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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James from London" data-source="post: 268988" data-attributes="member: 22">The Collapse (20 Feb 85) v Colorado Roulette (30 Mar 88)There’s a really interesting scene between Alexis and Krystle in The Collapse. It starts off conventionally enough, with Krystle barging into Alexis’s office with an accusation ("Someone is sending photographs to me of Blake and another woman!”), only to develop into something more unusual when Alexis offers her erstwhile rival a genuine piece of advice: "Look for the person behind the camera.” This in turn leads to a scene where Krystle visits Ashley Mitchell (who has been photographing Blake for a feature in Life magazine) in her hotel room and cagily quizzes her about marriage and camera lenses. Ashley is clearly bemused. "Krystle, why is it I get the distinct feeling you've come here to accuse me of something?" she eventually asks her. Krystle apologises and leaves without actually saying what’s on her mind. The whole conversation is cryptic to the point of abstraction.“You never could help trying to steal what wasn’t yours, could you?” Jeff asks Adam in The Collapse, referring to his interest in his sister-in-law Claudia, but the boot is on the other foot in Colorado Roulette where it's Adam’s baby that's been stolen — by the wonderfully crazy Sean Rowan. When Sean overhears Leslie Carrington reveal the baby's whereabouts over the phone, he becomes demented with anger. As the character teeters on the verge of madness so the man playing him, James Healy, reaches the edge of his acting abilities. Consequently, there’s an out-of-control quality to his performance that is quite compelling. Healy reminds me of George Lazenby, the weakest actor to play James Bond who nonetheless starred in the best Bond film, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. Just as Lazenby’s limitations worked for that film (or at least didn’t impede it), Healy proves a perfect fit for this B-movie revenge storyline. Sean beats up Leslie in a brutal yet unrealistic way, and I’d be lying if I said I didn’t enjoy it.Then Adam and Steven  join forces against Sean which results in Jack Coleman yelling the immortal line, “Adam, the baby’s in the canoe!” The sight of the kid in a basket floating down a river has always vaguely reminded me of the Bible story about Moses in the bulrushes. Maybe that’s what they should have called him: Moses Carrington.After rescuing Moses, Adam and Steven finally bond . “I never thought I needed you,” says Adam. “You’ve always struggled to belong and in my own way, so have I,”  Steven replies. It’s all very nice — which makes Adam’s betrayal in the Season 9 opener when he burns Steven’s goodbye letter to Blake all the juicier.“All I’ve ever been to you is a substitute for your father!” shouts Jeff at Fallon. This makes her so angry she immediately goes to bed with him. It’s very interesting that her Electra complex should resurface just before the scene where, if David Paulsen’s original idea had been realised, she would have turned back into Pamela Sue Martin. I’m not sure what sort of complex Dex is suffering from in The Collapse when he dreams of Alexis and Amanda transformed into pouting predators, taking it in turns to leer lustfully down the camera lens while addressing him directly ("I want you, Dex!” “I love you, Dex ... You're mine!”) back and forth, faster and faster, till a tormented Dex can take it no more and wakes up with a cry of “NOOOO!”The final scene of Season 8 has a horrified Blake exclaiming, “My God, Krystle!” to an empty, messed-up bedroom (which in reality, iis no more untidy than the average teenager’s). It’s kind of the reverse of the end of Season 2 which has Krystle frantically shouting Blake’s name into a walkie-talkie after she’s lost contact with him on the mountain.And the winner is ... The CollapseBONUS BEATS:[MEDIA=youtube]ZQ2nCGawrSY[/MEDIA]</blockquote>

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