Picture it: December 23, 1987. You’ve been waiting all summer for the season premiere of your favorite show, Dynasty. What outrageous slapping fights will the obscenely wealthy Carringtons get into this time? What giant-shouldered Nolan Miller gowns will Joan Collins strut around the mansion wearing? Will they just let the Stephen character be gay for once in his life?
The show starts. They’re doing the recap from last season. You see all the familiar scenes of weddings and arguments and secret rendezvouses from last season. And then, mixed in the middle of the recap, one of the characters is shown stepping onto a spaceship.
Wait, what?
It’s true —