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Current Talk '24 I / Re: (**NEW Photos/Michelle Pfeiffer Interview In The April W!!** Reply #3083 ) Depp/Burton DARK SHAD
« on: March 28, 2012, 08:37:43 AM »To me, there will only ever be one Dark Shadows. All others, past and future, will be their own entities. They may have similar elements to the original, but none will ever be as special or as wonderful as the series that ran from 1966 through 1971.
I may like this new film or I may not. Whether I do has very little to do with the original series, though. Because it is that show which has provided me endless enjoyment, helped me through some hard times, and remains one of the only programs I will watch over and over again for the rest of my life.
I hope I can find some way to enjoy this new film. But if I don't, it doesn't affect how I feel about the original.
Back in '04 when the WB pilot was in development, I made the following post:
Of course, it's completely understandable to believe that nothing can ever come close to recapturing the same magic of the original DS. But at the same time, there's no reason not to believe that something different, but possibly equally special could potentially be created - not to replace the original - but to coexist alongside it. That's the way I see the '91 series, and I'm hoping a WB DS might turn out to be something even more interesting.
And that's the way I'll continue to approach every new version of DS that might come along. Though in the case of the new film, it's not going to be anything like the '91 series or what a WB DS might have been. But that doesn't necessarily mean that it can't be enjoyable in its own right as a very different version of DS...
43 days 20 hours 22 minutes 17 seconds until the day the Depp/Burton Dark Shadows is released(ET)!!