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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James from London" data-source="post: 248738" data-attributes="member: 22">The Deluge  (KNOTS, 28 Feb 85) v Denial (DALLAS, 15 Jan 82)The kings are dead, long live the kings. Denial follows The Search, the episode which ended with the Ewing brothers’ returning from the site of Jock’s helicopter crash without him. The Deluge begins with Paul Galveston flatlining, even though the character remains as off-screen as Jock Ewing has been all season. Out of the shadows steps Ruth Sumner Galveston, Paul's brand new widow (she married him on his deathbed). When Gary comes looking for him, she pretends he’s still alive, out of town on business. When Harve Smithfield tries to broach the subject of Jock’s will with his widow, Miss Ellie, she too insists that her husband is still alive. Ellie makes her case to son Bobby in an emotionally powerful scene at the end of DALLAS. “This house is still Jock’s house. This family is Jock’s family.  You’re Jock’s son. And I’m Jock’s woman. And the rules we live by are the rules he made ... He's alive, Bobby. As long as I believe he's alive, he's alive.” Emotional isn’t the word one would use to describe the reunion between Ruth and her son Greg by Paul Galveston’s open casket: chilly, irreverent, compelling and unpredictable might be better.As for who will be Jock’s and Galveston’s successors, it’s hard to say. JR, who’s interested in nothing but booze and hookers since his daddy’s death, suggests that maybe Bobby will lucky enough to cop for the lot when the will is read. Greg, meanwhile, is adamant he does not want to follow in his father’s footsteps — but doth he protest too much? “You were brought up to be powerful and you love it and you want it,” Ruth insists. “And now, baby, it can all be yours.” “Nuts to you, Mother,” he replies. "Nuts and bolts."Elsewhere on KNOTS, Joshua literally steals Reverend Catherine’s TV show out from under him with a genuinely mesmeric sermon (“It’s not the way that is difficult, but difficult that is the way”). He is as brilliantly inspiring on camera as he is jaw-droppingly megalomaniacal off. These two aspects of him are indivisible. It’s riveting to watch him interact with Abby, his boss. It would be easy for Donna Mills to simply play Abby’s superior status in their scenes together — after all, she’s the bigger star playing the more powerful character who has the stronger grasp on reality — yet Abby is as much fascinated and impressed by Joshua’s total self-belief as she is amused and irked by it.While Ellie insists that her dead husband is alive, Karen begins to entertain the idea that Val’s babies might not be as stillborn as everyone believes. “What if …?” she asks Mack. “What if …?” might well be embroidered on a tapestry hanging in the KNOTS LANDING writers room: imagine a wildly implausible scenario, then ask yourself “What if that were to happen in the relatively real world of Seaview Circle?” The ultimate “what if …?” emerges at the end of the episode when Greg is informed that whoever controls Empire Valley essentially controls the world. “Everybody is counting on you to help us out,” he is told. “Everybody. Everybody.” Gee, do you think that means ... you know ... everybody??And the winner is ... The DelugeBONUS BEATS:[MEDIA=youtube]bmf5gM94m0o[/MEDIA]</blockquote>

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