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<blockquote data-quote="James from London" data-source="post: 22735" data-attributes="member: 22"><p>19 Mar 86: DYNASTY: The Trial (1) v. 20 Mar 86: THE COLBYS: The Wedding v. 21 Mar 86: DALLAS: Nothing's Ever Perfect</p><p></p><p>Soap Land loves mysterious back stories about people dying in house fires (think Amy Farlow on DALLAS or Dominic Rossini on FALCON CREST). It also loves court hearings and lifelong sibling feuds. This week's DYNASTY combines all three. "We’re not just walking into a courtroom, we’re walking into a war,” Blake warns Adam (and us) at the top of the episode.</p><p></p><p>As the hearing begins, we learn how Blake’s claim that Ben allowed their mother to burn to death is what led their father Tom to disown Ben and exclude him from his will. This has apparently been common knowledge amongst certain members of the family for years — even Dominique knew about it — it’s just never been mentioned on screen before. Then Ben takes the stand and insists that it was not he, but Blake, who killed their mother. (Cue gasps from the courtroom, protests from Blake and gavel-banging admonishments from the judge.) All of this takes place within the episode’s first ten minutes and the rest of the hour takes off from there. This is the DYNASTY-verse's second courtroom drama in less than a month, but we’ve never seen Soap Land storytelling quite like this before — it’s bold, fast moving and really fun.</p><p></p><p>As the hearing progresses, it becomes apparent that Blake’s moral character is also on trial. There are several references to sins he has committed over the course of the series: his unequal rivalry with Matthew Blaisdel, the killing of Ted Dinard, the custody fight with Steven over Danny, his disapproval of Adam and Claudia’s marriage. On the credit side, mention is also made of the compassion he showed Claudia after her breakdown (“He can very kind and generous to people who uphold his standards,” she testifies coolly) and his determination to continue searching for Steven after everyone else had given him up for dead. In fact, so much attention is given to past storylines that the episode starts to feel like a clip show, except the clips are playing inside one’s own head rather than on screen, and are set against the newly acquired back story of Ellen Carrington’s death.</p><p></p><p>Not for the first time, Alexis is called as a final witness by the prosecution to give sensational testimony against her ex-husband. But the real masterstroke is having her cross-examined by a no-nonsense female lawyer. Mrs. Davis, whose curly courtroom perm prefigures Marcia Clark’s by almost ten years, makes much of Alexis’s many marriages, addressing her as Mrs. Carrington-Colby-Dexter-Colby, as well as her recent failed seduction of Blake. Nonetheless, Alexis holds firm to her claim that "Ellen Carrington burnt to death in her bed while her son, Blake Carrington, was in another bed — mine!” The episode ends with her smiling triumphantly at Blake across the courtroom. It feels like years since she’s been quite so gleefully vicious.</p><p></p><p>“Verdict Waited in Carrington Will Contest,” announces a Denver Chronicle front page that somehow finds its way into Fallon’s pool house on THE COLBYS. The break in legal proceedings allows Steven, Blake and Dominique to nip over to California for Fallon and Jeff's wedding. Alexis, having already shown up late to court on DYNASTY — “It’s called making an entrance,” Krystle explains to Amanda — makes an even later one to the wedding, to the point where she doesn't turn up at all. This doesn’t prevent Fallon from telling her off over the phone for "what you did to [Daddy], betraying him like that on the witness stand.”</p><p></p><p>While we learn the history of Blake, Ben and Tom Carrington's feud on DYNASTY, we see an equivalent dynamic playing out in the present between Jeff, Miles and Jason on THE COLBYS. Just as Blake was the elder brother to whom Tom left his fortune so Jeff is the elder son to whom Jason gives his watch on the morning of his wedding, leaving Miles, like Ben before him, as the younger brother out in the cold. Meanwhile on this week’s DALLAS, JR is the elder son who finally has control of his father’s oil company, "but it’s not the way I wanted to get it,” he tells his dead brother Bobby. "I’d give it back in a minute if I could have you here to fight with.”</p><p></p><p>Both JR and Jason Colby find themselves being drawn back towards their estranged wives this week. “You finally have everything you ever wanted,” says Sue Ellen with regard to JR’s Ewing Oil victory. "It doesn’t mean much to me if I don’t have you,” he replies. “What is about you?” Jason asks Sable on the morning of Fallon and Jeff’s wedding. "Everything in me says no and then I look at you like this …”</p><p></p><p>Just as the court case dominates events on DYNASTY, the wedding is the focus of THE COLBYS, resulting in a markedly different atmosphere between the two shows. Nevertheless, Steven Carrington has a touching scene in both episodes, each time recalling a dead boyfriend. On the DYNASTY witness stand, we see Steven Mk 2 channelling Steven Mk 1 very effectively, squirming as he is obliged to recall the circumstances of Ted’s death. On THE COLBYS, he visits his sister shortly before she marries Jeff and urges her to “hang onto him, Fallon. Every minute that you have with him is a gift — I know.” Here, he is clearly recalling the circumstances of Luke’s death at the last big DYNASTY-verse wedding.</p><p></p><p>The Colby wedding takes up a lot of screen time but, by Soap Land’s standards, is surprisingly uneventful — nobody gets shot, kidnapped or jilted, or even walks out of the ceremony. It’s only after the happy couple has driven away on their honeymoon that Miles is arrested for murder.</p><p></p><p>DALLAS also ends on a homicidal note with Angelica Nero stabbing stool pigeon Nicholas in a French hotel room. It’s by far the best scene of a mediocre episode. The dagger that doubles as a hair accessory and the ceiling fan that casts a strangely ominous shadow on the wall are particularly nice touches.</p><p></p><p>And this week’s Top 3 are:</p><p></p><p>1 (3) DYNASTY</p><p>2 (1) THE COLBYS</p><p>3 (4) DALLAS</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="James from London, post: 22735, member: 22"] 19 Mar 86: DYNASTY: The Trial (1) v. 20 Mar 86: THE COLBYS: The Wedding v. 21 Mar 86: DALLAS: Nothing's Ever Perfect Soap Land loves mysterious back stories about people dying in house fires (think Amy Farlow on DALLAS or Dominic Rossini on FALCON CREST). It also loves court hearings and lifelong sibling feuds. This week's DYNASTY combines all three. "We’re not just walking into a courtroom, we’re walking into a war,” Blake warns Adam (and us) at the top of the episode. As the hearing begins, we learn how Blake’s claim that Ben allowed their mother to burn to death is what led their father Tom to disown Ben and exclude him from his will. This has apparently been common knowledge amongst certain members of the family for years — even Dominique knew about it — it’s just never been mentioned on screen before. Then Ben takes the stand and insists that it was not he, but Blake, who killed their mother. (Cue gasps from the courtroom, protests from Blake and gavel-banging admonishments from the judge.) All of this takes place within the episode’s first ten minutes and the rest of the hour takes off from there. This is the DYNASTY-verse's second courtroom drama in less than a month, but we’ve never seen Soap Land storytelling quite like this before — it’s bold, fast moving and really fun. As the hearing progresses, it becomes apparent that Blake’s moral character is also on trial. There are several references to sins he has committed over the course of the series: his unequal rivalry with Matthew Blaisdel, the killing of Ted Dinard, the custody fight with Steven over Danny, his disapproval of Adam and Claudia’s marriage. On the credit side, mention is also made of the compassion he showed Claudia after her breakdown (“He can very kind and generous to people who uphold his standards,” she testifies coolly) and his determination to continue searching for Steven after everyone else had given him up for dead. In fact, so much attention is given to past storylines that the episode starts to feel like a clip show, except the clips are playing inside one’s own head rather than on screen, and are set against the newly acquired back story of Ellen Carrington’s death. Not for the first time, Alexis is called as a final witness by the prosecution to give sensational testimony against her ex-husband. But the real masterstroke is having her cross-examined by a no-nonsense female lawyer. Mrs. Davis, whose curly courtroom perm prefigures Marcia Clark’s by almost ten years, makes much of Alexis’s many marriages, addressing her as Mrs. Carrington-Colby-Dexter-Colby, as well as her recent failed seduction of Blake. Nonetheless, Alexis holds firm to her claim that "Ellen Carrington burnt to death in her bed while her son, Blake Carrington, was in another bed — mine!” The episode ends with her smiling triumphantly at Blake across the courtroom. It feels like years since she’s been quite so gleefully vicious. “Verdict Waited in Carrington Will Contest,” announces a Denver Chronicle front page that somehow finds its way into Fallon’s pool house on THE COLBYS. The break in legal proceedings allows Steven, Blake and Dominique to nip over to California for Fallon and Jeff's wedding. Alexis, having already shown up late to court on DYNASTY — “It’s called making an entrance,” Krystle explains to Amanda — makes an even later one to the wedding, to the point where she doesn't turn up at all. This doesn’t prevent Fallon from telling her off over the phone for "what you did to [Daddy], betraying him like that on the witness stand.” While we learn the history of Blake, Ben and Tom Carrington's feud on DYNASTY, we see an equivalent dynamic playing out in the present between Jeff, Miles and Jason on THE COLBYS. Just as Blake was the elder brother to whom Tom left his fortune so Jeff is the elder son to whom Jason gives his watch on the morning of his wedding, leaving Miles, like Ben before him, as the younger brother out in the cold. Meanwhile on this week’s DALLAS, JR is the elder son who finally has control of his father’s oil company, "but it’s not the way I wanted to get it,” he tells his dead brother Bobby. "I’d give it back in a minute if I could have you here to fight with.” Both JR and Jason Colby find themselves being drawn back towards their estranged wives this week. “You finally have everything you ever wanted,” says Sue Ellen with regard to JR’s Ewing Oil victory. "It doesn’t mean much to me if I don’t have you,” he replies. “What is about you?” Jason asks Sable on the morning of Fallon and Jeff’s wedding. "Everything in me says no and then I look at you like this …” Just as the court case dominates events on DYNASTY, the wedding is the focus of THE COLBYS, resulting in a markedly different atmosphere between the two shows. Nevertheless, Steven Carrington has a touching scene in both episodes, each time recalling a dead boyfriend. On the DYNASTY witness stand, we see Steven Mk 2 channelling Steven Mk 1 very effectively, squirming as he is obliged to recall the circumstances of Ted’s death. On THE COLBYS, he visits his sister shortly before she marries Jeff and urges her to “hang onto him, Fallon. Every minute that you have with him is a gift — I know.” Here, he is clearly recalling the circumstances of Luke’s death at the last big DYNASTY-verse wedding. The Colby wedding takes up a lot of screen time but, by Soap Land’s standards, is surprisingly uneventful — nobody gets shot, kidnapped or jilted, or even walks out of the ceremony. It’s only after the happy couple has driven away on their honeymoon that Miles is arrested for murder. DALLAS also ends on a homicidal note with Angelica Nero stabbing stool pigeon Nicholas in a French hotel room. It’s by far the best scene of a mediocre episode. The dagger that doubles as a hair accessory and the ceiling fan that casts a strangely ominous shadow on the wall are particularly nice touches. And this week’s Top 3 are: 1 (3) DYNASTY 2 (1) THE COLBYS 3 (4) DALLAS [/QUOTE]
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