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Current Talk '13 I / Re: Continuing the journey....Episode 2, 1991 revival.
« on: January 12, 2013, 04:41:31 PM »Really, was it necessary for DC and the writers to rehash a lot of the elements of HODS into the first two episodes of the series? As I say, I am a big fan of HODS, but I see no reason why they couldn't have introduced Barnabas and the characters into the show with some more original material.
The sad thing is that DC had freely admitted that he didn't have an original thought in his head when it came to DS. Anything that was a new twist in the '91 DS came from the writers who took over after the DC, Steve Feke, Hall Powell & Bill Taub scripts. And that's but one of the reasons I was very happy that DC wasn't to be all that closely involved in the potential '04 DS.
All that being said, and as I've mention before, it's very interesting to note that when the first three eps were combined for the "miniseries," many critics said they enjoyed the second night (Eps #2 and #3) more than the first night (the pilot) - but I supposed that could easily be because they had never seen hoDS, so, unlike those of us who had, they had no idea what was going to happen and that what did happen was quite often a word-for-word, shot-for-shot rehash of hoDS (and some of DC's 1974 version of Dracula).