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No I didn't notice him that time but I did catch it was him later. I have 3 more episodes to post because I forgot the last two yesterday.
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S6E19 Dance of Deception
Its looking like Maggie is about to give birth
“Why aren’t you in a hospice?”
Because labour and babies don’t do scheduling all that well, these things can happen anywhere, why are you asking dumb stupid questions? Oh yeah, so you can make out there’s this big romance going on between your mother & Richard.
Now she’s telling her father about the baby coming
“Well, I’m sure she’s in good hands”
Of course she is, you’re not there to cause more stress!
Bloody hell, now Dan is playing some soft music on the piano while Maggie moans and moans
Chase is now delivering the baby, the ambulance should be here soon, I recall Chase overtaking it about 10 minutes ago.
Smiles all round and a fainting lady as they announce it’s a boy
“Which one of you do I congratulate?”
How nice, Melissa calls in on that woman sleeping with Lance
“Continuing to sleep with my husband may prove extremely hazardous to your wellbeing”
What a kind and thoughtful thing to say.
Angela is dining with someone called Saunders, am I to believe that he’s the new Peter, or even Philip?
That new fluff that’s dating Chase is suggesting he spends some time with his wife and the new baby
“My wife was raped (to which I don’t care and probably blame her) she refused to have a paternity test and have the child no matter what”
Oh lady, do you know who you are getting into bed with?
“I’m sorry”
“Don’t be, it’s that bitch who’s at fault for getting raped and not checking to see if I’m the father”
Something really weird just happened, someone was playing around with some blood samples and they picked out one that belonged to Chase.
Ha! The blond fitness instructor put her arm around Lance and of course, Melissa had to walk in right at that very moment, anyway that’s not why I’m amused, she just happened to find a knife right by the side of the blond woman and she cut her dress off!
Peter’s back and he has a secret that’s going to destroy Richard Channing, but oops, he’s just seen her with Saunders, that must mean she’s having a full blown affair.
And he leaves…
Like the strange ‘blood sample’ scene earlier, a man is lighting a cigar and talking about Angela, I think he’s saying she was locked in a room for ten years…
Oh, I think they are talking about Kit now.
S6E20 Hat Trick
Kit is back in the credits!
Meredith is filling Richard in on that guy following Tony.
And there’s more, Saunders is the man who is wanting to find Kit.
Vickie walks out on a father when she sees his fluff in a dressing gown, well I’m impressed with Vickie now. I thought she was just against her mother and the thought of an affair with Richard.
I’m loving Melissa humming a psycho tune while pruning her garden and I got to find out the name of the blond instructor – Dina.
Tony warns Kit not to call him, though he isn’t aware the phone is tapped. That said, I’m thinking how great of the show to re-use Julia’s wig from season 3 or was it 4?
Fan-bloody-tastic!
Peter spots Kit
“Skylar”
You’ve gotta be kidding me, she walked off and he didn’t see which direction because 673 people just happened to walk in front of him.
Ha!
He found her
Oh, now she’s denying she’s Skylar.
Lance comes to see Dina and goes for a private fitness
And Melissa just happens to be there at the right time once again, gosh she’s good.
Oh goody, she found an axe, oh crap Eric stopped her.
Those guys have got Tony, but just as it looks like they’re going to throw him in their car along comes Meredith his guardian angel to save the day.
I think I will adopt Meredith as my guardian angel and with Richard barging in on Chase telling his to look after his wife, I think Richard will be my superhero.
Tony goes to Kit to warn her about Richard’s plan to publish and article about her. I wonder why the henchmen have been following Tony for weeks and yet they never followed him to Kit’s whereabouts.
Melissa almost runs her bike over Dina and Kit turns up at Richard’s with a gun – to kill him, but she’s not strong enough to do it.
Emma has just married Vince……!
Chase & Maggie find out the baby is Jeff’s
Now I wonder if Emma might take the baby off of Maggie.
Richard shows Peter the confession from Kit and knock me down with a feather, he’s edited it to imply Angela was behind the whole thing and that she hated Peter, he was only good for his money. This is bleeding awesome!
“Do you still want me to fight Angela with you?”
Yes! Get in there!!
Oh Richard, you’re more frightening than Angela.
Its looking like Maggie is about to give birth
“Why aren’t you in a hospice?”
Because labour and babies don’t do scheduling all that well, these things can happen anywhere, why are you asking dumb stupid questions? Oh yeah, so you can make out there’s this big romance going on between your mother & Richard.
Now she’s telling her father about the baby coming
“Well, I’m sure she’s in good hands”
Of course she is, you’re not there to cause more stress!
Bloody hell, now Dan is playing some soft music on the piano while Maggie moans and moans
Chase is now delivering the baby, the ambulance should be here soon, I recall Chase overtaking it about 10 minutes ago.
Smiles all round and a fainting lady as they announce it’s a boy
“Which one of you do I congratulate?”
How nice, Melissa calls in on that woman sleeping with Lance
“Continuing to sleep with my husband may prove extremely hazardous to your wellbeing”
What a kind and thoughtful thing to say.
Angela is dining with someone called Saunders, am I to believe that he’s the new Peter, or even Philip?
That new fluff that’s dating Chase is suggesting he spends some time with his wife and the new baby
“My wife was raped (to which I don’t care and probably blame her) she refused to have a paternity test and have the child no matter what”
Oh lady, do you know who you are getting into bed with?
“I’m sorry”
“Don’t be, it’s that bitch who’s at fault for getting raped and not checking to see if I’m the father”
Something really weird just happened, someone was playing around with some blood samples and they picked out one that belonged to Chase.
Ha! The blond fitness instructor put her arm around Lance and of course, Melissa had to walk in right at that very moment, anyway that’s not why I’m amused, she just happened to find a knife right by the side of the blond woman and she cut her dress off!
Peter’s back and he has a secret that’s going to destroy Richard Channing, but oops, he’s just seen her with Saunders, that must mean she’s having a full blown affair.
And he leaves…
Like the strange ‘blood sample’ scene earlier, a man is lighting a cigar and talking about Angela, I think he’s saying she was locked in a room for ten years…
Oh, I think they are talking about Kit now.
S6E20 Hat Trick
Kit is back in the credits!
Meredith is filling Richard in on that guy following Tony.
And there’s more, Saunders is the man who is wanting to find Kit.
Vickie walks out on a father when she sees his fluff in a dressing gown, well I’m impressed with Vickie now. I thought she was just against her mother and the thought of an affair with Richard.
I’m loving Melissa humming a psycho tune while pruning her garden and I got to find out the name of the blond instructor – Dina.
Tony warns Kit not to call him, though he isn’t aware the phone is tapped. That said, I’m thinking how great of the show to re-use Julia’s wig from season 3 or was it 4?
Fan-bloody-tastic!
Peter spots Kit
“Skylar”
You’ve gotta be kidding me, she walked off and he didn’t see which direction because 673 people just happened to walk in front of him.
Ha!
He found her
Oh, now she’s denying she’s Skylar.
Lance comes to see Dina and goes for a private fitness
And Melissa just happens to be there at the right time once again, gosh she’s good.
Oh goody, she found an axe, oh crap Eric stopped her.
Those guys have got Tony, but just as it looks like they’re going to throw him in their car along comes Meredith his guardian angel to save the day.
I think I will adopt Meredith as my guardian angel and with Richard barging in on Chase telling his to look after his wife, I think Richard will be my superhero.
Tony goes to Kit to warn her about Richard’s plan to publish and article about her. I wonder why the henchmen have been following Tony for weeks and yet they never followed him to Kit’s whereabouts.
Melissa almost runs her bike over Dina and Kit turns up at Richard’s with a gun – to kill him, but she’s not strong enough to do it.
Emma has just married Vince……!
Chase & Maggie find out the baby is Jeff’s
Now I wonder if Emma might take the baby off of Maggie.
Richard shows Peter the confession from Kit and knock me down with a feather, he’s edited it to imply Angela was behind the whole thing and that she hated Peter, he was only good for his money. This is bleeding awesome!
“Do you still want me to fight Angela with you?”
Yes! Get in there!!
Oh Richard, you’re more frightening than Angela.
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S6E21 Battle Lines
Maggie could be giving the baby away by the end of the week, I don’t think she will go through with it, though it’s interesting that Vickie seems eager for the adoption to happen.
“To even think of keeping this child is completely absurd”
“It’s not the baby’s fault”
Angela’s visit to Chase finally gives me the name to the woman he’s sleeping with – Gabrielle
She has an invitation for two to Dan & Vickie’s engagement party.
“Then you can decide which one of your ladies you’d like to bring”
Peter is filling Tony in on all the details behind Saunders killing Skylar and how he’s trying to kill Kit.
Richard calls to Maggie, he tells her that Vickie asked him to advise her not to make the biggest mistake of her life.
“Don’t do it Maggie, don’t give up your baby for anything”
I bloody well love Richard!
First I was frustrated when Tony & Peter found out Kit had disappeared, then I was chuffed when the henchmen arrived because she wasn’t there to be killed.
“Once again we demonstrate all good things come to me, who waits”
Bloody hell, I think I just spotted Mitch Pileggi!
Ha ha! Angela pays Maggie that visit to invite her to the engagement party
“It’s amazing how much he looks like his father”
The conversation between Peter & Angela was great, he’s accusing her of all kinds with regards to Kit and she doesn’t have a clue what he’s banging on about...
Maggie is going to give up the baby, that’s a shame.
I also think Chase is the father, there was that weird scene where someone was messing with his blood sample.
“By the way Chase, if I should stop by again you can tell Gabrielle there’s no need to hide in the other room”
An emotional time for Maggie as she gives her baby away, I’m glad she shared that scene with Richard and not Chase.
S6E22 Nowhere to Run
Fortunately for Kit, she was out collecting rocks with her son, so Saunders and his men just missed her by a few minutes. I hope it’s Tony that finds her and not the henchmen.
Somethings wrong with Chase, though I can’t figure out what, he mentions the blood samples from that weird scene a while back, I hope this is leading to where they find out Chase actually is the father of that baby Maggie gave away.
Chao-Li drops a vase in a peculiar way, well he was only walking with it, no one or nothing was in his way
“I over-insured that vase, so you have netted me $10,000”
The doctor calls Chase
He tells Chase something
"The paternity blood sample, it wasn’t your blood "
What is Kit doing? Is she messing around with those blood samples, I’m so confused right now!
Now I’m even more confused, Saunders has just caught Kit and called her Susan, that’s if he really is Saunders.
So Kit, imposing as Skylar is really Susan and she had an affair with Saunders, no doubt the boy is his and that’s why he been chasing her down.
Oh my dear Lord! I knew it might be coming, but the way they played it out was brilliant as Chase fills Maggie in
“Maggie, I’m the father of the baby”
Now Maggie & Chase are trying to get their baby back
“They didn’t carry it, they didn’t give birth to it, they didn’t nurse it”
They also didn’t give it away at the drop of a hat Maggie.
Interesting how Maggie refers to her son as an ‘It’
“I don’t want your help Chase, I’ll find him and I’ll get him back, no matter what I have to do”
Well at least she stopped calling him an ‘It’
Would you Adam & Eve it?
Emma is talking to Angela who is asking where her husband is
“He’s upstairs, with our son”
If this adoption is supposed to be discreet and with no connections to the real mother, then how the hell would Emma get her hands on him?
Oh, I take that back, this kid about 5 years old.
Kit, Susan, Skylar, I don’t know anymore has just told Tony that she’s taken care of Saunders.
And I do believe Tony has just found Saunders dead!
From lighting a cigar perhaps…?
Tony couldn’t get any info on what happened, but Saunders managed to leave some of his blood on Tony’s shirt. There’s more, Angela watches Tony leave the winery in a suspicious way and so does the head henchman, who then decides to profit from Saunders death by taking his money.
Now there’s an audience with Saunders, of course, all the leading characters get the front row viewing.
Lance is looking for Melissa, but it seems she left the party early
“How could anyone call you Kevin?”
And there we have it, or should that be and there she has him….?
Mummy loves you, mummy loves you
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Maggie could be giving the baby away by the end of the week, I don’t think she will go through with it, though it’s interesting that Vickie seems eager for the adoption to happen.
“To even think of keeping this child is completely absurd”
“It’s not the baby’s fault”
Angela’s visit to Chase finally gives me the name to the woman he’s sleeping with – Gabrielle
She has an invitation for two to Dan & Vickie’s engagement party.
“Then you can decide which one of your ladies you’d like to bring”
Peter is filling Tony in on all the details behind Saunders killing Skylar and how he’s trying to kill Kit.
Richard calls to Maggie, he tells her that Vickie asked him to advise her not to make the biggest mistake of her life.
“Don’t do it Maggie, don’t give up your baby for anything”
I bloody well love Richard!
First I was frustrated when Tony & Peter found out Kit had disappeared, then I was chuffed when the henchmen arrived because she wasn’t there to be killed.
“Once again we demonstrate all good things come to me, who waits”
Bloody hell, I think I just spotted Mitch Pileggi!
Ha ha! Angela pays Maggie that visit to invite her to the engagement party
“It’s amazing how much he looks like his father”
The conversation between Peter & Angela was great, he’s accusing her of all kinds with regards to Kit and she doesn’t have a clue what he’s banging on about...
Maggie is going to give up the baby, that’s a shame.
I also think Chase is the father, there was that weird scene where someone was messing with his blood sample.
“By the way Chase, if I should stop by again you can tell Gabrielle there’s no need to hide in the other room”
An emotional time for Maggie as she gives her baby away, I’m glad she shared that scene with Richard and not Chase.
S6E22 Nowhere to Run
Fortunately for Kit, she was out collecting rocks with her son, so Saunders and his men just missed her by a few minutes. I hope it’s Tony that finds her and not the henchmen.
Somethings wrong with Chase, though I can’t figure out what, he mentions the blood samples from that weird scene a while back, I hope this is leading to where they find out Chase actually is the father of that baby Maggie gave away.
Chao-Li drops a vase in a peculiar way, well he was only walking with it, no one or nothing was in his way
“I over-insured that vase, so you have netted me $10,000”
The doctor calls Chase
He tells Chase something
"The paternity blood sample, it wasn’t your blood "
What is Kit doing? Is she messing around with those blood samples, I’m so confused right now!
Now I’m even more confused, Saunders has just caught Kit and called her Susan, that’s if he really is Saunders.
So Kit, imposing as Skylar is really Susan and she had an affair with Saunders, no doubt the boy is his and that’s why he been chasing her down.
Oh my dear Lord! I knew it might be coming, but the way they played it out was brilliant as Chase fills Maggie in
“Maggie, I’m the father of the baby”
Now Maggie & Chase are trying to get their baby back
“They didn’t carry it, they didn’t give birth to it, they didn’t nurse it”
They also didn’t give it away at the drop of a hat Maggie.
Interesting how Maggie refers to her son as an ‘It’
“I don’t want your help Chase, I’ll find him and I’ll get him back, no matter what I have to do”
Well at least she stopped calling him an ‘It’
Would you Adam & Eve it?
Emma is talking to Angela who is asking where her husband is
“He’s upstairs, with our son”
If this adoption is supposed to be discreet and with no connections to the real mother, then how the hell would Emma get her hands on him?
Oh, I take that back, this kid about 5 years old.
Kit, Susan, Skylar, I don’t know anymore has just told Tony that she’s taken care of Saunders.
And I do believe Tony has just found Saunders dead!
From lighting a cigar perhaps…?
Tony couldn’t get any info on what happened, but Saunders managed to leave some of his blood on Tony’s shirt. There’s more,
Angela watches Tony leave the winery in a suspicious way and so does the head henchman, who then decides to profit from Saunders death by taking his money.Now there’s an audience with Saunders, of course, all the leading characters get the front row viewing.
Lance is looking for Melissa, but it seems she left the party early
“How could anyone call you Kevin?”
And there we have it, or should that be and there she has him….?
Mummy loves you, mummy loves you
:fantastic:
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Entering the last third of the third season and the show is so good right now. It feels like so many storylines that have been building up for a while are all paying off simultaneously: Terry and her deceptions, Richard's racetrack and his fight with the cartel, Linda vs Melissa with the recent car accident and miscarriage, and Maggie's mysterious medical ailment that results in her fall down the stairs.
Even more interestingly, Angela has been showing a more well-rounded, vulnerable side, but it works and it's done so well, that it serves to enhance her ruthlessness. When J.R. turned sentimental, it almost always felt fake. With Angela, it feels like she's more multi-dimensional than ever because she does feel the sadness and pain, but never allows herself to show it or break down.
And what a fun surprise when Richard and Pamela hook up. I've been liking Pamela in the recent episodes!
Even more interestingly, Angela has been showing a more well-rounded, vulnerable side, but it works and it's done so well, that it serves to enhance her ruthlessness. When J.R. turned sentimental, it almost always felt fake. With Angela, it feels like she's more multi-dimensional than ever because she does feel the sadness and pain, but never allows herself to show it or break down.
And what a fun surprise when Richard and Pamela hook up. I've been liking Pamela in the recent episodes!
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Yes, and part of me wants to see the sadness in her, while the other part of me doesn't want her to suffer emotionally.
Yay!
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S6E23 Cold Hands
Everyone has to stay at the party while the sheriff and his men try and figure out what happened to Saunders, Dan is looking for Vickie. It doesn’t take him long to find her in bed with Eric
“You should’ve knocked”
No one is allowed to leave, yet it’s fine for Tony to come back without anyone batting an eyelid, well when I say anyone, I mean the cops.
Hmm, Angela is telling Chaoi-Li not to mention seeing Tony go to the winery.
The DA is asking questions, when he hears Tony say he went for a walk alone, he gives that look “Oh you must have done it then”
Oh FFS, the photographer at the crime scene stands on one of Tony’s shirt buttons. My we have come a long way since the 80s
Tony burns his shirt, I wonder if those buttons are plastic or not.
Maggie tells Richard about baby Kevin and he looks totally gutted to learn Chase is the father.
Vickie tells Dan that sleeping with Eric wouldn’t have happened if Dan hadn’t been away, so what’s she going to do when he goes to work, sleep with the staff?
Melissa is on stage – singing…
It would have been fun to see Francine on stage singing her hit from the 80s (Melba Moore)
“Love's Coming at Ya"
Tony is filling Lance in on Skylar
“The whole suicide thing was just a cover up”
Richard wants Angela to beg!!
“I am begging you to please give me back my wines”
I think Maggie is trying to seduce that teacher from THE BREAKFAST CLUB into helping her get Kevin back.
It didn’t work!
Lance is looking for Tony’s button when that DA guy comes in
“Well, well, well, Lance Cumson”
Oh he must have killed Saunders then.
Chase gets the address from that guy, but the Hudsons have moved away. I’m confused, I thought Melissa had the baby.
A few crafty moves from the DA and Lance is released, while they arrest Tony….
S6E24 Body and Soul
Melissa is singing again….
She’s now walking around the tables, I hope the wire attached to her mic doesn’t get tangled up.
I’ve always liked the idea of Angela married and I love how great Peter works alongside her, even when they’re constantly bickering at each other.
That detective guy who thinks he’s Marlon Brando isn’t happy with the results of Saunders autopsy.
“Dig deeper, I don’t want this to be accidental”
Chase is digging up information on the Hudson guy who has baby Kevin, he asks someone what Hudson looks like
“Normal, 5 foot ten inches”
Normal…? As in he has one head two arms and two legs, as opposed to not so normal with two heads and three arms?
Richard wants Peter too buy him out of his half of the distribution contract.
“I understand that you’d like to have Angela under your thumb”
Richard is fine wine and dining Maggie, I sure do enjoy their relationship
“I don’t know what the future holds, but I do know right now, there is no one else I‘d rather be with”
Emma is playing happy families with Vince and their new boy. I’m still not sure how to take Vince, at first I just saw him as a total fraud, but he’s had quite a big character change.
Vickie and Dan are quite boring characters, I really can’t bothered with either of them.
The autopsy guy has now found out Saunders was killed with a weapon, two blows to the head apparently.
Peter takes great delight in telling Angela about his purchase from Richard
“I have lost a few battles in my life Peter, but I’ve never lost a war”
Eric sees Vickie in the gym
“You’re crying”
“And why not, Dan told me to take a hike, Angela threw me out of the guest house,
but the worst part is Ome thinks I’m boring”
Not sure what is wrong with Chao-Li but Angela won’t let him die.
I can’t figure where Melissa is hiding the baby.
Tony is charged with first degree murder, because they have the murder weapon. That’s it, no figure prints, no evidence that Tony had any contact with the weapon, no he’s been charged because Angela calls the shots in the justice department.
Everyone has to stay at the party while the sheriff and his men try and figure out what happened to Saunders, Dan is looking for Vickie. It doesn’t take him long to find her in bed with Eric
“You should’ve knocked”
No one is allowed to leave, yet it’s fine for Tony to come back without anyone batting an eyelid, well when I say anyone, I mean the cops.
Hmm, Angela is telling Chaoi-Li not to mention seeing Tony go to the winery.
The DA is asking questions, when he hears Tony say he went for a walk alone, he gives that look “Oh you must have done it then”
Oh FFS, the photographer at the crime scene stands on one of Tony’s shirt buttons. My we have come a long way since the 80s
Tony burns his shirt, I wonder if those buttons are plastic or not.
Maggie tells Richard about baby Kevin and he looks totally gutted to learn Chase is the father.
Vickie tells Dan that sleeping with Eric wouldn’t have happened if Dan hadn’t been away, so what’s she going to do when he goes to work, sleep with the staff?
Melissa is on stage – singing…
It would have been fun to see Francine on stage singing her hit from the 80s (Melba Moore)
“Love's Coming at Ya"
Tony is filling Lance in on Skylar
“The whole suicide thing was just a cover up”
Richard wants Angela to beg!!
“I am begging you to please give me back my wines”
I think Maggie is trying to seduce that teacher from THE BREAKFAST CLUB into helping her get Kevin back.
It didn’t work!
Lance is looking for Tony’s button when that DA guy comes in
“Well, well, well, Lance Cumson”
Oh he must have killed Saunders then.
Chase gets the address from that guy, but the Hudsons have moved away. I’m confused, I thought Melissa had the baby.
A few crafty moves from the DA and Lance is released, while they arrest Tony….
S6E24 Body and Soul
Melissa is singing again….
She’s now walking around the tables, I hope the wire attached to her mic doesn’t get tangled up.
I’ve always liked the idea of Angela married and I love how great Peter works alongside her, even when they’re constantly bickering at each other.
That detective guy who thinks he’s Marlon Brando isn’t happy with the results of Saunders autopsy.
“Dig deeper, I don’t want this to be accidental”
Chase is digging up information on the Hudson guy who has baby Kevin, he asks someone what Hudson looks like
“Normal, 5 foot ten inches”
Normal…? As in he has one head two arms and two legs, as opposed to not so normal with two heads and three arms?
Richard wants Peter too buy him out of his half of the distribution contract.
“I understand that you’d like to have Angela under your thumb”
Richard is fine wine and dining Maggie, I sure do enjoy their relationship
“I don’t know what the future holds, but I do know right now, there is no one else I‘d rather be with”
Emma is playing happy families with Vince and their new boy. I’m still not sure how to take Vince, at first I just saw him as a total fraud, but he’s had quite a big character change.
Vickie and Dan are quite boring characters, I really can’t bothered with either of them.
The autopsy guy has now found out Saunders was killed with a weapon, two blows to the head apparently.
Peter takes great delight in telling Angela about his purchase from Richard
“I have lost a few battles in my life Peter, but I’ve never lost a war”
Eric sees Vickie in the gym
“You’re crying”
“And why not, Dan told me to take a hike, Angela threw me out of the guest house,
but the worst part is Ome thinks I’m boring”
Not sure what is wrong with Chao-Li but Angela won’t let him die.
I can’t figure where Melissa is hiding the baby.
Tony is charged with first degree murder, because they have the murder weapon. That’s it, no figure prints, no evidence that Tony had any contact with the weapon, no he’s been charged because Angela calls the shots in the justice department.
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S6E25 Loose Cannons
I’m starting to think they haven’t got enough evidence to prove Tony killed Saunders, but I’m unsure with this been the 80s whether lack of evidence is works in Tony’s favour
“Dad, why did you leave the party at the precise moment Roland Saunders was killed?”
Angela comes to see Lance
“It’s Chao-Li, he’s dying Lance”
Maggie has decided that she might as well give up her family, seeing how she can’t get her baby back. She’s angry and destructive so Richard thinks it’s a good idea to share a shower, though it’s not in the sense of seduction, more to cool her down.
It works! She’s laughing.
Dan is thinking of moving on, Angela doesn’t want him to go and I’m wondering what the point of this character was.
Maggie’s knight in shining armour, otherwise known as Richard Channing comes to give Vickie a piece of his mind (well he really wants to bend her over his knee and spank her bottom) over how she has neglected her mother. Vickie continues to be the bitch saying Maggie has Richard to support her like she has Dan, no sorry it’s Eric this month.
“It was your little brother that your mother gave up, partly at your insistence”
Where is Melissa hiding this baby?
Meanwhile, over breakfast with their new boy, Vince releases a little uncomfortable cough as he reads an article about his coming marriage to Emma, only it reports him as someone called Robert Trent.
Oh, it’s not about his name, more that his picture is in there and now he has to go away on business – alone. I like him now, but only because I’m curious what he’s running away from.
Angela wants Jay to get some ammunition on Melissa in her bid to split up her & Lance, he finds out she has as place in the city and it’s suspected that she’s using this place to conduct an affair, so that’s where she’s hiding the baby.
Here’s the thing… If they are watching Melissa then surely they would see that she’s not using the place to bring back a man or a handful of men and wouldn’t they notice the nanny coming and going?
Bloody hell, Vince leaves and the next minute (okay it might be a tad longer than that) he returns.
Tony’s lawyer is talking with that dumb detective, she tells him the story about Kit/Skylar and he continues his dumbness by saying that he doesn’t believe her and he’s still going for Tony.
“When the truth comes out, you’re going to be the laughing stock”
Oh I highly doubt he’s notice, you see this is what dumb people are like, they don’t feel humiliated because they’re too caught up in their own stupidity.
Chase is telling Gabriella that he’s going to divorce Maggie, now all I need him to say he’s moving to Florida.
Ha brilliant, I mean really brilliant! Maggie gets a parcel, it’s the blanket she used when she gave the baby away
“We don’t need this anymore, save it for your next baby”
Even better, Melissa comes home to her new baby
“I thought I’d give your nanny the day off”
S6E26 The Great Karlotti
I’m loving the music as this episode opens up with ariel scenes of San Francisco
Melissa is asking Anglea how she found out about her and the baby, “I can’t remember when I wasn’t one step ahead of you”
The question is, who sent Maggie the baby’s blanket?
Lance giving Vince the hard word over never hurting Emma was great, then Angela gets her turn with him and he’s starting to look like he’s panicking.
Why is Angela focusing on Melissa, she’s wanting to change her image.
What the bloody hell…?
How in the world did he return…?
Maggie & Chase are in Boston and they knock on a door looking for who might have their baby and Wainwright answers….
I’m lost for words, well actually I’m not because I’m still typing away, but what the …?
Oh…
He’s Jeff’s brother.
Now I’m disappointed!
But that was a great moment all the same.
Chase now thinks the answer to Kevin’s whereabouts lies in the Valley.
Melissa has had her makeover and Lance is thinking “Good God!”
“What’s a matter honey, don’t ya like my new style?
What is this, fancy dress?
Vince arrives for the wedding rehearsal dressed like something from an early Clint Eastwood movie
Maggie wants to see Wainwright’s grave, I didn’t realise she wanted to talk to it.
There was a moment in Boston where I thought Maggie & Chase would try and give it another go. Thankfully that was only a thought, I really don’t want to see these back together any more than I want to see Chase live happily ever after.
Angela is really getting to Melissa which is fun to watch, I want to see how far Angela can push her and what Melissa would do if pushed to the edge.
I was expecting something to happen during the wedding vows and sure enough as Vince speaks
“How can you say that when you’re married to me”
ROTFLMFAO!!!
More and more women are claiming to be his wife.
I guess there was a happy ending somewhere in all this when Eric announces that he married Vickie three days ago.
I’m starting to think they haven’t got enough evidence to prove Tony killed Saunders, but I’m unsure with this been the 80s whether lack of evidence is works in Tony’s favour
“Dad, why did you leave the party at the precise moment Roland Saunders was killed?”
Angela comes to see Lance
“It’s Chao-Li, he’s dying Lance”
Maggie has decided that she might as well give up her family, seeing how she can’t get her baby back. She’s angry and destructive so Richard thinks it’s a good idea to share a shower, though it’s not in the sense of seduction, more to cool her down.
It works! She’s laughing.
Dan is thinking of moving on, Angela doesn’t want him to go and I’m wondering what the point of this character was.
Maggie’s knight in shining armour, otherwise known as Richard Channing comes to give Vickie a piece of his mind (well he really wants to bend her over his knee and spank her bottom) over how she has neglected her mother. Vickie continues to be the bitch saying Maggie has Richard to support her like she has Dan, no sorry it’s Eric this month.
“It was your little brother that your mother gave up, partly at your insistence”
Where is Melissa hiding this baby?
Meanwhile, over breakfast with their new boy, Vince releases a little uncomfortable cough as he reads an article about his coming marriage to Emma, only it reports him as someone called Robert Trent.
Oh, it’s not about his name, more that his picture is in there and now he has to go away on business – alone. I like him now, but only because I’m curious what he’s running away from.
Angela wants Jay to get some ammunition on Melissa in her bid to split up her & Lance, he finds out she has as place in the city and it’s suspected that she’s using this place to conduct an affair, so that’s where she’s hiding the baby.
Here’s the thing… If they are watching Melissa then surely they would see that she’s not using the place to bring back a man or a handful of men and wouldn’t they notice the nanny coming and going?
Bloody hell, Vince leaves and the next minute (okay it might be a tad longer than that) he returns.
Tony’s lawyer is talking with that dumb detective, she tells him the story about Kit/Skylar and he continues his dumbness by saying that he doesn’t believe her and he’s still going for Tony.
“When the truth comes out, you’re going to be the laughing stock”
Oh I highly doubt he’s notice, you see this is what dumb people are like, they don’t feel humiliated because they’re too caught up in their own stupidity.
Chase is telling Gabriella that he’s going to divorce Maggie, now all I need him to say he’s moving to Florida.
Ha brilliant, I mean really brilliant! Maggie gets a parcel, it’s the blanket she used when she gave the baby away
“We don’t need this anymore, save it for your next baby”
Even better, Melissa comes home to her new baby
“I thought I’d give your nanny the day off”
S6E26 The Great Karlotti
I’m loving the music as this episode opens up with ariel scenes of San Francisco
Melissa is asking Anglea how she found out about her and the baby, “I can’t remember when I wasn’t one step ahead of you”
The question is, who sent Maggie the baby’s blanket?
Lance giving Vince the hard word over never hurting Emma was great, then Angela gets her turn with him and he’s starting to look like he’s panicking.
Why is Angela focusing on Melissa, she’s wanting to change her image.
What the bloody hell…?
How in the world did he return…?
Maggie & Chase are in Boston and they knock on a door looking for who might have their baby and Wainwright answers….
I’m lost for words, well actually I’m not because I’m still typing away, but what the …?
Oh…
He’s Jeff’s brother.
Now I’m disappointed!
But that was a great moment all the same.
Chase now thinks the answer to Kevin’s whereabouts lies in the Valley.
Melissa has had her makeover and Lance is thinking “Good God!”
“What’s a matter honey, don’t ya like my new style?
What is this, fancy dress?
Vince arrives for the wedding rehearsal dressed like something from an early Clint Eastwood movie
Maggie wants to see Wainwright’s grave, I didn’t realise she wanted to talk to it.
There was a moment in Boston where I thought Maggie & Chase would try and give it another go. Thankfully that was only a thought, I really don’t want to see these back together any more than I want to see Chase live happily ever after.
Angela is really getting to Melissa which is fun to watch, I want to see how far Angela can push her and what Melissa would do if pushed to the edge.
I was expecting something to happen during the wedding vows and sure enough as Vince speaks
“How can you say that when you’re married to me”
ROTFLMFAO!!!
More and more women are claiming to be his wife.
I guess there was a happy ending somewhere in all this when Eric announces that he married Vickie three days ago.
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S6E27 Chain Reaction
What a bizarre feeling, I thought Julia was back but it was Kit. I blame the blonde wig!
Melissa is back screaming at Angela about the record she’s had released, she can’t take any more, telling Angela that she’s going crazy
“But you are crazy”
Emma is hiding in what I believe is the basement, she’s convinced they’re going to take away her boy.
Meredith managed to bring Kit back, only to lose her as they leave the aircraft.
Lance has her
“Out of the frying pan, into the fire”
Great stuff, Maggie confirms to Richard that she & Chase are divorcing.
Lance isn’t really doing a good job of threatening Kit, even though he has her handcuff to the wall.
“I’ll tell them Tony made me kill Saunders”
Richard’s Moroccan’s 40 dinner was unexpected, especially the part where he restyled his hair.
He’s not doing too badly
“Richard Channing. Part of me fell in love with you from the first moment I saw you”
However, I sense a ‘but’ coming…
I guess I was wrong, they went for it!
And Kit manages to escape from Lance!
During a scuffle between Chase & Lance, Chase discovers a paternity test hidden in a vase.
“Melissa must have our baby”
Angela is staring at Richard as he kisses Maggie, she’s gotta be frustrated by this, or at least I hope she is
“Maggie won’t be joining you, she’s run off with her husband”
It’s looking like that idiot of a detective might actually win his case against Tony, that is until Kit walks into the courtroom.
“I’m known as Kit Marlowe, I killed Roland Saunders”
Well, that was easy.
Bloody, bloody, bloody hell! Peter owns up to killing Saunders!
“Because the bastard deserved it”
Maggie & Chase track down Melissa’s hiding spot, only they are too late
S6E28 Desperation
Melissa is about to fly off with baby Kevin, can Dan stop her?
Richard asking Meredith if she was naked under her coat was exactly what I was thinking as she started to unbutton it.
Turns out she was pulling a gun, but then went and gave it to him.
Emma was right, she couldn’t keep Wendell.
Crazy really when you think about it. She can’t keep him because she’s not married and yet he could get so much from living at Falcon Crest with the family as a whole. Instead he could be placed within another married couple who are struggling to make ends meet.
Wow, Meredith goes one, no two, no many steps above shooting Richard, she gives Angela all the ammunition she needs to go after Richard.
She’s leaving too
“Destroy him for me Mrs Channing”
And I used to like Meredith!
Vickie is telling Maggie that she’s leaving, I hope this happens and she takes Dan as well as Eric. These really haven’t done much for me since their arrival.
Ooh, nice one. Maggie slaps Vickie.
That’s a start!
They’ve found Melissa, but luckily she managed to find another car and drove off.
Fan-bloody-tastic! Angela shows Peter the original recording where Kit spoke highly of Peter.
“I’m so sorry Angela”
“Oh Peter, it wasn’t your fault”
Kit is leaving again…
“If you leave now it’s all over”
I’m surprised they’ve not refused her bail, considering how much time and money was spent trying to find her. I know she didn’t kill Saunders, but she did attempt to kill him when she poisoned the cigar.
Looks like we could be losing quite a few characters as this season draws to a close. Peter, Kit, Vickie, Eric, Meredith and possibly Dan.
Is Angela mad? She’s offering that idiot detective a job!
I really like the idea of Peter and Kit running away together, they built up a great bond together.
Angela is about to read what’s in the envelope Peter left her
“Once you’ve read it my dear, your life will never be the same”
Damn, they cut the scene.
Lord, it looks like we’re adding another to the leaving party as Tony catches Kit leaving with Peter
“That’s one of the reasons, why I want to go with you”
Emma is about to jump off the Falcon Crest roof, Chao-Li can’t save he because he collapses and falls down the stairs, but the biggest shock comes from Peter’s letter.
I’m in total shock, it’s crazy mad and I love it!!!!
Hell fire! Melissa as driven off the pier with the baby in the car!!
Yet again, that was another gripping finale.
What a bizarre feeling, I thought Julia was back but it was Kit. I blame the blonde wig!
Melissa is back screaming at Angela about the record she’s had released, she can’t take any more, telling Angela that she’s going crazy
“But you are crazy”
Emma is hiding in what I believe is the basement, she’s convinced they’re going to take away her boy.
Meredith managed to bring Kit back, only to lose her as they leave the aircraft.
Lance has her
“Out of the frying pan, into the fire”
Great stuff, Maggie confirms to Richard that she & Chase are divorcing.
Lance isn’t really doing a good job of threatening Kit, even though he has her handcuff to the wall.
“I’ll tell them Tony made me kill Saunders”
Richard’s Moroccan’s 40 dinner was unexpected, especially the part where he restyled his hair.
He’s not doing too badly
“Richard Channing. Part of me fell in love with you from the first moment I saw you”
However, I sense a ‘but’ coming…
I guess I was wrong, they went for it!
And Kit manages to escape from Lance!
During a scuffle between Chase & Lance, Chase discovers a paternity test hidden in a vase.
“Melissa must have our baby”
Angela is staring at Richard as he kisses Maggie, she’s gotta be frustrated by this, or at least I hope she is
“Maggie won’t be joining you, she’s run off with her husband”
It’s looking like that idiot of a detective might actually win his case against Tony, that is until Kit walks into the courtroom.
“I’m known as Kit Marlowe, I killed Roland Saunders”
Well, that was easy.
Bloody, bloody, bloody hell! Peter owns up to killing Saunders!
“Because the bastard deserved it”
Maggie & Chase track down Melissa’s hiding spot, only they are too late
S6E28 Desperation
Melissa is about to fly off with baby Kevin, can Dan stop her?
Richard asking Meredith if she was naked under her coat was exactly what I was thinking as she started to unbutton it.
Turns out she was pulling a gun, but then went and gave it to him.
Emma was right, she couldn’t keep Wendell.
Crazy really when you think about it. She can’t keep him because she’s not married and yet he could get so much from living at Falcon Crest with the family as a whole. Instead he could be placed within another married couple who are struggling to make ends meet.
Wow, Meredith goes one, no two, no many steps above shooting Richard, she gives Angela all the ammunition she needs to go after Richard.
She’s leaving too
“Destroy him for me Mrs Channing”
And I used to like Meredith!
Vickie is telling Maggie that she’s leaving, I hope this happens and she takes Dan as well as Eric. These really haven’t done much for me since their arrival.
Ooh, nice one. Maggie slaps Vickie.
That’s a start!
They’ve found Melissa, but luckily she managed to find another car and drove off.
Fan-bloody-tastic! Angela shows Peter the original recording where Kit spoke highly of Peter.
“I’m so sorry Angela”
“Oh Peter, it wasn’t your fault”
Kit is leaving again…
“If you leave now it’s all over”
I’m surprised they’ve not refused her bail, considering how much time and money was spent trying to find her. I know she didn’t kill Saunders, but she did attempt to kill him when she poisoned the cigar.
Looks like we could be losing quite a few characters as this season draws to a close. Peter, Kit, Vickie, Eric, Meredith and possibly Dan.
Is Angela mad? She’s offering that idiot detective a job!
I really like the idea of Peter and Kit running away together, they built up a great bond together.
Angela is about to read what’s in the envelope Peter left her
“Once you’ve read it my dear, your life will never be the same”
Damn, they cut the scene.
Lord, it looks like we’re adding another to the leaving party as Tony catches Kit leaving with Peter
“That’s one of the reasons, why I want to go with you”
Emma is about to jump off the Falcon Crest roof, Chao-Li can’t save he because he collapses and falls down the stairs, but the biggest shock comes from Peter’s letter.
Richard Channing is actually Angela’s son.
I’m in total shock, it’s crazy mad and I love it!!!!
Hell fire! Melissa as driven off the pier with the baby in the car!!
Yet again, that was another gripping finale.
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Season 7
S7E01 Opening Moves
New season, new credits and who will return..?
Chase is missing, but both Dan & Eric make it another season.
Oh wonderful, Chao-li has made the opening credits.
No newbies…
Emma trying to jump leads to Lance slipping, but he managed to pull himself to safety.
“I got ya, I got ya”
Who’s this new character we are watching in London…?
How fortunate that this mystery woman turns on the radio and they are reporting the events that happened at San Francisco Bay. Can’t be much else happening in the world right now.
I’m guessing she’s called Nicole
Angela gets a phone call from Dan
“I’ve got some bad news about Chase. He’s dead”
I guess this is Nicole
Angela pops across to offer her condolences to Maggie, who isn’t having any of it.
“You turned your back on Chase a long time ago, don’t you think I’m going to forget that”
“If anyone turned their back on Chase Maggie, it was you”
And I really wanted Angela to burst out with “I’m your mother Richard”
From San Francisco to North Africa!
Some solider is talking to Richard while he’s in a trench fighting for his life.
Maggie spots someone watching her house, I’m very happy she’s phoned Richard, at least he will try and do a better job than if she waited for the cops.
Melissa is free again.
“I didn’t expect you until later”
There’s a lot of mystery happening since Chase died and I loved the reaction on Maggie’s face when Nicole just walked into her house.
“What a charming little house”
“Who the hell are you?”
She owns Maggie…?
Woah! Angela notices someone who isn’t who he should be and when she questions him he pulls a gun on Richard. Thankfully she had the phone in her hand so she was able to overpower him with the phone and he shot at the floor.
The guy tells Richard he’s working for Jay Spence, who in turn is working for Angela, this is the perfect opportunity for Emma to insist Angela tells Richard who he really is.
Then it ends….
S7E02 Obsession Possession
Angela tells Richard she’s his real mother
“Oh”
I thought that went well.
“For five years Chase was like a husband to me.
We didn’t stop loving each other because he came home to me”
I’m a little disappointed they are going with the ‘he had another woman’ story.
What’s even more insulting is the fact Richard had a friend for life (someone called John Remick) who he trusted the most and yet never spoke of him in all the six years I’ve spent watching this show.
He’s also the guardian of Maggie’s property.
Ha! Back on track with the real story and Maggie returns home to see Melissa with Kevin
“My God, not again”
More humour when Angela visits Nicole
“How sweet. Come to turn down the bed?”
Nicole’s story is that she loaned Chase 30 million in which he bought the house, well, I’m assuming he spent it on the house and vineyards, unless the money is under Maggie’s bed.
“Cherish your memories Mrs Gioberti,
because by the end of the week, that’s all you’ll have left”
There’s no other way round this unless Maggie slits her throat right here and right now.
Angela worries that Chao-Li could die. Hasn’t she noticed he’s on the main credits now?
I think someone is trying the kill Dan. Well the fire at his home and those guys attacking him was a big clue.
“Tell Angela Channing to stay away from our Land”
Okay, maybe not kill him, just give him a warning to pass onto Angela.
I think Lance is trying to impress Dina
“This car is automatic….!”
For a moment I though Emma was going into business with Scottish singer Lulu!
At Chase’ memorial Maggie & Richard make up with a little kiss and Angela walks by
“How sweet, sharing your memories of Chase?”
The tension between Angela & Richard at the end where she wants nothing to do with him was brilliantly played out.
“She doesn’t want me. All I ever wanted was a family”
S7E01 Opening Moves
New season, new credits and who will return..?
Chase is missing, but both Dan & Eric make it another season.
Oh wonderful, Chao-li has made the opening credits.
No newbies…
Emma trying to jump leads to Lance slipping, but he managed to pull himself to safety.
“I got ya, I got ya”
Who’s this new character we are watching in London…?
How fortunate that this mystery woman turns on the radio and they are reporting the events that happened at San Francisco Bay. Can’t be much else happening in the world right now.
I’m guessing she’s called Nicole
Angela gets a phone call from Dan
“I’ve got some bad news about Chase. He’s dead”
I guess this is Nicole
Angela pops across to offer her condolences to Maggie, who isn’t having any of it.
“You turned your back on Chase a long time ago, don’t you think I’m going to forget that”
“If anyone turned their back on Chase Maggie, it was you”
And I really wanted Angela to burst out with “I’m your mother Richard”
From San Francisco to North Africa!
Some solider is talking to Richard while he’s in a trench fighting for his life.
Maggie spots someone watching her house, I’m very happy she’s phoned Richard, at least he will try and do a better job than if she waited for the cops.
Melissa is free again.
“I didn’t expect you until later”
There’s a lot of mystery happening since Chase died and I loved the reaction on Maggie’s face when Nicole just walked into her house.
“What a charming little house”
“Who the hell are you?”
She owns Maggie…?
Woah! Angela notices someone who isn’t who he should be and when she questions him he pulls a gun on Richard. Thankfully she had the phone in her hand so she was able to overpower him with the phone and he shot at the floor.
The guy tells Richard he’s working for Jay Spence, who in turn is working for Angela, this is the perfect opportunity for Emma to insist Angela tells Richard who he really is.
Then it ends….
S7E02 Obsession Possession
Angela tells Richard she’s his real mother
“Oh”
I thought that went well.
“For five years Chase was like a husband to me.
We didn’t stop loving each other because he came home to me”
I’m a little disappointed they are going with the ‘he had another woman’ story.
What’s even more insulting is the fact Richard had a friend for life (someone called John Remick) who he trusted the most and yet never spoke of him in all the six years I’ve spent watching this show.
He’s also the guardian of Maggie’s property.
Ha! Back on track with the real story and Maggie returns home to see Melissa with Kevin
“My God, not again”
More humour when Angela visits Nicole
“How sweet. Come to turn down the bed?”
Nicole’s story is that she loaned Chase 30 million in which he bought the house, well, I’m assuming he spent it on the house and vineyards, unless the money is under Maggie’s bed.
“Cherish your memories Mrs Gioberti,
because by the end of the week, that’s all you’ll have left”
There’s no other way round this unless Maggie slits her throat right here and right now.
Angela worries that Chao-Li could die. Hasn’t she noticed he’s on the main credits now?
I think someone is trying the kill Dan. Well the fire at his home and those guys attacking him was a big clue.
“Tell Angela Channing to stay away from our Land”
Okay, maybe not kill him, just give him a warning to pass onto Angela.
I think Lance is trying to impress Dina
“This car is automatic….!”
For a moment I though Emma was going into business with Scottish singer Lulu!
At Chase’ memorial Maggie & Richard make up with a little kiss and Angela walks by
“How sweet, sharing your memories of Chase?”
The tension between Angela & Richard at the end where she wants nothing to do with him was brilliantly played out.
“She doesn’t want me. All I ever wanted was a family”
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Ome, I´m so happy you already watched the "vintage years" of "Falcon Crest". IMHO, you are in the middle of the big "jumping-the-shark" moment of the show. If you´re ok with Richard being Angela´s son, then I´m happy for you. At the time I felt cheated by the writers, as if they wanted to erase all the Season 2 episodes with Jacqueline in it...
And don´t worry about the newbies. They just won´t be in the credits, that´s all. It´s probably the season with most guest stars...
And don´t worry about the newbies. They just won´t be in the credits, that´s all. It´s probably the season with most guest stars...
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It hasn't completely sunk in yet. I was thrilled to bits with the revelation, yet never gave any thought to Jacqueline and the original back story - until now...
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Tony’s lawyer is talking with that dumb detective, she tells him the story about Kit/Skylar and he continues his dumbness by saying that he doesn’t believe her and he’s still going for Tony.
“When the truth comes out, you’re going to be the laughing stock”
Oh I highly doubt he’s notice, you see this is what dumb people are like, they don’t feel humiliated because they’re too caught up in their own stupidity.
Poor Dick O'Neill. With that name, he was the perfect actor to play District Attorney Fred Wilkinson, a character in Jeff Freilich's World of Parody (which was largely FC's Season 6), who was comic strip detective Dick Tracy and (The Colbys's) D.A. John Moretti rolled into one. (Trivia: Dick Tracy & Charlton Heston shared the same day of birth.)
Yup, like you did Pamela, Ome. And she went down a similar path as Meredith! I wonder what you'd say about Maggie, given time.
You see, to-date, the repeating pattern I've noticed with Maggie is that she attracts and keeps attracting men who turn out to be douchebags or bad for her mental state of health/marriage.
What are the chances of that happening again, I wonder.I'm also thinking: Maggie giving her child up for adoption was the same thing her biological mother did. Her biological mother turned out to have an addiction too. Might that be on the cards for Maggie too? What do you think?
Ooh, nice one. Maggie slaps Vickie.
That’s a start!
So now, Maggie is hitting Vickie. How strong is Maggie, really? Emotionally.
I thought Vickie had a point when she told Richard earlier that her mother had turned her back on her family. And in S7, Angela says something similar to Maggie.
Angela gets a phone call from Dan
“I’ve got some bad news about Chase. He’s dead”
Oh, how droll. One lemming (who owes Chase a favour) reports his death and all the other lemmings follow.
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Yup, I felt the same way too about that storyline. I thought it was another mistake by new EP Jeff Freilich (this time at the end of S6), revisiting the "vintage years" on top of destroying the "we're brothers married to sisters" dynamic Richard had with Chase, Maggie & Terry.
[I'd heard David Selby had been wanting out of the series from end Season 4. Don't know how true, but supposedly he was tired of his character bedding woman after woman, season in and season out; but was persuaded by the story of domesticity in S5. Meanwhile, Lorimar president & co-owner Lee Rich thought the show "boring" and "in need of a goose" because it was in danger of being cancelled at the end of S5 (to quote Freilich, from an interview Marc Bradley conducted with him in 2003). For whatever reason, series creator and co-EP Earl Hamner was leaving at end S5. (The other always credited co-EP, Michael Filerman, had actually not been involved with FC since before Ana-Alicia was hired in Season 1.) Rich prevailed on Freilich to take over from Hamner. Promised Freilich the backing to spend & do whatever was necessary to get ratings ups. Freilich said he came in determined to change all storylines. For Season 6 he wanted to have a single storyline with Kim Novak as the main feature. The other stories had to be sub-plots to it. Season 7 appears to have grown out of the sub-plots and Freilich's plans for S8, essentially role-reversals, were offshoots of S7's stories, with roots in S6. Howard Lakin said he "cried in his beer" when he learnt that the all-new production team in S8 had thrown almost everything Freilich, he and the others had planned for S8 out the window. That was Filerman's regime. He was brought back to the task by the new owners of Lorimar. As you know, Filerman lasted one season. A new EP made S9.]
In the end, Freilich's Season 7 was, for me, emotionally the most heightened season of them all for how it ended. Which was badly, for most characters, bar one or two among the core. That was oddly satisfying.
IMO, the new owners of Lorimar should have allowed FC to end at S7, and not put the cast and viewers through the wringer with 2 more seasons, each going in different directions yet again.
It seems Soap Opera Digest was a fan of Jeff Freilich, giving FC "best prime-time soap" accolades under his tenure and "most ruined show" (after his departure) for S8.
S9 was a different kettle of fish in the way it was made; and I quite liked it as a standalone. It might as well have been another world for the changes that were made.
But it stood out as a sore thumb against what had gone on before. What a small world S9 turned out to be, having the never-heard-of-cousin of one long-standing Tuscany Valley character suddenly being one of the slickest new villains in town; and having that same villain turn out to not be the biological father of you-know-who who, in turn, turns out to be the biological son of you-know-who.
FC looked like it was becoming a somewhat "tedious soap" in a new wrapping in spite of Freilich's efforts to "make Falcon Crest less of a tedious soap opera and more of a twisty dramatic story".
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You know, you're right. Angela was more multi-dimensional back around this time. One of the thumbs-up people gave Jeff Freilich was for softening Angela, making her "more 3D". Like it had never happened before. But she'd shown her more vulnerable side much earlier, with Julia and then Lance.
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Richard wants Angela to beg!!
“I am begging you to please give me back my wines”
I was disappointed she didn't get down on her knees to beg as Richard asked! He should have insisted. It underscored for me how mellow he'd become from the angry man she'd first met. Actually, I was surprised that by this time Richard was still hankering for revenge. It hadn't seemed that way for some time.
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Yup, I felt the same way too about that storyline. I thought it was another mistake by new EP Jeff Freilich (this time at the end of S6), revisiting the "vintage years" on top of destroying the "we're brothers married to sisters" dynamic Richard had with Chase, Maggie & Terry.
[I'd heard David Selby had been wanting out of the series from end Season 4. Don't know how true, but supposedly he was tired of his character bedding woman after woman, season in and season out; but was persuaded by the story of domesticity in S5. Meanwhile, Lorimar president & co-owner Lee Rich thought the show "boring" and "in need of a goose" because it was in danger of being cancelled at the end of S5 (to quote Freilich, from an interview Marc Bradley conducted with him in 2003). For whatever reason, series creator and co-EP Earl Hamner was leaving at end S5. (The other always credited co-EP, Michael Filerman, had actually not been involved with FC since before Ana-Alicia was hired in Season 1.) Rich prevailed on Freilich to take over from Hamner. Promised Freilich the backing to spend & do whatever was necessary to get ratings ups. Freilich said he came in determined to change all storylines. For Season 6 he wanted to have a single storyline with Kim Novak as the main feature. The other stories had to be sub-plots to it. Season 7 appears to have grown out of the sub-plots and Freilich's plans for S8, essentially role-reversals, were offshoots of S7's stories, with roots in S6. Howard Lakin said he "cried in his beer" when he learnt that the all-new production team in S8 had thrown almost everything Freilich, he and the others had planned for S8 out the window. That was Filerman's regime. He was brought back to the task by the new owners of Lorimar. As you know, Filerman lasted one season. A new EP made S9.]
In the end, Freilich's Season 7 was, for me, emotionally the most heightened season of them all for how it ended. Which was badly, for most characters, bar one or two among the core. That was oddly satisfying.
IMO, the new owners of Lorimar should have allowed FC to end at S7, and not put the cast and viewers through the wringer with 2 more seasons, each going in different directions yet again.
It seems Soap Opera Digest was a fan of Jeff Freilich, giving FC "best prime-time soap" accolades under his tenure and "most ruined show" (after his departure) for S8.
S9 was a different kettle of fish in the way it was made; and I quite liked it as a standalone. It might as well have been another world for the changes that were made.
But it stood out as a sore thumb against what had gone on before. What a small world S9 turned out to be, having the never-heard-of-cousin of one long-standing Tuscany Valley character suddenly being one of the slickest new villains in town; and having that same villain turn out to not be the biological father of you-know-who who, in turn, turns out to be the biological son of you-know-who.
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I'm in two minds about this. On the one hand I thought it was a brilliant twist and it breathed new life into a rivalry that was getting a bit stale. And I can kind of forgive the writers because in those days you couldnt go back and rewatch stuff. It was years ago and it was gone. So I can kind of see how moving forward it made sense. However now we have the luxury of rewatching things, when I did rewatch the first seasons I did feel like it was a shame to have all that history rewritten. So in the context of the time, why not? But taking into consideration the series as a whole it does do a disservice to the shows history.
I remember watching season 1 and all the time thinking, would this Douglas Channing have been capable of such a horrific thing? I came to the conclusion it was possible (although it seemed unlikely), we don't know what he may have been like when he was younger and being married to Angela can't have been a walk in the park! It also meant that both Angela and Julia had babies taken away from them and were told they were dead. What are the chances, eh??