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Message: <blockquote data-quote="rayray" data-source="post: 257521" data-attributes="member: 132">This! This! This! I stopped watching the Colbys during its initial run because I felt that we were somehow supposed to identify with patriarch Jason in a positive way, and be okay with the "Fallon imagined her Adam rape memory/made it up/poor deluded girl". It was such a marked misogynistic downslide from what might have been had the series been based on earlier, more powerful and nuanced versions of Fallon or The Patriarch (Season 1 Blake.) If only we had a Charlton Heston who was depicted as a philanderer/user, or a Fallon who was strong in ways other than "She survives tragedy." In the nuanced character category, they got Sable essentially correct in Season 2, but that was due to Stephanie Beacham's acting finesse, not the writers' initial instincts.</blockquote>