Last night on the TiVo, Matt and I watched the famous “Moldavian Massacre” episode of Dynasty. I’d seen that it was coming up on SoapNet, so I recorded it and the following episode. I’d heard all about that famous cliffhanger, but I’d never actually seen it – I started watching the show a few months later, in early 1986, when Sammy Jo kidnapped Krystle and replaced her with her look-alike Rita. (Now that was high camp – but at 12 years old I saw it as suspenseful.)
Now, Matt often makes fun of my fondness for soaps, but he walked in toward the end of the episode last night, sat down on the couch and watched it with me, and then, at the end, when everyone was lying on the floor of the church in a pool of blood, said excitedly, “Did you record the next episode?”
So we watched the first 15 minutes and then started Lost. Interestingly, Dynasty in 1985 aired on ABC on Wednesday nights at 9. Lost currently airs on ABC on Wednesday nights at 9. How TV has changed. Or not so much.
If anyone’s interested, SoapNet is currently airing Season 6, which includes the Krystle/Rita episodes. Next Wednesday and Thursday it airs parts one and two of the two-hour special episode that launched the Dynasty spinoff, The Colbys, which my cousin and I watched almost religiously for two years before it was unceremoniously cancelled, leaving Fallon abducted by a UFO.
They royally fucked up after the massacre scene- should have killed off one or two of the major characters (e.g., Adam and Dex or Dominique) to make the massacre seem realistic.
And you called me a “strange bird”? Me? That’s the pumps calling the handbag beige, eh?
Still, I wish I had cable. :(
Wouldn’t it have been cool if years later, Mulder and Scully found Fallon on a UFO?
Re your fondness for soaps, Jeff: I was a huge fan of ‘Dynasty’, and my husband regularly used to castigate me over it. One night he said again: ‘Do we have to watch this crap?’ but 20 minutes later, he was still watching it. ‘These soaps suck you in’ was his excuse on that occasion ..