Was about to express the exact same until I saw your comment....Ttly went over there heads the Blake was chocking A) a women B) the mother of his children C) 2 episodes later he stops by to threaten her again with "If anything happens to Krystal...i will be back to finish what I started...U do not assault or attempt to kill the mother of your children...EVER....not to mention the fact that she cld have had him arrested for assault and attempted murder as she had witnesess.
I lost count of how many people tried to strangle Alexis. You'd think someone would have come up with another method of killing her, since someone always walked in mid-strangle and rescued her. lol!!
As I recall (I could be mistaken), there were 3 people (in this order): Neil McVane (here), Kirby & Blake. Other people tried other means to kill her: 1. in the following episode (season 3 finale cliffhanger) Joseph tried to kill her by trapping her - & inadvertently Krystle - by locking them in Steven's cabin & setting it on fire. 2. Joseph tried to smother her while in the hospital recovering from burns & smoke inhalation from the cabin fire. 3. Kirby tried to shoot her (after previously trying to strangle her) twice - 1st time thwarted by neighborhood watch passing by, 2nd time Alexis talked her down from it, realizing she was incapable of doing it. 4. Sean shot her during a gubenatorial debate - the setup was such it looked like an accident. 5. Sean tried to shoot her when she was taking a bath; Dex intervened - Sean & Dex fought & Sean was fatally shot. 6. on The Reunion Jeremy Van Dorn tried to suffocate her with carbon monoxide by hog tying her & locking her in a shed with a running lawn mower.
I think a few drew a gun on her. Joan never liked action scenes so getting strangled was about as much as she would put up with. In her fights with Linda it was always a stunt double.
Man, this was really a good show. When I was a kid we had to watch whatever our parents were watching, and at first I didn't want to watch Dynasty. Then I got used to it and started to actually like it, then I got my own TV in my bedroom and watched it as I chilled out on my bed with my girlfriend, those were the days.
@youndatmonkee I think it's because it's how a child might react. She knows her number is up and it's a tactic to distract him. Running in heels is difficult though!
I was a kid when this aired on Wednesday, April 13, 1983, seems like yesterday. Where did the time go? I have the DVDs of seasons 2, 3 & 4, my fav seasons!
This wig was called The Cascade it was popular in the mid seventies along with a mark five blue lift comb & Lamaur Vit E hairspray it rocked and was guaranteed lifelike .
I wish they had done this plot a lot later so that Alexis would get a wake up call and actually develop as a character by the end of the series, maybe into a decent woman. It would be perfectly fitting for her to try to be a better person not because of altruism, but because it's a smart move and she doesn't want her ass to be murdered.
This was when Alexis was truly a villain and totally wrecked people's lives. After S4, the (I think new) writers toned her down way too much. They had her say plenty of catty stuff, but that was about it.
Not true really . In season 6 she totally went against Blake, for no good reason ( apart from having her ego bruised, ) conning him into a billion dollar debt and stealing the mansion . Plus what she did to Cassie's manuscript . And later blackening Blake's name by headlining him guilty of arson after the La Mirage fire. The writers made her so powerful that Joan was forced to tell them not to go too far.
@@memoir4you The S6 stuff was - as you mention - for no good reason. So more confused than evil. Anything she did to Cassie could be read as self-defense. Yes, what she did in S7 with the fire was certainly evil. However, that sort of makes my point. In the early seasons EVERYTHING Alexis did and said was clearly evil. There was none of this: "she's bad, but she loves her children" or "she's bad, but it's because she loves Blake." She was a total villain.
@@adamcarrington2818 when I was a kid, I thought this was her real hair & I LOVE it on her like this. I think personally, this look suits her best. I prefer her looking like this than to having short hair.
Alexis always got herself into situations where people wanted to strangle and kill her lol. Also great to see Paul Burke aka Lyon Burke from Valley of the Dolls 1967. He would really try and destroy her later on in a bizarre set up. (Whatever happened to Neil McVane anyway? Can't seem to recall if he got his comuppence)
He framed Alexis for the murder of Mark Jennings..He got convicted and got parole then came back in Season seven and blackmailed Adam to turn against Alexis in a few business deals
I'm surprised he didn't get convicted for what ruined his career in the first place (ie banging underaged vajajay). Or you know, trying to murder Alexis right here (The Dynasty Universe seems to have a peculiar idea for what constitutes an arrestable offense.)
...20 years earlier, a younger & decidedly handsomer Neal McVane (actor Paul Burke), sparred with another well dressed diva named Joan (Crawford); in yet another melodrama: Della aka Royal Bay, an unsold television pilot that aired in November 1963. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-gE7TWOa01CQ.html
WTF, Blake Stops Neil from strangling Alexis, n then 3 yrs later not only does the same, but returns days later n threatens to finish the job n none of the ole'boys affiliated with the show realized how appalling this behavior was, Neil had NO connection to Alexis, Blake on the other hand, she is his ex-wife n more importantly, they shared 4 children, he was convicted of Killing Ted Denard which he screamed to the heavens was an accident, the strangulation of his x-wife....N how does he explain that to their children "Oh, you know she was a bitch".
Dynasty/Dallas/Knots Landing/Falcons Crest weren't made for garnering acting awards. They were night time soaps. Period. Nothing else. A needed escape from the onslaught of Reagan and the "moral majority"
