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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James from London" data-source="post: 80099" data-attributes="member: 22">14 Jan 87: DYNASTY: A Love Remembered (1) v. 15 Jan 87: THE COLBYS: The Home-Wrecker v. 15 Jan 87: KNOTS LANDING: My True LoveLike last week’s KNOTS LANDING, this week’s DYNASTY focuses on only just two storylines and features a similarly reduced, immediate-family-only cast. The main plot is, of course, the reunion of Blake and Alexis, brought about by Blake’s amnesia. Following last week’s oil rig explosion, he can’t remember anything past 1964 and assumes that he and Alexis are still happily married. Meanwhile, the focal point of this week’s KNOTS is Mack’s reunion with Anne Matheson. 1967 was the last time these two saw each other, since when Anne has been labouring under the misapprehension that Mack was bought off by her parents. He denies it. “I saw one of the cheques made out it to you,” she insists, “for five thousand dollars” — the exact amount JR once falsely claimed to have given Valene to get her to abandon Lucy. While Mack manages to convince Anne that her father lied, Alexis allows Blake to continue to believe they are still together.The initial motivation for Alexis’s deception is to trick Blake into signing her share of the China Sea oil leases back to her, but this soon changes. In the same way that a softer, more vulnerable part of Abby’s personality emerged when she shut herself away with Olivia on last week’s KNOTS, so a different side of Alexis’s character surfaces after she spirits Blake away to a villa in Singapore. (“I don’t want Mr Carrington to receive any phone calls or any visitors,” she instructs the staff). Even Blake, in his clouded state, notices the difference. “Something’s happening to you,” he observes. “There’s a lightheartedness, a wonderful lightheartedness that I seem to have forgotten … Now, suddenly, it’s as if I have back with me that spectacular girl that I had met so many years before.”Like Alexis, Anne Matheson engineers some alone time with her ex, just as her daughter had predicted. “I wouldn’t bother cleaning up the house,” Paige tells Karen. “I bet Mother finds a way of keeping Mack in New York for a while. She’ll catch a cold or break a leg or something. She really is very good.”After observing her for five seasons, we are sufficiently familiar with Alexis to understand the conflict her current situation presents her with. On one hand, she is motivated by power and revenge, as represented by the China Sea leases. On the other, she is still in love with Blake, and it’s quite beguiling to see her let her guard down and allow herself to fall for him all over again. By contrast, Anne Matheson is an unknown quantity and it’s very interesting meeting her for the first time. She is both ditzy and cunning, romantically vulnerable and casually manipulative. When she and Mack finally land in California, Karen meets them at the airport in the family station wagon. Anne couldn’t be more gushingly grateful yet somehow contrives to sit up front with Mack on the drive home leaving Karen squashed on the backseat with all of her (Anne's) luggage. On this week’s COLBYS, Adrienne Cassidy accuses her husband Cash of turning her “into one of those desperate women who drink too much, who wear too much makeup, who have too much of everything except love.” It’s too soon to say how closely this description applies to Anne.Certainly, there is no shortage of desperate women in Soap Land. THE COLBYS’ latest recruit is Kolya’s new dance partner Georgina who looks like a younger version of Marilee Stone and is determined to make Bliss believe she is she is sleeping with Kolya even though he has no interest in her. This week, she hides in his apartment and waits for Bliss to arrive before emerging in her underwear. These days, such behaviour might be regarded as unstable, if not illegal, but in the mid-eighties, it’s simply par for the course for Soap Land's single career women. (See DYNASTY’s Claire Prescott climbing into bed next to an unconscious Steven and FALCON CREST’s Gwen Fuller propositioning Chase Gioberti for other recent examples.)While Anne and Mack and Alexis and Blake stroll down memory lane, each couple recalling the first time they made love (‘Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered’ was playing in the background for Blake and Alexis while Mack and Anne were both “really scared”), Karen and Krystle are left worrying on the sidelines. Krystle, once the perennial outsider in the Carrington household, is offered every support by her husband’s family, even his estranged brother Ben, as she travels to the Orient to search for Blake. Karen, meanwhile, once Seaview Circle’s redoubtable matriarch, is continually undermined by her stepdaughter Paige. “They must have an awful lot of catching up to do, Mack and Mom. I’d love to be there to see them — wouldn’t you?” Paige asks her mockingly.When Blake finally presents her with a contract for the China Sea leases, Alexis responds by tearing it in two. “What’s important to me is being with you,” she tells him, “laughing, dancing, remembering the old and good times … Now is not the time to worry about leases.” By contrast, after a couple of episodes spent focusing on her daughter’s drug problem, Abby is back to her old self on this week’s KNOTS, informing Gary that the generous divorce settlement he is offering is “not enough,” and mischievously referring to Jill Bennett as “a brunette Valene.”Wedding rings play a significant role in this week’s DYNASTY-verse. When she is initially informed by Blake’s doctor of his amnesia, Alexis turns one of her rings round to make it look like a plain wedding band before going in to see him. Over on THE COLBYS, Zach removes the wedding ring from Sable’s finger and replaces it with a diamond engagement ring. “I want everyone to know you are mine,” he tells her. Back at the Colby house, Sable cannot resist flaunting it in front of Jason, but then her real feelings show through. “I never thought I would see another man’s ring on this finger,” she tells him emotionally. “Did you?” “No,” he replies.And this week’s Top 3 are …1 (5) KNOTS LANDING2 (1) THE COLBYS3 (2) DYNASTY</blockquote>

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