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<blockquote data-quote="James from London" data-source="post: 262270" data-attributes="member: 22"><p><u><em>The Check</em> (DYNASTY, 11 Apr 84) v <em>Checkmate </em>(THE COLBYS, 22 May 86)</u></p><p></p><p>... aka the preantepenultimate episode of DYNASTY's fourth season versus the finale of THE COLBYS's first.</p><p></p><p>In <em>The Check</em>, it’s the supporting cast who provide most of the lols: Mark Jennings, overhearing Alexis lie to Blake about her involvement with Rashid Ahmed then blackmailing her for $100,000 and spending the rest of the ep foreshadowing his imminent demise like crazy (much talk of standing on top of the world but somebody wanting to push him off); Neil McVane glowering like a Batman villain; Kirby, making a total hash of shooting Alexis; Sammy Jo, getting beaten up in New York after insulting her sugar daddy’s “sleazy body.”</p><p></p><p><em>Checkmate</em>, THE COLBYS’ season closer, begins the same way <em>The Celebration</em>, its season opener, did, with a helicopter descending from the skies accompanied by the show’s theme. The atmosphere is more urgent than triumphant this time around as Sable is being transported to DYNASTY-verse Memorial Hospital after being slightly shot in the head by Jason. She pulls through and uses the opportunity to wear as many turbans as Alexis did following the cabin fire on DYNASTY. Inevitably, she mistakes Jason’s guilty concern for marital devotion and assumes they’re back together, which teeters on the verge of monotonous, but once she returns home to be confronted by reality — that he still intends to divorce her and marry her sister —things quickly become compelling as the great Sable Colby paradox —her pathetic dependency on Jason and the incredibly, ruthlessly devious behaviour it inspires — comes to the fore once again.</p><p></p><p>Like Sammy Jo in <em>The Check</em>, she ends up with a rather fetching black eye after falling down the stairs, but alleges it’s the result of Jason beating her (no mention of whether she told him he had a sleazy body), leading to his super dramatic, end of season arrest on an airport runway.</p><p></p><p>Fallon and Jeff are <em>almost</em> blissfully happy in both episodes: On DYNASTY, they’re planning to get remarried, but there’s the small matter of her father losing his empire and not being able to pay for the wedding; on THE COLBYS, they’re overjoyed to find out she’s pregnant, but this time the fly in the ointment is that rapey Miles could be the daddy.</p><p></p><p>And the winner is ... <em>Checkmate</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>BONUS BEATS:</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>[MEDIA=youtube]CHRpPLsYKbM[/MEDIA] </em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="James from London, post: 262270, member: 22"] [U][I]The Check[/I] (DYNASTY, 11 Apr 84) v [I]Checkmate [/I](THE COLBYS, 22 May 86)[/U] ... aka the preantepenultimate episode of DYNASTY's fourth season versus the finale of THE COLBYS's first. In [I]The Check[/I], it’s the supporting cast who provide most of the lols: Mark Jennings, overhearing Alexis lie to Blake about her involvement with Rashid Ahmed then blackmailing her for $100,000 and spending the rest of the ep foreshadowing his imminent demise like crazy (much talk of standing on top of the world but somebody wanting to push him off); Neil McVane glowering like a Batman villain; Kirby, making a total hash of shooting Alexis; Sammy Jo, getting beaten up in New York after insulting her sugar daddy’s “sleazy body.” [I]Checkmate[/I], THE COLBYS’ season closer, begins the same way [I]The Celebration[/I], its season opener, did, with a helicopter descending from the skies accompanied by the show’s theme. The atmosphere is more urgent than triumphant this time around as Sable is being transported to DYNASTY-verse Memorial Hospital after being slightly shot in the head by Jason. She pulls through and uses the opportunity to wear as many turbans as Alexis did following the cabin fire on DYNASTY. Inevitably, she mistakes Jason’s guilty concern for marital devotion and assumes they’re back together, which teeters on the verge of monotonous, but once she returns home to be confronted by reality — that he still intends to divorce her and marry her sister —things quickly become compelling as the great Sable Colby paradox —her pathetic dependency on Jason and the incredibly, ruthlessly devious behaviour it inspires — comes to the fore once again. Like Sammy Jo in [I]The Check[/I], she ends up with a rather fetching black eye after falling down the stairs, but alleges it’s the result of Jason beating her (no mention of whether she told him he had a sleazy body), leading to his super dramatic, end of season arrest on an airport runway. Fallon and Jeff are [I]almost[/I] blissfully happy in both episodes: On DYNASTY, they’re planning to get remarried, but there’s the small matter of her father losing his empire and not being able to pay for the wedding; on THE COLBYS, they’re overjoyed to find out she’s pregnant, but this time the fly in the ointment is that rapey Miles could be the daddy. And the winner is ... [I]Checkmate BONUS BEATS: [MEDIA=youtube]CHRpPLsYKbM[/MEDIA] [/I] [/QUOTE]
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