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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James from London" data-source="post: 261446" data-attributes="member: 22">The Celebration (THE COLBYS, 20 Nov 85) v The Chauffeur Tells a Secret (DYNASTY, 16 Feb 81)Monica and Sable’s  first on screen conversation, in The Celebration, has the very same setting as their final one, in Catch-22: Monica looking on as her mother titivates herself in her dressing table mirror. In the former scene, of course, Sable is Mrs Jason Colby, mistress of her domain (sister-in-law Constance notwithstanding), whereas in the latter, she’s a single pregnant woman living alone in a hotel (albeit a hotel that she owns). Nor is that the only difference. In 1985, Sable insists that “there is nothing devious about using your femininity … When it comes to men, no two women are ever on the same team.” Four years later, she’s had enough of manipulation and game playing: “I want this baby to come into the world with a clean slate — free of lies, free of vendettas, free of secrets.”Also in Catch-22, Fallon is haunted by dreams of a music box merry-go-round. Is there a link between that merry-go-round and the one she rode in Season 4 when she heard all those terrible sounds in her head? In The Celebration, she, as Randall, is plagued by nightmares “of this terrible sound in my head and then something, somebody was opening the door and coming into the room and then and then …” And then what, Randall/Fallon — he tried to hurt your mommy so you shot him?! Oh, if we could only spread all of Fallon/Randall/PSM/Emma Samms' subconscious thoughts out on the floor at the same time, maybe they would all add up: the repressed fantasies about Adam, the repressed realities about Roger Grimes, the Nazi treasure, the abandoned wedding, even the cinnamon-scented alien. Randall’s nightmare about "something, somebody opening the door and coming into the room and then and then …” almost comes true when a happy-go-lucky rapist tries to force himself on her in a motel room, but luckily Miles is there to rescue her.No such luck for little Lindsay Blaisdel five years earlier, who is forced to make terrible sounds of her own to fend off the advances of horny, Supertramp-hating Christopher. He then accuses her of being as crazy as her mom — which is approximately 37% less crazy than Randall/Fallon in The Celebration when she marries Miles, despite not having a clue who she actually is. Cue alarmed reaction shots from the entire Colby cast, but especially from Jeff who gets the final freeze frame cos he’s the new show’s romantic lead.Fallon is also freshly married in The Chauffeur Tells a Secret, but this time to Jeff. Here, he's less of a romantic lead and more of "a jerk and you know it,” as Michael the eponymous chauffeur puts it to Fallon. There's a really great scene where Michael orders her out of the limo he’s driving and they take a walk in the woods before he pins her to a tree and tells her, in his own sullen, roundabout way, that he’s in love with her. It’s a gorgeous looking, almost cinematic scene. Both characters are feeling a lot but trying not to give anything away and there’s a really interesting shot where they’re facing each other in profile which you kind of wish was in widescreen so you could see them a bit better. The editor obviously feels the same because he blows up the two-shot to creates a close-up of each of them in turn. These close-ups are grainy and out of focus, but there’s something really filmic and evocative about them.The end scene of Chauffeur ..., where Steven quotes poetry to Claudia in her kitchen, she breaks a dish and they end up kissing on the floor while her husband is upstairs helping their daughter with her homework, is really touching.  It doesn’t feel like the watering down of Steven’s sexuality; It feels like one transgression on top of another transgression. They're like two lost souls groping blindly towards each other without really knowing why.And the winner is ... The Chauffeur Tells a Secret[MEDIA=youtube]MCF2nMrQde8[/MEDIA]</blockquote>

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