there is a long thread in which many of us commented on what we thought a 'new' DS should look like.
The general consensus was that a re-make of the old was impossible, but a "next gemneration" was a good idea.
The discussion you're referring to can probably be found pretty easily by anyone who's willing to invest some time using the forum's search feature.
But there are actually numerous topics on the forum dealing with a new DS because it seems like we have the same discussion (Dark Shadows: The Next Generation - GOOD, Dark Shadows: The Retread - BAD) every time the possibility of a new DS project gets announced or even hinted.
The first batch that I'm aware of: three threads dealing with a proposed new DS on FOX:
The first, "
DVDs and a New DS," from back in January 2002, is the 6th topic down on page #18 of the board Current Talk I in the General Discussions Archive. A second, "
Prediction re: New Series," is currently ("currently" because I haven't gotten around to changing over the posting dates in the database for this topic from the dates Midnite or I had transferred it to the YaBB SP version from the eboards4all version of the forum back before the SP version had officially opened) the 15th topic down on page #15 of Current Talk I. And a third, "
NO NEW DS, MAYBE FOR THE BEST," is currently the 11th topic down on page #13 of Current Talk I.
Frankly, I'll be surprised if the new one currently being created isn't a "next generation" concept.
You know, who knows? :- The first announcements for this latest possibility all stated that Barnabas was to be a central character. Perhaps, if the series does actually pan out, we will get sort of a next generation concept, but apparently it wouldn't seem to be a sequel to the daytime series in, say, the same fashion that Star Trek: The Next Generation was a sequel to the '60s Star Trek on NBC. Well, unless ol' Barn time travels to the future or some such. Or better yet, somehow Barn got rechained in his coffin, gets released again, and events start all over again with a new generation of Collinses who know nothing about him.