BLAKE VS ALEXIS

[@tsbonner]

Blake: "Shut up and put this on!" LOL!

[@ClarenceFisher]

"I love how Alexis poses on the Couch after Blake pushes her down......Too funny." Crying hysterically, as long as he's in ear shot, THEN hissing and sneering "OH NO, BLAKE..." LOL

[@MaryBlanche]

ClarenceFisher notice how the book moves from left to right on the sofa ❤️

[@donnamiller5222]

not so cocky this time

[@adamcarrington2818]

One of the greatest scenes on Dynasty. We see the full of range of Joan Collins' Alexis here, ruthless, vengeful and amoral yet also vulnerable, hurt and desperate - all channelled, (as most of Alexis's wickedness was) not through labyrinthine JR Ewing-like plotting but through raw, spontaneous emotional violence. What is also remarkable throughout the whole scene is her totally unshakeable belief that she's justified even when she isn't, just look at the vehemence and intensity with which she insists/lies "I swear it." She's just sublime. And Blake here as righteous, indignant and enraged is her prefect counterfoil, her cruelty is as evident in his pain as it in her original criminal act. This scene has all the ingredients that show how and why Dynasty became TV dynamite.

[@ivorytower99]

I *love* the art nouveau/ victorian mirror over the console table by the door.

[@Aarona13760]

Alexis was great in season 2! One thing Dynasty did too early was kick her out of the studio. She should have stayed there at least one more season as she was in all the action on the estate.

[@MegaHeels]

She is so beautiful.

[@delidude1999]

Granted that what Alexis did was reprehensible, but did anyone ever question why a pregnant woman would go ever horse back riding? Even if there was not a lady hiding behind a tree with a gun, anbything could happen--loose gravel, a backfire, a snake,...what the hell was Krystle thnking?

[@CaptainSpalding72]

Did she know she was pregnant? Otherwise, Crystal is a dumb bitch

[@meggiealexander8804]

I thought the same thing, the horseback riding thing just seemed way too out there for my liking. When if they wanted to do a storyline with her losing the baby, she could've easily done so by tripping down the stairs or something similarly (if it was the story they were going with anyways) it just didn't add up for me.

[@catspaw3092]

That's what I call a bedroom fit for royalty.

[@shadymercury]

this is why I always say Krystle may have won most of the PHYSICAL catfights w/ Alexis, but ALEXIS won the WAR. She caused Krystle's miscarraige, Krystle & Blake could never truly proove it & nothing that Krystle would do to Alexis in the years to follow would EVER trump what Alexis did to her when it came to bitchcraft & being ruthless.

[@tanedasmith9370]

Slap her Blake, 😂😂😂look at his eyes omg....👀👀👀👀burn it Blake, I got the matches😂😂😂😂😎

[@missyadams]

I got the rope... and kerosine!

[@dreamchaser5758]

The roof! The roof is ON 🔥. We don't need no 💦 just let the mutha......oops....I digress

[@redmark19666]

Alexis has always been the Female J.R. Ewing and just what this show needed after its first season!

[@monicablom4231]

Joan was perfect as Alexis. I love this clip becasue it shows just how vulnarble Alexis is when ruthless and maybee not so vulnarble after all. I think the wink to Classic Hollywood , with the Scarlett and Rhettesque fight is on purpose as both Joan Collins and John Forsythe ( as many Dynasty guest stars) were from that era. Forsythe worked with Hitchcock amongst others.

[@augustleobaby6561]

What Alexis did was disgusting but Krystle was stupid for getting on a horse while pregnant and she knew her ass was not some young 20 something.

[@MsTexas73]

+AugustLeoBaby Krystle Carrington and Pamela Ewing...both lost babies while riding horses. Dumb.

[@bdjoh011]

+AugustLeoBaby Well she wasn't that old. She was like 40 or 41.

[@MsTexas73]

She still shouldn't have been out riding a horse while pregnant.

[@georgieorgy5589]

+MsTexas73 It's a fucking soap opera, you lethargic imbecile. It's not real. Lmao

[@georgieorgy5589]

+MsTexas73 It's a fucking soap opera, you lethargic imbecile. It's not real. Lmao

[@allanfisch]

how very Scarlett and Rhett...

[@parkguy505]

PS- Notice how the book Alexis is reading switches from being on the left side of the couch to the right mid-scene.

[@MaryBlanche]

RIP Tony 💋

[@marion90212]

actually she's in love with him still,that's why she tried to ruin him

[@trevorthompson7604]

Blake the greatest leading man

[@redmark19666]

I love how Alexis poses on the Couch after Blake pushes her down......Too funny.

[@deb310red]

"I've never stopped loving you." "I'll burn this house to the ground with you in it." Yes, Alexis reminds me of Scarlett O'Hara in this scene.

[@miamivicepastels83]

deb310red She frequently reminds me of her

[@alexisdiva9]

Notice how @ 2:07 Alexis says the name "Adam" as an undertone; watching this again shows this was a precursor to the introduction of Adam to the series (in the next season).

[@parkguy505]

I feel bad for Alexis... but she had it coming.

[@CaptainSpalding72]

Did she mention Adam here? Cool.

[@Gatsbyesque]

I realize that she's a woman desperately trying to recover her past, and regain what she's lost for so many years. But I think that is the very thing that makes her off-kilter albeit very compelling. You can tell here that her conscience is totally GONE as she pronounces, from her gut, that it was an accident. She'd swear before God and man that it was, too. From the standpoint of the viewer, this is utterly pathetic because unlike Blake, we SAW her do it. We know there is no doubt.

[@Gatsbyesque]

Alexis provoking Krystle's fall from the horse and the scenes which surround that event flat out made the character psychotic, and while I don't like that the writers did that to my favorite character, it was instrumental to both Joan's success and the show...

[@johnjohnson3709]

This would look better in black and white!

[@timriggins70]

i never realized that they started Adam's storyline back in season one. i always assumed them having another son was an idea they came up with later.

[@PungiFungi]

It is a regular practice in soaps that they drop names of unseen children and relatives so they could be follow up on later. Sometimes they do sometimes they do not.

[@michaellandes5196]

This isn't season one, but near the end of season two. After Steven #1 left the family Adam appears on the screen in the first episode of season three.

[@jbanks979]

The mother of your two......three......four.......technically 8 children with multiple actors all

[@DevilishAbstractions]

Continuity was never big on Aaron Spelling's list...Alexis throws the book down on the left side of the sofa at 0:54 but at 2:43 the book mysteriously appears on the right side. Throughout the show there were similar inconsistencies. Nevertheless, it was a great soap.

[@ClarenceFisher]

alexis should have paid for what she did

[@phoenixnyc]

She did, a bit: the ass-kicking Krystle handed her in the studio when she found out what Alexis had done.

[@marion90212]

well alexis felt betrayed by blake so all she wanted was revenge,so she justified everything bad she tried to do.not that it was right

[@karloli9948]

serious acting , great

[@stmichl9433]

I find Joan Collins is very B-grade in her acting. It's a totally old fashioned way to act. She over-emotes and over-enunciates, the way screen actresses in the old studio system used to speak. By the 1980s that style of acting was very old fashioned and outdated. It's very entertaining as far as soap acting is concerned, but she's completely over the top, and overly hammy and absurd. She's quite laughable really. That's not to say I don't enjoy watching her play Alexis, it's fun, and high camp. But as for "great acting," ummmm..... no.

[@karloli9948]

Couldn’t disagree more.

[@Hatsumeha]

02:42 what a way to land when pushed

[@ivorytower99]

Amazing.

[@marckressmann2167]

"Out for an evening stroll ?"

[@CaptainSpalding72]

Despite everything I never saw Alexis anything more than what Blake made her. He created her. He alienated her, bribed her to stay away. She is his monster. Here she merely plays his game. Sometimes she wins, sometimes she lets her emotions get in the way.

[@PungiFungi]

Alexis is either a schizo or put on a performance when it's convenient or both. She is trying to destroy Blake and yet can't have enough of him.

[@DeepScreenAnalysis]

PungiFungi She was in love with Blake always and never stopped. That was her primary motivation... her jealousy of Krystle having his love.

[@missyadams]

@@DeepScreenAnalysis she should have thought of that when she constantly cheated on him. Her ego couldn't accept Blake married again

[@user-mj8nf2vp7q]

...And her threat was not an idle one!🤔

[@Gatsbyesque]

She couldn't have even been 21 yet! She's been struggling to find herself ever since met Blake at 16. And then being the "outcast" for all those years. I think her mental state had been affected by all this. And just like a person who's mentally out of wack, she's trying to take herself back to that time in hopes of rectifying everything that went wrong. That means that if Krystle has to lose her baby and almost die, so be it.

[@Gatsbyesque]

Lol "Only human"??? This situation was demonizing, not humanizing for her. Why is it so hard to just admit that she was dead wrong, completely wrong, and that there was nothing at all redeeming about what the character did?

[@Money1806]

Don't forget crystal did have a child and whooped alexis ass on a regular basis lol.

[@phoenixnyc]

Indeed. Given the two out-and-out handing-Alexis-her-derriere sessions and the half-dozen or so times Krystle just belted, manhandled, etc., Alexis, you'd think that Alexis would exercise a little more control over her mouth where Krystle was concerned.

[@phatgirl2121]

She had a little black woman in her when it comes to whooping her ass

[@vistaprime]

the adam storyline was always implausible and they did the same implausible storyline on the silly new dynasty.

[@ariesflame85]

Alexis' horns are showing in 3:23 lol

[@AzzedineAliaFan]

LOL @ crocodile tears, she's a piece of work . . .

[@Gatsbyesque]

I realize that. What I'm talking about, though, is the INTENSITY with which she denied intentionally firing the gun. "I SWEAR IT," as though beyond any shadow of doubt! lol It's almost more shocking to watch than the act itself. Joan Collins is a phenomenal actress.

[@Gatsbyesque]

Probably the result of re-takes... Plus, if she had to fall down there, the book would probably get in the way too much. You know that Joan wasn't a physical actress, lol. I can see that bruising her on the side with nothing but that thin silk nightgown and robe to protect her delicate skin.

[@CorvetteStingray1969]

I used to be glued to the show… Now years and years later all these pathetic scenes and I just laughed… It’s still cool to watch, but man is it so fake😂 …”oh Blake, why don’t you love me anymore?? 😂

[@toyamosley1955]

Diva

[@Gatsbyesque]

True.

[@Gatsbyesque]

Alexis trying to erase Krystle out of the picture, pretend she was a faithful wife, that Blake isn't a violent and tyrannical JERK, and that she hasn't been estranged from her children for 16 years is all wacko behavior.

[@vistaprime]

Tony was a stable groom not a gardener. how'd he end up getting a job doing Cecile's landscaping.

[@alessandrarosina]

Che scena lui scopre la sua malvagità che lei ha ucciso il suo bambino e di krystle, lei dice dei loro 3 figli poi 4, lei giura vendetta assurda contro lui ma lei voleva troppo regina del jet set e infedele...

[@Gatsbyesque]

Lol... yes... psychotic.

[@whitedaisez]

Why is she so obsessed with Blake??

[@340sk]

joan collins used to be called the "poor mans elizabeth taylor" but she had the last laugh beauty wise as she retained her beauty throughout most of her life aged brilliantly and never became overweight like elizabeth taylor. she is 78 nw and stil lukin bludi gorgeous and redefining sexy for any age grp

[@WestJason9]

But for all that even 6 yrs after Elizabeth's death..Collins still stands in her shadow and will never be the star she was and remains in death

[@TheeCoachg]

A lot of that was because of the perception of TV vs Film at the time tho. By today’s standards,both women had exceptional careers...Elizabeth in film and Joan in television. Beauty wise,Joan still looks exceptional and so did Elizabeth despite many health issues. Joan Collins is more of a treasure as she gets older,she looks great and she plays up (or not) the Alexis character because its an American tv icon.

[@trevorthompson7604]

Elizabeth Taylor couldn't hold a candle to Joan Collins Taylor was a NAD actress with an annoying screeching voice

[@Noedce]

Why was she on a horse pregnant.

[@alexismorell-carrington-co6310]

Deon Dixon she wasn’t the sharpest crayon in the box

[@mickeyfletcher1630]

Alexis was something else

[@nadavno]

the birth of the she-devil alexis :-)

[@redmark19666]

Talk about the anti Luke and Laura!

[@Lovesinneedoflove]

Only reason I watched was for dominuque or Alexis they are sheer fire entertainment

[@alexismorell-carrington-co6310]

Betty Tanner thanks doll

[@AzzedineAliaFan]

YES she should have, that was totally fucked up!

[@Gatsbyesque]

LOL

[@Gatsbyesque]

She obviously cannot let go of the pain of her past. Alexis has never, ever been happy. Up until this point, the only time she can likely remember being truly happy was in her early years with Blake, before the marriage turned sour. Before Adam was kidnapped. Before Blake turned cold and started traveling to numb the pain of the loss of his son, in the process abandoning Alexis to her own grief at the mansion. But consider how young she was when all that was going on...

[@pookeeeee]

Blake couldn't act his way out of a paper bag! I could never understand why the producers of this show could not get a better actor.

[@bmasters1981]

I would have loved to have had Jack Lord as that main character-- true, Jack is more known for being Hawaii's top cop, and will always be, but I still would have loved to see Jack's Irishness in the role of that Colorado oil baron.

[@ryanlove830]

Because George Peppard didn’t want to do it because the role was too heartless

[@CaptainSpalding72]

Yes he could. He was a fine actor.

[@CaptainSpalding72]

@@ryanlove830 no. He was fired.

[@phoenixnyc]

@@ryanlove830 As it was written in season 1, it was. The Blake of Season 1 is a far cry from the Blake of the later seasons.

[@MegaHeels]

Poor Alexis. I feel bad for her

[@missyadams]

Don't! She deliberately caused Krystle's miscarriage and kept reminding her she gave Blake 4 children

[@mickeyfletcher1630]

T.v at it finest