However, just as one is tempted to write FALCON CREST off altogether, in strides Lauren Hutton, a breath of fresh air as Stretch McDowell. Unsurprisingly, Stretch is a globetrotting photojournalist — the profession of choice for such free-spirited Soap Land women as Ruth Sumner Galveston and Lady Ashley Mitchell. However, Stretch is in an idiosyncratically sexy, tomboy-ish class of her own, exemplified by that gap-toothed smile of hers. Briefly, one imagines that she might be the one to turn FALCON CREST around -- but then comes her line to Richard at the end of the ep: “I think someone just tried to kill me!” Oh great: yet another FC murder storyline about people we don’t really know.</p><p></p><p>And this week’s Top 3 are …</p><p></p><p>1 (2) DALLAS</p><p>2 (3) DYNASTY</p><p>3 (4) FALCON CREST</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="James from London, post: 111131, member: 22"] [U]25 Nov 87: DYNASTY: The Testing v. 27 Nov 87: DALLAS: Lovers and Other Liars v. 27 Nov 87: FALCON CREST: Hunter's Moon[/U] On last week’s DYNASTY, Blake channelled the Miss Ellie within as he fought (successfully) to save an area of natural beauty from being ruined by big business. This week, he connects with his inner Jock while he deliberates over which of his children to entrust with control of his company (the divestiture of his holdings being a soap-friendly requirement of Blake's running for governor). Just as taking a ride in a spaceship seems to have restored some of Fallon’s former spikiness, killing Matthew Blaisdel has likewise reinvigorated Steven’s personality. Adam, meanwhile, remains as competitive as ever and so when the siblings convene to learn of their father’s decision, there is a perceptible crackle between them. “I don’t trust you,” Adam tells Steven. “I don’t trust [I]you[/I],” Fallon tells Adam. “Doesn’t that make us a neat little triangle?” And she’s right, it does. As Blake contemplates surrendering control of his empire, he recalls striking oil as a seventeen-year-old boy, “grimy, work blisters on my hands, and in my head, dreams — dreams about oil being down there somewhere under that ground. Then all of sudden, it happened. It was there, gushing out of the ground, a hundred feet in the air ... It was beautiful.” What Blake describes on DYNASTY, we witness on DALLAS, but this time it's the dreams of a seventy-odd-year-old man, Dandy Dandridge, coming true — for all of about thirty seconds. “You mean your wonderful nose just found me one cubic foot of oil? All those millions for a thimbleful?!” yells Cliff amusingly as the oil disappears just as suddenly as it erupted out of the ground. Elsewhere on this week's DALLAS, Nicholas Pearce drags Sue Ellen to the Fairview Hotel to pitch the idea of a Valentine boutique in every lobby of a chain of hotels. “Sex and hotels — what a natural combination,” she nods — just in time to see her own husband in an embrace with Kimberly Cryder as they ride the glass elevator up to the penthouse suite. She later retaliates in kind, summoning Nicholas to her hotel room in Miami and kissing his face off. Meanwhile, in a hotel room in New York, Leslie Carrington is doing the very same thing to Jeff Colby. While Jeff cheating on his wife with her cousin doesn’t seem [I]quite[/I] as transgressive as what Bobby Ewing got up to with Tammy Miller in [I]her[/I] hotel room on last week’s DALLAS, it’s still somewhat eyebrow-raising. If Bobby and Pam were DALLAS's Romeo and Juliet, then Jeff and Fallon were THE COLBYS' equivalent — the soft focus golden couple elevated above the dysfunction surrounding them. However, since re-inheriting the couple, DYNASTY has depicted Fallon and Jeff’s relationship with an irreverence similar to the way post-dream DALLAS immediately set about undercutting some of the more precious aspects of that show's previous season: Sue Ellen’s pious sobriety, JR’s solemn reverence for his beloved bro Bobby. In the penultimate scene of this week’s DYNASTY, we find Sean Rowan and his sister standing in a familiar-looking house. “This is the room where he shot himself, Victoria … Joseph Anders, servant to the Carringtons. They bought him off and then they betrayed him. [I]Our father[/I] gave his life waiting upon them and not one single damned Carrington mourned him.” In the final scene of this week’s DALLAS, JR asks Kimberly Cryder what she knows about Dr Herbert Styles, aka West Star’s biggest shareholder. “Styles is from Austin,” she replies. “He was a handsome man with a big powerful voice, a man who could do anything … but now he’s old and sick and he doesn’t have long to live … [I]He’s[/I] [I]my father.”[/I] Even though we only learned of Kimberly’s existence a few episodes ago and this is the first week Dr Styles has been mentioned, DALLAS nonetheless manages to make the discovery of their relationship feel at least as significant as that of Sean and Joseph on DYNASTY. Plot-wise, both revelations are linked to Sean and JR’s respective masterplan for the season, each of which is unveiled this week. “Why look for revenge by hurting other people?” Sean's sister Victoria asks him. “I have no intention of hurting a single one of [the Carringtons]," he replies. "They’re going to destroy each other — father, mother and children — and I’m only here to help them do it.” Meanwhile on DALLAS, it gradually becomes apparent that JR’s plan is to take over West Star. Destroy the Carringtons, assume control of West Star: those are the objectives, we don’t quite yet know how Sean and JR intend to achieve them. Another week, another marriage proposal: this time it’s Richard Channing popping the question to Maggie on FALCON CREST. Just like Jenna on DALLAS a few weeks ago, Maggie is unsure, concerned about rushing into something new too quickly, and so explains to her suitor that she needs time to think. Richard takes her response about as well as Ray did Jenna’s, but instead of flying off to Washington to visit his ex-wife and newborn baby, he busies himself by helping out a long-lost teenage pal. Yep, following hot on the heels of Charles Scott, Carlton Travis and Tammy Miller, Liz “Stretch” McDowell (played by Colette Ferrier from PAPER DOLLS) is the latest teenage pal from someone's past to arrive in Soap Land. Following her father’s recent death, she needs help fending off a takeover bid for his baseball team from the Japanese. (The [I]Japanese[/I]?? Looks like the concept of globalisation has just arrived in Soap Land.) While FC gives us a glimpse of Stretch’s baseball team via an onscreen practice session, DYNASTY has thus far chosen to evoke the authenticity of the Carrington football team by focusing on the action in the locker room. Whereas Stretch is all too aware of the problems facing her team, Steven Carrington has no idea that his prize-quarterback is not only screwing his ex-wife but apparently has a drug problem too (Soap Land’s first since Olivia Cunningham’s). FALCON CREST is the Soap Land equivalent of whiplash, constantly veering from the borderline unwatchable to the comparatively sublime and back again. On one hand, the scenes between Richard and Maggie, as he waits for an answer to his proposal, are as rich with tension and emotion as anything you could hope to see on KNOTS LANDING — it’s all about what [I]isn’t[/I] said. On the other, the sequence in which Melissa throws a leaving party for herself at The Max (the club where she’s worked for all of five episodes) and invites Angela to be the guest of honour so she can embarrass her is excruciatingly unfunny and as feeble than anything Soap Land has offered us thus far. Elsewhere, Lance’s race-against-time storyline, in which he rushes to find an antidote to the fatal poison he’s been injected with (a vague ripoff of the 1949 film noir, [I]DOA[/I]), is marginally better than the race-against-time story involving Richard in last week’s episode, but by now all the convoluted but short-lived FC plots in which a major character is almost-but-not-quite murdered by a passing guest star are starting to merge into one. However, just as one is tempted to write FALCON CREST off altogether, in strides Lauren Hutton, a breath of fresh air as Stretch McDowell. Unsurprisingly, Stretch is a globetrotting photojournalist — the profession of choice for such free-spirited Soap Land women as Ruth Sumner Galveston and Lady Ashley Mitchell. However, Stretch is in an idiosyncratically sexy, tomboy-ish class of her own, exemplified by that gap-toothed smile of hers. Briefly, one imagines that she might be the one to turn FALCON CREST around -- but then comes her line to Richard at the end of the ep: “I think someone just tried to kill me!” Oh great: yet another FC murder storyline about people we don’t really know. And this week’s Top 3 are … 1 (2) DALLAS 2 (3) DYNASTY 3 (4) FALCON CREST [/QUOTE]
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