I see I'm the only one to have voted for a spinoff.
The problems with TNG approach have already been touched upon--although, as of the series end, only Quentin was still immortal. It would be tricky, albeit not impossible, to design such a show without having to deal in detail with the storylines of the original. Perhaps references to a rash of witch-hunting in the late 1700s, or things David and Carolyn simply refuse to discuss from their youth (such as David's mother!). Workable, yes. But, and this is JMHO, rather tricky to pull off.
(Hmmm...now I'm imagining David having married Amy, and that somehow he's arranged to prevent the werewolf curse from being passed down--adoption perhaps? Or a pact with gypsies? In return for what?)
Okay, this is soooo weird. Because while I was typing the above, Para L. Time posted their idea. A total coincidence, really!Myself, I've always loved the little details about the background that we never really got much information about. We know, for example, that Isaac Collins originally landed at Mermaid's Bay, south of today's Collinsport. I've often wondered what that town is like. Are there any Collinses there? Could Judah Zachary have had a disciple or two in that town? Are they still there, in one way or another? Perhaps that is where Mrs. Johnson came from? Or Paul Stoddard? Wouldn't it be interesting if one of the prominent families in that town is named
Winters? Or Bradford?
I've already kinda/sorta created my own idea of how to re-imagine the show, here:
http://www.geocities.com/zahir13/dark/dsi.htmlHonestly, I've always wondered about the Collins family when Jamison was a relatively young man, in the 1920s. Something about silent movies and the flappers, about Prohibition and the world still reeling from the first World War, coupled with excitement over discoveries in Egypt--much could be made of this.
Or what of the years between 1840 and 1897? We have two names from that era--Benjamin and Theodore Collins. But we know next-to-nothing about either one. Ah, the possibilities!