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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JROG" data-source="post: 132421" data-attributes="member: 43">EPISODE 2.25: CROSSROADSIt’s time! It’s over, darlings.Frankie is so cruel – teasing us with the possibility of her death but surviving. Damn her, and Jeff for saving her! Couldn’t she have done us this small favor since this is the last episode?After Frankie admits she wanted to die, Jeff puts the most unstable person he knows in charge of looking after her: Fallon. Fallon is seeing thundery skies and hearing reports on the radio about strange lights. As you’d expect, Frankie ends up running away again, and Jeff goes full-on asshole on his wife before apologizing. How many million times have we seen this exact scene?Channing tells Miles she’s pregnant. It’s kinda touching watching her fight through her fears of a pregnancy for Miles’ sake but soon enough she’s having nightmares and we all know what that means. Of course, she’s not Fallon, so she’s not about to run off crying and get amnesia. After one last, blissful scene of Miles shirtless, Channing calls him from the airport and tells him she plans to have an abortion and she’s leaving him because she knows he’ll hate her forever. This serves as one of four cliffhangers for the season.In a rather touching scene, Scott visits Monica to say goodbye. Sable listens in, of course, and quickly calls Arthur Cates. Monica refuses to consider taking legal action. So, what is a sassy grandma to do? She kidnaps her grandson! Cliffhanger two out of four.  Bliss and Kolya don’t appear, so I suppose last episode was their goodbye.Zach tells Sable it was Phillip who tried to kill Jason. (I quite like how tenderly their last scene together ends). Armed with this info, Jason barges into Phillip's and… takes his gun. Guess he wasn’t in the mood to pummel him to the ground again.To push the plot along, Frankie tells Jason she really loves Phillip. Phillip goes off to find her and, why not, decides to kidnap her. Stupid Frankie calls the most unstable person in the world for help, Fallon, who at least manages to tell Jeff what’s going on without weeping too much. Consumed by some kind of guilt brought on by Jeff's berating, Fallon drives off to find Frankie herself and, of course, gets lost.Meanwhile, the show spares no money or effort in a hugely thrilling helicopter/ car chase between Jeff and Jason and the car Phillip and Frankie are in. Because Jason is an ass who routinely makes things worse, he drives the car off the cliff. Somehow, Phillip is nowhere to be found, and Frankie once more is teasing us with the possibility she’s dying. She loses consciousness and it’s looking really good, but unfortunately, we never find out, so here’s cliffhanger number 3!And, then, it happens…. The infamous scene. One of the biggest WTF moments in all of soapdom. Even if you know what’s about to happen, it’s still so shockingly out of the blue and, yes, effective. Of course, I’ve seen it before, but it’s so different in context. It almost works. And it’s hilarious, in a good way: Of course, something like this would happen to Fallon! She’s the kind of person to be killed by a massive tsunami in the middle of a desert! All in all, you can’t take your eyes off of the well-shot scene. Hilariously, Fallon in silhouette looks exactly, thanks to 80s fashion and hair, like the alien does. And off she goes! Cliffhanger four out of four.Not gonna lie: Really would want to see what they did with this.It’s so sad to say goodbye: What a show! What development! What excellent drama! And such gall: Not one, not two, but three cliffhanger kidnappings in one episode!Since we don’t find out what happens, this is what I choose to believe happened next: Frankie died painfully, her internal organs bleeding profusely. Jeff kept his promise to Jason never to forgive him and sides with Phillip, who is helpless with amnesia, but of course is lying: This turn of events spearheads him into full-blown villain status, taking over from Zach, who clearly was never going to win against Jason. But Phillip… that’s another story.As for Fallon, clearly her UFO kidnapping is what inspired THE X-FILES. She would have come back pregnant again: Jeff's baby or an alien progeny via Miles’ super sperm? Come to think of it, the Colby offices look a lot like the Great Northern over at TWIN PEAKS, so clearly that show was inspired by the Colbys as well. Not bad for a short-lived, silly primetime soap!Thanks for the company, lovelies!  </blockquote>

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