Review Of Dark Shadows: The Beginning, Vol. 5

[Miss_Winthrop]

I for one am glad that Diana Millay was chosen to play Laura.  I think she adds 'creepy' in just the right amount for the character.  I just can't imagine Lara playing Laura just as I can't imagine any one else playing Angelique but Lara. Speaking of Lara, I just saw her recently in Race With The Devil.  I spoke with Diana Millay at a fest one year and although I knew that she knew that I was there, I still got the feeling that she was adrift somewhere in left field. 

[Mysterious Benefactor]

I for one am glad that Diana Millay was chosen to play Laura.  I think she adds 'creepy' in just the right amount for the character.  I just can't imagine Lara playing Laura just as I can't imagine any one else playing Angelique but Lara.

I feel the same way. And both women played their respective roles to perfection. Some of the best moments in DS are their confrontations in the 1897 stroyline.

[michael c]

i agree diana played laura to perfect pitch.

i wouldn't have wanted anyone else playing her.diana is laura and lara is angelique.period.two irreplaceable virtuosos.

in fact,although the pheonix's hundred year life cycle made this impossible,i would have liked to have seen much more of laura and/or diana throughout the series.

meeting diana in person is an odd experience.she definitely stays "in character" during the exchange.i've had several very strange conversations with her over the years but i think she's nice in general.during our last meeting she remembered me which i thought was nice.

does anyone know why she did not attend this year's event?

[Pansity]

Just an educated guess here,but it might be because she lives here in Westchester. Counting on my fingers I believe that Mr.Frid was the only guest this year who does NOT live in California.  I DO think I remember her being at the Hollywood Fest I attended in 05, however. 

Possibly it was felt that there were enough local guests without importing anyone other than the one major guest. (Again, just an educated guess from having been involved with guest heavy conventions in other fandoms.  I'm not involved with the Fest in any fashion to know the reasons for certain  -- though when I used my pansity email address, I was constantly getting emails and or IMs from people thinking I was pansyfaye who works for the Festival.  LOL that's why I use the quentinscockney address -- which has its own little double entendre problems.   

Jeannie

[Devlin66]

I've just gotten the first disc from Netflix

Oh that's where my netflix is...i had that on  my next up and now it says "SHORT WAIT"....hurry up and watch it Buzz and get it back in the mailbox willya?

[buzz]

Oh that's where my netflix is...i had that on  my next up and now it says "SHORT WAIT"....hurry up and watch it Buzz and get it back in the mailbox willya?

It shoud be in your hands soon. I mailed it back the other day Devlin! And I also had the "short wait" for Disc 2, so who was the wise-guy that was making ME wait?? 

[GooberCollins]

Netflix is great for TV DVDs, as long as they're not new releases. They never get enough of those in to satisfy the initial wave.

[Miss_Winthrop]

I know this is off topic but I've been meaning to say to GooberCollins that 'I love the Barnabas Avatar'..I think that's what they call the picture in your posts.   

[GooberCollins]

Thanks! I decided that, though it fit very well with my username, the vampiric Mr. Peanut that I was using was getting old, and that it would be good to change it, so I used a still from the (more than slightly silly) video I put on YouTube on Sunday, which my signature currently links to.

Anyway, I'm almost finished with Collection 5. I've watched all but the last 6 episodes of it. October 27 or whenever it is that the final collection is released is so very, very far away...

[Taeylor Collins]

I admit I am 10 eps away from [spoiler]Jostte's ghost appearance[/spoiler] and I am counting the eps. I LOVED Vol. 1 and 2 got off to a good start but I find myself getting bored. I cannot wait to see the infamous ep # 70 that started all the "spooky stuff". And I CANNOT WAIT to see THE PHOENIX STORYLINE.  Hard to believe I have been a fan for 17 years and have never seen these eps.  I couldn't bring myself to buy the videos back in the day, cause I knew one day they would be obsolete and I would have wasted all that money on them.   I am now collecting DVDS, which should be with me for as long as I am alive. I also didn't get Sci Fi either so........

Just a reminder...Deepdiscountdvd.com has Volumes 1&2 of DS The Beginning on sale for 29 bucks and now they have Volume 1. with the introduction of Barney on sale for 29 bucks also.

[GooberCollins]

I'm quite enjoying the Laura storyline. Diana Millay is quite creepy, and I find her appearance in 1967 far less irritating than the one in 1897. Though I know how it works out in the end, I am very annoyed that I must wait until October to finally see the resolution, as well as seeing the first episodes of the Jason storyline, with the first Willie.