Die nasty....

Before I shut the TV off for the night, it was briefly tuned to the beginning of some dramatization TV-movie that's apparently about the making of the 80s primetime soap opera Dynasty. Now, that show was a staple in my household when it was on, mainly because my mother and sister loved it. I, of course, never liked it all that much, being into much more cerebral matters. (OK, I was a Dallas fan. Happy now?)

Anyhoo, even though Dynasty was pure 80s drivel (and its spinoff, The Colbys, was even worse -- there's a show that for a season-ending cliffhanger had one of its characters abducted by aliens, and this was well before The X-Files came along), there was something goofily endearing about the show -- Joan Collins's relentless overacting; John Forsythe's never-totally-successful attempts to erase the "God, I can't believe I'm doing this show" expression from his face; that odd smile that never left the visage of Linda Evans (not even when she ended up dating Yanni for a while, after the show ended). And on Dynasty, the ultimate thing was that whenever one character seriously pissed off another, the aggrieved party would solemnly vow, "I'll destroy you!" This became an in-joke in my family, like this:

MOM: Please change the cat litters today.

ME: What happens if I don't?

MOM: (eyes narrowing) Then I'll destroy you.

Not sure why I'm bothering to bring this up; it just seemed kind of funny. I hadn't thought about that show in ages.

(And tonight's TV-movie opened with the Dynasty theme tune, which I have to admit was an awfully good theme tune. So I headed over to this site to see if I could find the theme -- and they don't have it. What a betrayal. I'll destroy them!)

UPDATE: Jostein the Evil Socialist Norwegian forwards me a link to the Dynasty theme tune, thus prolonging his own life, the little scamp. Oh, the theme is here. It really is one of the best TV themes ever, in my opinion.