The writer is way off base when it comes to his theories about the daytime show. He would actually do well to watch it before he jumps to conclusions about it. But that being said, I actually agree with a lot of what he's written, particularly the stuff about hoDS. It's not a secret that I'm not a fan of the film, though I'm not the only one who has said things similar to what's written - just check out several of the hoDS topics here on the forum for evidence of that. And actually, the article seems to prove one of the things I've often said and that is that many fans of the daytime show can't help but fill in a whole lot of what's missing in hoDS because they know it from the daytime show so they're much more inclined to overlook faults in the film, but someone who's never seen the daytime show isn't going to be able to fill in and that makes them more objective than many DS fans, and so the faults are often quite glaring to them, as they are with the person writing the article. (Though, of course, the fault for a lot of the flaws with hoDS can be laid right at the feet of DC and his desire to emphasize the blood and gore by cutting so much of the scripted material that would have fleshed out the characters and filled in the gaps. But that's a whole other discussion and one not suited for this topic.)
And another thing I agree with is that the majority of the people who will go to see the new DS film probably won't have previous knowledge of the original - though thanks heavens for that because there's no way the film can become a hit if only DS fans go. Most of the people who'll see it will go because they're Depp fans or Burton fans or fans of the vampire/horror genre in general. Though the article overlooks the real possibility that seeing the film might make them check out the original. But then that possibility wouldn't fit in with his attitude because he doesn't seem to have any inclination to check out the original. In fact, he seems to think the original is somehow beneath him. And that's too bad because he doesn't know what he's missing...
91 days 8 hours 20 minutes 37 seconds until the day the Depp/Burton Dark Shadows is released(ET)!!