Dark Shadows at Salon.com

[The Late Mrs. Collins]

Saw this on the newsgroup, so thought I'd pass it along.  http://www.salon.com/ent/masterpiece/2002/05/20/dark_shadows/index.html

[Cassandra]

Thank you! I found it very interesting to read!

[Dawn]

Oh, great story!  So many wonderful lines...a male Nora Desmond...bad case of the hots...too good.  Thanks for the tip.  Dawn

[jennifer]

Fun to read!
but three points
i knew a lot of boys who watched it !
TV Guide should have picked it since it has been copied
and was a first in it's top 50!
Are we addicts because we still watch it!LOL!

thanks
jennifer

[Happybat]

An interesting read.  Thanks for passing it on!  

[TERRY308]

Thank you so much for giving us this tid bit.  Julia 'has the hots' for Barnabas.....I almost fell off the chair, laughing, uncontrollable.  I started watching it when I was ten years old.   Barnabas, I've loved him ever since and I'm under his spell.

Thanks

[Luciaphile]

Thanks for sharing this link.  I enjoyed the article a lot--Salon usually has great pieces.

Luciaphil

[Philippe Cordier]

Thanks for the link.  I read Salon whenever I can, but I think I would have missed this.

[Jadine_Dru]

[shadow=Purple,left,300]Hello, Thanks for the heads-up on that article. It was worth the read.[/shadow]

[MikeS]

A very interesting article.  Thanks for posting the link.

[Philippe Cordier]

The article made some good points, but something bugged me as I was skimming it quickly last night, and it wasn't until I got home that I was able to put my finger on it.

It was the breathless (giggle, giggle!) tone that narrowed the show's interest to baby-boom teeny boppers.

As someone else mentioned, the show's audience was -- and remains  --  far more expansive than that.

What a pity.  I doubt that the article will recruit any new viewers.

When is someone going to write (and when will someone accept for publication) an intelligent commentary on some of the themes, the innovative use of classical literature, etc.?

-Vlad