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<blockquote data-quote="tommie" data-source="post: 188405" data-attributes="member: 370">True, but it was initially what also made it stand out from Dallas and the other shows - when JR more or less raped Sue Ellen the writers left enough room for the viewers to interpret it as &quot;Sue Ellen giving into passion&quot; (which they do to this day), while Dynasty left not room for that when Blake raped Krystle and left it very raw. Even nuDynasty ended up having Alexis being suicidal and completely drunk out of her mind when she shot that gun, while in the original they had Alexis do it in a very cold and calculating move. There was no mistake what Alexis&#039;s intent was in that moment in time and the follow up scene where she sadistically shows up at the mansion leaves no doubt. On the Colby&#039;s they mirrored that plot with Sable loosening the sadle to what she thought was Constance&#039;s horse, which of course Frankie ended up taking. Of course, Sable &quot;knew&quot; that Connie would check and notice the sadle was loose and the intent was for her to question her own sanity, not to actually fall off the horse. Either way, there was no question about what happened on screen for Alexis, no real excuse except that she wanted to kill that baby (and maybe Krystle) and get away with it. But yes, you can&#039;t have an amoral character like that running around in the long-term. They can work as a season villain that are shiftly written off to greener pastures once they&#039;ve served their purpose. I think it&#039;s worth to remember that the episode had been written and likely filmed even before an episode of season 2 started airing. For all they knew at that point Alexis as a character could turn out to be a complete bust with the audiences and they&#039;d be forced by the network to write her out come midseason, of course that didn&#039;t end up happening.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="tommie, post: 188405, member: 370"] True, but it was initially what also made it stand out from [I]Dallas [/I]and the other shows - when JR more or less raped Sue Ellen the writers left enough room for the viewers to interpret it as "Sue Ellen giving into passion" (which they do to this day), while Dynasty left not room for that when Blake raped Krystle and left it very raw. Even nuDynasty ended up having Alexis being suicidal and completely drunk out of her mind when she shot that gun, while in the original they had Alexis do it in a very cold and calculating move. There was no mistake what Alexis's intent was in that moment in time and the follow up scene where she sadistically shows up at the mansion leaves no doubt. On the Colby's they mirrored that plot with Sable loosening the sadle to what she thought was Constance's horse, which of course Frankie ended up taking. Of course, Sable "knew" that Connie would check and notice the sadle was loose and the intent was for her to question her own sanity, not to [I]actually [/I]fall off the horse. Either way, there was no question about what happened on screen for Alexis, no real excuse except that she wanted to kill that baby (and maybe Krystle) and get away with it. But yes, you can't have an amoral character like that running around in the long-term. They can work as a season villain that are shiftly written off to greener pastures once they've served their purpose. I think it's worth to remember that the episode had been written and likely filmed even before an episode of season 2 started airing. For all they knew at that point Alexis as a character could turn out to be a complete bust with the audiences and they'd be forced by the network to write her out come midseason, of course that didn't end up happening. [/QUOTE]

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