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Current Talk '03 I / Re:IMHO...
« on: April 23, 2003, 05:26:49 PM »
Robin,
     I don't want to repeat what dom said but I also think I have seen the show and forget that I actually just read Robservations instead.  A real sanity saver when you forget to set the VCR.  Thank-you, you are a real dear. :-*

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Current Talk '03 I / Re:Voom...Voom
« on: April 23, 2003, 03:23:01 PM »
Luciaphil,
     Vicki was driving when Barnabas was in his first car accident.  You remember,  she was trying to run over Jeff Clark and hit a poor tree instead.
     In his second accident,  he tells Elizabeth that he was cleared of any fault.  Odd,  I have been living in Maine for fourteen years and never believed it was legal to drive on the sidewalk.
     

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Current Talk '03 I / Re:Chris Jennings, Were-STUD
« on: April 20, 2003, 03:12:41 AM »
Thanks, Raineypark.

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Current Talk '03 I / Re:Chris Jennings, Were-STUD
« on: April 20, 2003, 02:59:20 AM »
Quote from: Gothick on April 20, 2003, 01:41:17 AM

Ladies, do we have our Easter bonnets steamed out for tomorrow's rotogravure?

Gothick

Gothick,
     I have not worn an Easter bonnet since my mother made me wear one that looked like a white bullet ringed with flowers.  I looked like a real conehead or something that kinda fits with this thread.  By the way, what is a rotogravure?

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Calendar Events / Announcements '03 I / Re:OT: Joan Bennett Movie This Wednesday
« on: April 20, 2003, 02:49:34 AM »
Luciaphil,
     I kinda enjoyed the movie.  It was a cold, gloomy day.  I fixed a cup o' tea and relaxed.  I thought the scene where Ryan tried to prove Bennet 's husband was not blind very creepy.  I thought Ryan had killed him.  Perfect movie for a dreary day.
     Thanks for mentioning Irene Ryan.  I would have recognized her but not realized who she was.

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Current Talk '03 I / Re:Dan Curtis' Alternative to Leviathan
« on: April 19, 2003, 09:35:31 PM »
Quote from: ProfStokes on April 19, 2003, 09:30:55 PM
I think Curtis must have been describing the mummy Kharis.  Boris Karloff's Imhotep from the original Mummy film was highly crafty, insidious, and powerful, and he did not limp about.  If the writers had been able to develop a mummy character along this line, I think it would have made quite a formidable adversary.  A mummy storyline might also have led to a 1920's flashback, the time when many excavations occured.  Too bad it didn't happen...

ProfStokes

     This would have been so good, Prof Stokes.  If you write fan fic about this, I would love to read it.  The 1920's would have been a perfect venue for Quentin.

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Current Talk '03 I / Re:Most Precious Possession
« on: April 19, 2003, 09:24:25 PM »
  Paul Stoddard was more than happy to leave his crying baby behind.  He seemed like the type to sell her to the gypsies.  However when payment came due, she was his only friend.

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Current Talk '03 I / Re:Dan Curtis' Alternative to Leviathan
« on: April 19, 2003, 06:27:14 PM »
Quote from: Raineypark on April 19, 2003, 06:08:23 PM
And all a werewolf does is sprout hair and howl!!

Why such a narrow take on a part of his own genre?

He could have brought in a dashing young Egyptologist....or a beautiful young woman descended from a Pharaoh's line.  Think of it!...jewels, sarcophagi, hieroglyphs, ancient papyrus scrolls.....

Oh,wait.  That sort of stuff would have cost money.

I think I just answered my own question. [smrtasb]

     I think they could of done this on the cheap.  Gaudy jewelry was sold at every dime store in the country.  My grandmother had quite a bit of it.  The one thing in short supply was DC's imagination.

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Luciaphil's Idle Thoughts '03 / Re:Idle Thoughts--Reunited and It Feels So Bad (4/18/03)
« on: April 19, 2003, 05:37:32 PM »
Luciaphil,
     Wonderful column.  I am glad Rainey mentioned the eyebrow thing.  I noticed it with Pansy and thought it was the characters heavy touch with the make-up but then it showed up on 1969 Carolyn.  She needs to have her eyebrows thinned up and a lighter shade of pencil.  They look like Rainey said.  They would be great on a man's upper-lip but on a women it looks bizarre.
     I understand the hero worship Carolyn has for her father.  I know from personal experiece.  However,  if she is given the chance to know him as an adult she would become painfully aware of his faults.  Unfortunately,  she doesn't get the opportunity.  I hate those reunion programs.  The ones where the children search for their absent father and swallow the sob story.  I feel like screaming "Wake-up and smell the coffee!".  I do the same thing when Carolyn talks about her father.  I was annoyed with her when she believed Jason about her father.  I think she let Paul off the hook too soon.

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Testing. 1, 2, 3... / Re:AOL 8
« on: April 15, 2003, 01:45:58 AM »
Quote from: Connie on April 14, 2003, 10:42:58 PM
Quote from: onyx_treasure on April 14, 2003, 02:23:10 PM
Connie,  I have also been getting disconnected alot.  Do you have trouble getting on line in the first place?


YES.  Same here.  The numbers won't go through, or else it's disconnected almost immediately.  Hardly ever happened with AOL 4.  They're horrible.  Also, I thought (ha- stupid me) maybe by upgrading I'd be able to get rid of some of the junk mail.
No way.  Doesn't matter how much you report it or block an address.  There are 20 more new ones to replace that one.  It's an endless stream and there's no way to filter.  I sit here just clicking the delete key as it scrolls up through all the junk and forwarded mail and problem is......sometimes my eye doesn't catch something that shouldn't have been deleted!

I'd LOVE to use a different service.

[uzi]
     Thank-you, Connie.  My husband read your reply.  He re-installed AOL 8 and it works.  It works just as crappy as ever.  He promises me he will look into Earthlink.  I hate to nag but sometimes it is the only way.

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Current Talk '03 I / Re:Does He or Doesn't He?
« on: April 14, 2003, 02:39:39 PM »
Quote from: dom on April 14, 2003, 09:47:48 AM
I don't think Stokes would have helped Barn and Jules if he knew what was really going on and what awful things each of them had done (and would do). I think he had too strong a sense of morality. It was best he be kept somewhat in the dark about things.

dom

     I don't know how strong Prof. Stokes sense of morality is.  He hid Adam knowing what he probably was capable of.  He placed a phone call to his doctor about Adam's gunshot wounds and said he was sure of the doctors discretion.  Any other doctor he knew who was ethical would have reported the gunshot wounds to the police.  He acted as if he knew the doctor well enough to know he would not report Adams injuries.  Why would Prof. Stokes have such a relationship with a doctor?

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Testing. 1, 2, 3... / Re:AOL 8
« on: April 14, 2003, 02:23:10 PM »
Quote from: Connie on April 14, 2003, 10:47:48 AM
Quote from: MsCriseyde on April 13, 2003, 07:40:07 PM
Turns out AOL just redistributed the existing web space across a larger number of screen names, meaning less web space per screen name. Several pages and images were lost in the process.

Aw gee - thanks for telling me NOW.  LOL
I upgraded a couple of weeks ago, mainly 'cause I thought there would be more space, plus my little one wanted his own screen name.  Don't like it at all -- logon screen is a cluttered mess and we're getting disconnected A LOT.

     Connie,  I have also been getting disconnected alot.  Do you have trouble getting on line in the first place?  My computer cycles through all the available numbers about eight times before I get connected only to be thrown off in 2 minutes.  Sometime, the aol page does not completely load.  I am trying to convince my husband to change to another internet provider.  HAS ANYONE HAD THE ABOVE DIFFICULTIES WITH AOL?  Any help you can give, I will pass along to my husband as proof that AOL service is crap.

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Current Talk '03 I / Re:Leviathan....the beginning of the end?
« on: April 11, 2003, 06:54:14 PM »
Quote from: Joeytrom on April 11, 2003, 05:25:43 PM
The writers had a golden opportunity for some real soap opera with the return of Paul Stoddard.  If they had allowed for that to be separate from the Leviathan plot, it may have been better off.

     This aspect of Dark Shadows has always disappointed me.  It would have made for some great character development and continuing storylines to have Paul Stoddard be an integral part of the show.  I would have loved to see the writers explore the relationship dynamics between Paul Stoddard and Elizabeth, Roger, and Carolyn.  The writers seemed to focus so much on the supernatural they forgot about the human side.  Jonathan Frid said in an interview(on one of the videos) that the show just ran out of gas.  Well, if they didn't put the pedal to the metal and took time to develop the characters the show would have had more natural plot development which would have been character driven and not plot driven.

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Current Talk '03 I / Re:Getting the heck out of 1897!.....
« on: April 10, 2003, 05:20:00 PM »
     Now, how in the heck is Barnabas going to get the heck out of 1897 if his astral self joined him in 1897(thanks to Edward tossing the I-Ching wand off the table)?  I know the Leviathans transport the alter to 1969 so I guess Barnabas went along for the ride.  Anyway, just how did Barnabas think he and Josette were going to magically go to 1897?
     Travel to the future using the pull from people from the past(ex. Barnabas going back to save Victoria or Peter Bradford getting pulled back), I-Ching wands, Portraits pulling you in, and a staircase.  I can't think of any other ways at the moment but if time travel was this easy Barnabas should have gone back into the past to make sure he avoided Angelique in Martinique.  ::)

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Calendar Events / Announcements '03 I / Re:Today's Birthday Wishes Go Out To...
« on: April 10, 2003, 02:53:52 AM »
     Happy Natal Anniversary!  Spring is a great time to have a birthday. :-*

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