Plus, he more or less let Jason meet his death at the hands of Barnabas.

I don't agree with this part.  Willie quite frantically tried to get Jason to leave.  He mentioned that it was getting dark and kept urging Jason to go away.  He tried giving him some jewels that he had with him at that moment and tried to convince him that it was all he could do and to please leave.  Jason insisted on going further.  When he saw the coffin, he figured the jewels were there and Willie still kept pleading with him to stop.  I really don't think he could have done anything else.

My, you HAVE been busy!!    I just noticed the dual colors are back!  I'm not sure when it happened; I'm sure things were still all black when I was here a few hours ago.

Actually, I didn't even realize it!!  I had read this part, and subsequently noticed a post by ShadowsAtlanta in which the black star could slightly be seen.  I thought, "oh, on the lighter background it shows up," and suddenly realized we had the alternating colors back!!!!

Thank you, it really makes it easier to find the most recent items without spending too much time on what came before.

Well, it was interesting to see Vicki breaking the engagement because she can't marry someone who keeps secrets from her.  It's a shame, because we know the reason and why he can't tell her, but from her point of view it was nice to see her reacting like that.

Back in the days with Burke, she tried to ask him a bit about his background and he kept saying that the past didn't matter, only that they loved each other and the future.  She was quite accepting of this.

I was going to mention some continuity problems, so this seems a good place to add them.

First, the obvious kind - at the end of the episode with Elizabeth's dream and it's "repeat" in the next episode.  In Robservations, Robin says Carolyn was in nightclothes in the one and fully dressed in the next.  I didn't realize that one (!), but Elizabeth was wearing a light blue robe and there was a green blanket the first time.  When they replayed the scene at the start of the next show, she was in the bright red-pink and had "Maggie's" colorful afghan.

Why was Barney musing about the vampire disappearing after Tom Jennings, when in yesterday's episode he made it so obvious that he knew Joe was under one's power? Can't the writers remember the script from two days ago? Why didn't Barney just leave when Joe told him to and then spy on him?

That was one I had thought about.  Barnabas really seemed to suspect what Joe's problem was when he was at the house with him, but now seems to be totally puzzled by the lack of any other vampire victims.

I also found the Evans' painting to be rather funny.  Maggie showed that she had it all wrapped up for Nicholas at the time that he wrote the check for $2000.  Apparently Joe's surprise entry threw them all off.  So, he said he'd come for it at 5 the next day, at which time Maggie shows him that she has it ready (he clearly already knew that from the day before!).

Stokes really surprised me today.  The other day he tells Jeff that he knows all about the experiment and that he knows that Jeff is working on it - Julia had told him.  They then have quite a dramatic scene with Adam followed by Stokes following him to Collinwood to try to talk him into returning to work instead of going out with Vicki.  Today he seems to be surprised that Jeff is working with them.  I wondered if there could be a reason that he was pretending for Barnabas, but that not only doesn't make sense, but some of the things he says to Jeff would imply that none of the previous events had happened.

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Point of curiosity - you say that you shut down access to guests, but when I checked who was logged in, there were guests listed - at one point 3, later 2, and recently 1.

Also, in connection with that, one would have to come in as a guest first in order to sign up!

As to the number of guests, I think it makes sense in almost any forum that there are more people who come by and read but don't actually sign up or post.  And, in this case, they can still post as guests, which many have done.  And, look at how many new cousins there have been lately.  I'm sure they are former guests who decided to become part of the family.

I can't make up my mind.  The black is certainly striking and will eliminate the problem in choosing which colors will show up against which background.  I'm not sure about "our info" at the top as opposed to the side.  It might just take getting used to.

But - I find it a bit awkward to tell one post from the next.  In fact, it seems that the "personal info" for the next poster appears right with the signature part of the previous one.  The alternating colors we had before made it instantly obvious.  Perhaps you could use this black and then a dark gray for contrast.

It was the owner of the video store where we rented DS that put me on to "The Prisoner."  When we finally completed DS, we started on that.  It's a number of years ago by now, so I don't recall any specifics, but can definitely visualize the gist of the show and really liked it.