Should we have eventually found out that Alexis masterminded the Rita situation...

[Ked]

I still like the idea of Alexis hiring a second double for Krystle to misbehave around downtown Denver to impugn Krystle's credibility about ever having an evil twin at all.

Oh, that Alexis -- she's just such a bitch!!

I would have taken your idea of a half-drunk Krystle accidentally stripping Alexis at a party and have it happen around this time: Krystle is so thrown for a whirl by the whole situation that she turns to minor boozing while she and the other Carringtons are attending a party at the Fallmont Manor, and when Alexis makes yet another jab, she goes after her, but is stopped by Blake and Steven - but Krystle still manages to grab a hold of one of Alexis' straps, causing the dress to rip and fall to the floor, leaving Mrs. Colby wearing only her lingerie in front of all the partygoers.

Dominique roars with laughter and gives a toast, while Alexis shrieks in embarrassment and gathers her dress back up, screeching at Krystle, "YOU HORRIBLE SLUT!!!" only for Krystle to proudly respond, "Me? You're the one who's naked!"

Mrs. Colby leaves the party in a huff.

 

[Snarky Oracle!]

I would have taken your idea of a half-drunk Krystle accidentally stripping Alexis at a party and have it happen around this time: Krystle is so thrown for a whirl by the whole situation that she turns to minor boozing while she and the other Carringtons are attending a party at the Fallmont Manor, and when Alexis makes yet another jab, she goes after her, but is stopped by Blake and Steven - but Krystle still manages to grab a hold of one of Alexis' straps, causing the dress to rip and fall to the floor, leaving Mrs. Colby wearing only her lingerie in front of all the partygoers.

Dominique roars with laughter and gives a toast, while Alexis shrieks in embarrassment and gathers her dress back up, screeching at Krystle, "YOU HORRIBLE SLUT!!!" only for Krystle to proudly respond, "Me? You're the one who's naked!"

Mrs. Colby leaves the party in a huff.

Oh, I'd forgotten I'd posited that idea. I'd envisioned it happening in late-Season 7, after Blake & Alexis' shack-up in Singapore (when Blake begins referring to his ex-wife in subtly more humanizing terms -- but Krystle notices): an inebriated Krystle publicly de-gowns her rival with a knife at a huge gala party, and then feels kind of embarrassed about it during the next morning's hangover.

But I'd forgotten that Melissa had done exactly the same thing during her multi-season meltdown on FALCON CREST.

 

[Toni]

It would have been funny if runaways Joel & Rita had gone to Brazil and made a movie there about the Carringtons, starring, let´s say, a certain Rita, and Sonia Braga as a Brazilian version of Alexis. It would be great as a daytime never-ending soap opera... (the original one was that in Spain)

"Dinastia"
Sonia Braga como Alessia​

 

[Snarky Oracle!]

It would have been funny if runaways Joel & Rita had gone to Brazil and made a movie there about the Carringtons, starring, let´s say, a certain Rita, and Sonia Braga as a Brazilian version of Alexis. It would be great as a daytime never-ending soap opera... (the original one was that in Spain)

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"Dinastia"
Sonia Braga como Alessia​

As you likely know, ABC demanded that Joel & Rita should not be living abroad on Blake's money (the original plan). I want their car discovered in the bushes a few hundred feet below where Blake & Krystle's limo was driven off the road, up on Scorpio Curve. (Rita & Joel have been decomposing there for months).

For me, these narrative images are just more vivid in my mind than what the show actually did.

 

[Toni]

As you likely know, ABC demanded that Joel & Rita should not be living abroad on Blake's money (the original plan). I want their car discovered in the bushes a few hundred feet below where Blake & Krystle's limo was driven off the road, up on Scorpio Curve. (Rita & Joel have been decomposing there for months).

For me, these narrative images are just more vivid in my mind than what the show actually did.

I can see it now...

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[Snarky Oracle!]

... and how would Joel & Rita's Brazilian movie fare at the box-office in competition with Sue Ellen's movie??

 

[Toni]

... and how would Joel & Rita's Brazilian movie fare at the box-office in competition with Sue Ellen's movie??

Sue Ellen´s movie was shown on midnight screenings alternating with "The Rocky Horror Show": everybody in the audience knows what to do when she is tempted to drink ("no, darling, no!!"), or the moments she says "I don´t know what you are talking about"...which the public repeats, and every time J.R. says slut, they have a shot of vodka!!

This is for real, sponsored by Sue Ellen´s bar in Dallas (yasss!)​

Joel´s movie went straight to the direct-to-video section of Blockbuster (remember them?)...

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[Zara]

Hmm. That would at least had done the storyline more interesting.

Because I hate the Doppelganger-story. It's so stupid.
It's so not for that environment, the cool world of the Carringtons, and all the questions it raises. As a soap, you can and must create chaos and throw in a grenade now and then to let the outer circumstances hit the characters. But you can't let go of the ground you have already created and go totally berserk. The DG-chaos would fit Dallas better, to be honest.

But they did a good job of diminishing Krystle, making her a talking robot with a vase of flowers in her hand asking Blake if he was tired like a broken record.

Why couldn't she have been kidnapped for real, without Rita, or a dark secret from her past back in Dayton emerged and she kept this from Blake to begin with. And maybe Alexis found out somehow....or she accidentally smothered Danny with a pillow, I don't know! Just not the Rita-story.

 

[Snarky Oracle!]

Hmm. That would at least had done the storyline more interesting.

Because I hate the Doppelganger-story. It's so stupid.
It's so not for that environment, the cool world of the Carringtons, and all the questions it raises. As a soap, you can create chaos and throw in a grande now and then to let the outer circumstances hit the characters. But you can't let go of the ground you have already created and go totally berserk. The DG-chaos would fit Dallas better, to be honest.

But they did a good job of diminishing Krystle, making her a talking robot with a vase of flowers in her hand asking Blake if he was tired like a broken record.

Why couldn't she have been kidnapped for real, without Rita, or a dark secret from her past back in Dayton emerged and she kept this from Blake to begin with. And maybe Alexis found out somehow....or she accidentally smothered Danny with a pillow, I don't know! Just not the Rita-story.

I've long thought Krystle could have had a stalker, one from Dayton that had watched her from the shadows for years. Like Jamie Lee Curtis in HALLOWEEN or something (minus the Captain Kirk mask).

 

[Zara]

I've long thought Krystle could have had a stalker, one from Dayton that had watched her from the shadows for years. Like Jamie Lee Curtis in HALLOWEEN or something (minus the Captain Kirk mask).

That's a really good idea. Dark, and we could learn more about her past.

 

[Snarky Oracle!]

That's a really good idea. Dark, and we could learn more about her past.

But what if she'd been stalked by Rita??

 

[Toni]

Maybe that she got under the knife of a surgeon and he used Ursula Andress´ leftovers for her face? Too far-fecthed? Nahhh.

U: "But why did you have to take skin from here?
Actually here above my eyebrow there is a
little piece from John Derek´s leftovers!"
K: "Oh come on darling! You and I know that
what happens in the O.R. stays in the O.R.!"
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[Snarky Oracle!]

But what if she'd been stalked by Rita??

It could be like that movie THE SHUTTERED ROOM with Carol Lynley, only it's Rita -- Krystle's twin sister -- who's lived her life in an attic.

 

[Zara]

It could be like that movie THE SHUTTERED ROOM with Carol Lynley, only it's Rita -- Krystle's twin sister -- who's lived her life in an attic.

Well, a twin-sister would have made more sense.