Regarding Vlad's post about 91's Angelique:
This is about the only thing I can remember, without prodding, from the 91 series. And I probably just happened upon it while channel surfing one night. This was probably the proverbial last straw for me. Way over the top, but I was probably and unfairly (if not, subconciously) comparing it to the more subdued style of the original.
I was going to mention in an earlier post that I hoped they would avoid these types of (what I consider) perposterous special effects in the WB version.
MB, I know you liked the 91 series. How did you feel about this particular scene?
I honestly thought it was used quite effectively. It was far more interesting than simply having Angelique's head appear in the flames, as was the case when she was summoned to 1897 by Quentin and Evan. (Though, that being said, that effect was quite good for its day.)
And if I may ask, did they use a lot of up to date special effects in the series?
Not really. And mostly everything involved Angelique and was a reworking of the same effect.
There was that scene in Episode #4. One spectacular scene in Episode #6 in which Angelique's ghost appeared to Barnabas, Julia, Willie and Sarah at the Old House:
In Episode #9 when the "bat" attacked Barnabas in 1790 (which I thought was a brilliant reworking of the way it occurred in the original) and Ang's ghost taunted him:
And in Episode #10 when Ang's ghost explained the curse: