Forgive me, "uncreative" was the term I meant to use, not "unimaginative." As I said, Dark Shadows is a great show, and I find the fact that it openly borrowed from so many horror stories to create a very large portion of its storylines strangely endearing. Aside from that, when the Revival popped up, they didn't do enough to differentiate it from the original series, which is probably due to Dan Curtis. Sure, different cast and a few plot changes, but it was essentially the same story. But what you read about the writing staff on the internet, as well as somewhat in the PomPress books, indicates that Dan Curtis was having the writers speed-read various horror stories, and then rewriting those stories into the DS universe; not exactly an enormous sign of creativity. And let's not forget that if Dan Curtis had gotten his way and made Barnabas an all-evil vampire instead of giving into Frid and the writers, Dark Shadows likely would have gotten canceled instead of being saved by Barnabas. I'm not denying that DS had some really creative stuff in it - but I think it more had to do with other writers than with DC himself. Just my opinion.