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« on: June 01, 2015, 05:26:41 PM »
Time has been rather kind to the 1991 series. And there's also a more recent target to take the heat off.
I remember the buzz about the show. An updated Dark Shadows, produced by Dan Curtis. What could possibly go wrong? Until it premiered anyway. Joanna Going and Julianna McCarthy seemed to have been reasonably well received but the rest caught major criticism. Most of it was directed at Ben Cross for not playing Barnabas exactly the way that Jonathan Frid did. The Roger/Maggie relationship was a close second. One fan (and I use the term loosely) wrote an extended piece as to how Michael T. Weiss' razor stubble was not Dark Shadows.
The major difference is that there was no internet at the type and most of these tirades took place in the fanzines. Given the erratic publishing schedule of the fanzines, the show was off the air before the zines actually saw print.