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<blockquote data-quote="James from London" data-source="post: 202495" data-attributes="member: 22"><p><u><em>Awakenings</em> (KNOTS, 07 Nov 85) v <em>Bad Dog</em> (KNOTS, 28 Feb 91)</u></p><p></p><p>It's the second KNOTS Season 7 and 12 combo in a row!</p><p></p><p><em>Awakenings</em> is from early in Season 7 when Jill was in love with Mack, not Gary, and Joshua was still alive. In fact, Joshua is at his messianic, megalomaniac best here — disdainful of everybody, even Abby. In a way, Michael and Linda Fairgate are the <em>Bad Dog</em> equivalent of Joshua and Cathy — a young couple working in the same place where the female is on the ascent. <em>Awakenings</em> is the ep where Cathy starts to eclipse Joshua on his own TV show while in <em>Bad Dog</em>, Linda accuses Michael of being jealous when she returns home late from the Sumner Group because her job is more demanding. She’s actually been cheating on him (aka, helping Greg get his adrenaline up), but Michael doesn’t realise it. Joshua’s late home too, but Cathy does realise he's been cheating on her and pushes him fully dressed into the shower. Joshua's affair with Linda the waitress begins on the beach, just as Gary's did with Abby in <em>Acts of Love</em>. Ben and Val aren’t yet married at this point, but the seeds of his eventual fling with Cathy are sown when she turns up at his beach house in tears after Joshua attacks her. Linda may not be as violent in '91 as Joshua is in '85, but she sure knows how to mess with Michael’s head. And like Joshua, she'll soon die in gruesome circumstances.</p><p></p><p>Like <em>Arsenic and Old Waste</em>, <em>Bad Dog</em> has the Mackenzies keeping an anxious vigil at the hospital bedside of an unconscious young man. Then it was Eric, now it’s Jason Lochner, having received another beating from his father. In place of Abby's touching comparison between Eric and Sid, there’s a toe-curling sequence where Mack recites that horrible "A Prayer for Children" poem — one of my least favourite KNOTS scenes of all time. Yet the same ep includes one of the highlights of Season 12 when Val, dressed like she should be on stage with Prince, storms through Paige’s apartment looking for “your gold-digging slut of a mother”. “I didn’t realise she knew Mother that well,” Paige later tells Gary matter-of-factly, demonstrating that she possesses, amongst her many other attributes, a knack for deadpan comedy.</p><p></p><p>And the winner is … <em>Awakenings</em></p><p></p><p>BONUS BEATS:</p><p></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]zcBjfBpgH8Q[/MEDIA]</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>It's a little confusing, I must admit!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="James from London, post: 202495, member: 22"] [U][I]Awakenings[/I] (KNOTS, 07 Nov 85) v [I]Bad Dog[/I] (KNOTS, 28 Feb 91)[/U] It's the second KNOTS Season 7 and 12 combo in a row! [I]Awakenings[/I] is from early in Season 7 when Jill was in love with Mack, not Gary, and Joshua was still alive. In fact, Joshua is at his messianic, megalomaniac best here — disdainful of everybody, even Abby. In a way, Michael and Linda Fairgate are the [I]Bad Dog[/I] equivalent of Joshua and Cathy — a young couple working in the same place where the female is on the ascent. [I]Awakenings[/I] is the ep where Cathy starts to eclipse Joshua on his own TV show while in [I]Bad Dog[/I], Linda accuses Michael of being jealous when she returns home late from the Sumner Group because her job is more demanding. She’s actually been cheating on him (aka, helping Greg get his adrenaline up), but Michael doesn’t realise it. Joshua’s late home too, but Cathy does realise he's been cheating on her and pushes him fully dressed into the shower. Joshua's affair with Linda the waitress begins on the beach, just as Gary's did with Abby in [I]Acts of Love[/I]. Ben and Val aren’t yet married at this point, but the seeds of his eventual fling with Cathy are sown when she turns up at his beach house in tears after Joshua attacks her. Linda may not be as violent in '91 as Joshua is in '85, but she sure knows how to mess with Michael’s head. And like Joshua, she'll soon die in gruesome circumstances. Like [I]Arsenic and Old Waste[/I], [I]Bad Dog[/I] has the Mackenzies keeping an anxious vigil at the hospital bedside of an unconscious young man. Then it was Eric, now it’s Jason Lochner, having received another beating from his father. In place of Abby's touching comparison between Eric and Sid, there’s a toe-curling sequence where Mack recites that horrible "A Prayer for Children" poem — one of my least favourite KNOTS scenes of all time. Yet the same ep includes one of the highlights of Season 12 when Val, dressed like she should be on stage with Prince, storms through Paige’s apartment looking for “your gold-digging slut of a mother”. “I didn’t realise she knew Mother that well,” Paige later tells Gary matter-of-factly, demonstrating that she possesses, amongst her many other attributes, a knack for deadpan comedy. And the winner is … [I]Awakenings[/I] BONUS BEATS: [MEDIA=youtube]zcBjfBpgH8Q[/MEDIA] It's a little confusing, I must admit! [/QUOTE]
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