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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James from London" data-source="post: 25610" data-attributes="member: 22">16 Apr 86: DYNASTY: The Cry v. 17 Apr 86: THE COLBYS: A Family Affair v. 17 Apr 86: KNOTS LANDING: A Change of HeartDYNASTY’s Krystle and KNOTS LANDING’s Mack each occupy the same role this week, that of a loyal-but-concerned spouse watching from the sidelines as their other half works around the clock, searching for a solution to the predicament in which they now find themselves. While Blake works frantically to raise the money he needs to take over Colby Co, Karen is desperately looking for a way to clean up the pollution at Lotus Point.Just as Krystle assures Blake that “there are people here who know what kind of man you are, who’ll stand by you and love you,” Mack praises Karen for having “the willingness to go to the mat” for her principles and beliefs. “I lie awake at night,” Krystle tells her husband, "watching you try to sleep. You toss and you turn.” “If you’re gonna sleep, why don’t you try it at home?” Mack suggests when he finds Karen resting her head on her office desk.“Dreams are about anxieties,” suggests Olivia Cunningham on KNOTS. Recent Soap Land scenes, such as those on last week’s DYNASTY and FALCON CREST where Blake Carrington and Maggie Gioberti each awoke from a nightmare related to their current storyline, seem to bear out this theory. This week, it’s the turn of Olivia herself. Her screams upon waking from a dream in which she has witnessed her childhood teddy bear being torn in two are the most piercing since Sue Ellen’s on DALLAS following her nightmare about JR snatching John Ross away from her earlier in the season. KNOTS being KNOTS, Olivia is able to put her hysteria to one side long enough to analyse her own subconscious. “I guess the dream was about the divorce,” she concludes, referring to Abby and Gary’s split.Karen also talks about dreams in this episode of KNOTS, this time in the aspirational sense of the word — but like Olivia, with a degree of self-awareness that is specifically KNOTSian. “I look at this,” she says, surveying the contaminated land at Lotus Point, "knowing what it could have been, and I keep thinking, 'There goes my dream.' And it embarrasses me … because it’s corny. I’ve never had a dream. I’ve had opinions, causes, beliefs … but never one focused vision, never anything as corny as a dream, until Lotus Point.”Dreams and showers — as this particular Soap Land season nears its end, it’s hard not to look for significance in scenes involving either. Last week, Ben Gibson and Mark Graison each partook of a hairy-chested rubdown and this week, Jeff Colby, having spent the night in jail, is anxious "to wash off the stink of that place.” Just as last week’s equivalent scene on DALLAS ended with Pam joining Mark in the shower for a sexy smooch so this one concludes with Fallon doing the same thing with Jeff. The most notable difference is that Jeff and Fallon's bathroom appears to be at least three times the size of Pam’s.Following closely on the heels of Jeff and Fallon on THE COLBYS and Angela and Peter on FALCON CREST, KNOTS LANDING’s Laura and Greg become the latest Soap Land couple to tie the, er, knot. Even though we don’t see the ceremony itself (which takes place in a Vegas wedding chapel), this is the by far the most satisfying wedding of the three. There is much to enjoy — from Greg’s funny yet touching speech to Laura outside the chapel (“I l-l-l-love you”) to the reactions of the rest of the characters to the news (tight smiles from Karen and Abby, dismay from Jason) to Laura’s encounter with her new husband’s lawyer who tries to get her to sign some kind of post-pre-nuptial agreement. (“You can guarantee marital harmony with a contract? My, my, my, my!” she quips airily.) There are also the unpredictable twists and turns of the relationship itself. “Married less than twenty-four hours and you’re already trying to redefine my conscience,” says Greg after Laura requests, as a wedding present, that he foot the bill for the Empire Valley/Lotus Point clean-up. “What I do need — a memo confirming every conversation you and I have, proving who said what?” she later asks him, when she realises Greg has little or no intention of doing what he led her to believe he would.THE COLBYS’ Sable and KNOTS LANDING’s Abby each displays a softer side towards her estranged husband this week. While Sable appears contrite (“I’ve made some pretty bad decisions and I nearly lost Jason over them, but that’s all over”), Abby seems unusually vulnerable. “I’m a little scared,” she tells Gary. "I made a bargain for some land that turned out to be totally polluted, I’m getting divorced — Lotus Point is all I have. I don’t wanna lose it.” It soon becomes clear that both women have ulterior motives, however. Combining the clinginess of Val Gibson with the brazen determination of her cousin Alexis, Sable first wheedles her way back into Jason’s bed (although nothing sexual occurs between them) and then invites herself along on a plane ride to Greece with he and Frankie. Abby, meanwhile, persuades Gary to "slow down" their divorce. Whereas Sable’s real agenda is transparently obvious — she wants a reconciliation with Jason and to sabotage his relationship with her sister along the way — Abby’s is harder to read.The best scenes in this week’s COLBYS and KNOTS are office confrontations that begin similarly. On THE COLBYS, we first see Jason glaring across his desk at someone offscreen, his hands clenched. He then swivel rounds in his chair so his back is to the camera. “I’ve got a deal for you,” he tells his unseen visitor. We then cut to a shot of Jason’s front which reveals Zach Powers sitting in the background.  “Well, then I’m glad I accepted your invitation to stop by,” Zach replies smoothly. The equivalent scene at the end of this week's KNOTS starts with a profile shot of Greg Sumner lighting a cigar. “I didn’t think you’d show,” he tells his unseen visitor. He then takes a step to the right. The camera follows him to reveal … Karen Mackenzie standing in his office. “To tell you the truth, I’m desperate. I’d go anywhere or talk to anyone,” she admits, far less smoothly than Zach.Jason and Greg each make their guest an attractive-sounding proposition. “How would you like the Carrington oil, all of it?” Jason asks Zach. "I’m willing to clean up Empire Valley and Lotus Point … spend an unspeakable fortune and make the place perfect in four months,” Greg informs Karen. In each case, inveitably, there’s a catch. “You let my boys off the hook on those phoney murder charges,” Jason tells Zach. "I want Empire Valley. Your job ... is to get it for me,” Greg explains to Karen.While KNOTS ends with Greg’s ultimatum left hanging in the air (“Get me Empire Valley or you can kiss Lotus Point goodbye”), the situation on THE COLBYS is more complicated. Zach insists he has got nothing to do with Miles' and Jeff's arrests. He also finally reveals his grudge against the Colbys. “It’s very simple. You killed my father,” he tells Jason. "He was an insect for your father to crush without even realising it … The great Colby conglomerate swallowed him up and took everything.” In other words, it's Peter Hollister and Jill Bennett on KNOTS all over again ("Galveston destroyed our parents. They were a business obstacle to him yet he killed them as sure as if he held a gun to their heads and fired.”) When Jason objects that he personally had nothing to do with what happened to Zach’s father ("My God, I was a kid!”), Zach’s reply — “And the father's sins are visited on his sons” — is pure Soap Land logic. It also mirrors Greg’s connection to the contamination at Empire Valley. “Your father is responsible for dumping that stuff there in the first place,” Karen reminds him.And this week’s Top 3 are …1 (4) THE COLBYS2 (2) KNOTS LANDING3 (1) DYNASTYYes, I remember that too. Let me see if I can find it. Hang on ...Here it is:As the body bag containing Gary’s corpse indicates, ranches can be dangerous places. Similarly on EMERALD POINT, bad girl Hilary pulls an Alexis and arranges a horse-related miscarriage for good girl Kay in her father's stables. In both instances, there is a twist: the body in the bag is not Gary’s and Kay was never pregnant in the first place.</blockquote>

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