I actually like the beginning of the Adam storyline. I just watched it all the way through for the first time since I first saw it on the Sci Fi Channel years ago. I feel really sorry for him in the beginning, and I thought that Barnabas and Julia handled it all very badly. Then there's the classic scenes between Adam and Willie (the chicken leg!). I thought Robert Rodan did a really good job and also thought that a lot of his scenes with Nancy Barrett were really sweet and sad. I think in the end that the storyline just went on for too long, and it did get tiring seeing Adam being a jerk and kidnapping Vicki too many times, although I stil always felt that Adam was completely justified in being a jerk--he was treated really badly by Barnabas and Julia, the two people who brought him to life. I do see though, as mentioned above, how the storyline really veered away from what the show had been like up until that point, and it really isn't as compelling, although Nicholas Blair is one of my favorite DS characters, and I really enjoyed Marie Wallace as Eve--she really seemed to enjoy the part! I guess one of the things I love about DS is that even when there's a storyline that I don't llike that much, there's always something else going on at the same time that makes it worth it. Right now I'm at the beginning of the Quentin's ghost storyline, and while Amy's high-pitched over-emoting really gets on my nerves (if she just didn't seem like she was yelling all of her lines!), I love the storyline with Chris/the werewolf and the last episodes with Joe Haskell (great work by Joel Crothers!).