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Calendar Events / Announcements '09 I / Re: Happy Birthday! fanforever!
« on: June 18, 2009, 04:04:17 PM »
fanforever, I hope your special day is great!
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I have couple of Delft tiles myself and wish I had more, so I'm quite fond of this fireplace. I always mean to take a look at the tiles and see what pictures are on them, but then I get caught up in whatever story is going on, so I forget. Has anybody else ever taken any particular note of them?
Were those tiles made of styrofoam?
It might be fun to have a a fireplace made of fake Delft tiles with pictures of Dark Shadows scenes on them. Sort of expensive, but fun.
the whole dirt concept ... I do remember it being in other vampire lore!
Run out the passage way Charity, you twit! UGH!
Edward seems to have forgotten that he showed the one behind the bookcase to Laura when they were first married.
Would it not be more sensible to have stashed some in a safe place when you know that you are exposed.
the Old House basement ... Did we ever see dirt on that floor? Jeez!!
I just watched the show from the beginning a few months ago (including early Barney) and I am 99.9 % sure that the dirt lore was never used!
I thought the dirt thing was only significant if the vamp left his homeland - Barn never did.
Good thing they started using the vampires can dematerialize, it’s very handy when that inconvenient rooster starts up.
Anyone remember where Judith might be (though given its dawn, Edward may have taken it on himself to handle everything, and she might not know yet. Anyone remember if we have any time frame for when the body was discovered?)
Except that Edward gives Barn more credit for brains than he apparently has, thinking Barn would never leave the coffin in the same place once it was known what the hiding place was. As we know, Barnabas apparently didn’t think of that.I can't believe I'm defending Barnabas ( ), but could he have guessed that Carl would tell Trask, the one person who could obtain irrefutable proof of his vampirism before dawn, get past Magda, and find his hiding spot within a day?
Like with the werewolf, NO one seems to have thought of exploring the use of any of the probably numerous outbuildings on the estate.
Where did Magda get her hands on silver bullets.
NO ONE ever called her Mrs. Racogzy
I remember in Dracula he only needed the native earth to cross water (and I believe I remember Chelsea Quinn Yarbro using the same mechanism for her Count Saint-Germaine).
Was this the first time we heard that there were 4 secret rooms or passageways in the Old House?
IIRC, Carl was the 4th person who died because Barnabas was there. The others were Pansy Faye, Dirk, and Rachel.
We're meant to know that Barnabas is acting rashly and irrationally, since it's clear that Carl had told the secret and Barnabas didn't even find out before acting. I think all this was a combination of the fact that Barnabas's violent vampire nature was always a huge force that he could not always control, and the fact that we're all "human", and when our backs are up against the wall, often we behave out of blind panic.
If DC really saw Barnabas killing Carl in cold blood as just a practical move because of John Karlen's plans, then he truly was nuts.
You don't have a protagonist kill a man for finding out his secret life, not if you want him to stay a protagonist. Barnabas is acting as he did when he was the show's villain whom we were meant to despise.
He knows Carl is NOT going to trust him and is real unlikely to listen to him if he tries to keep him from talking. My though t is that in the back of his mind hes thinking Barn has some power to make Carl forget without killing him – IF he chooses to. My guess is that that's the life ring he clings to to keep from facing the fact that he was willing to have his own brother killed to save his hide.
my friend Linda was a DS fan, and she says she named her daughter after a DS character, Sheila. My memory must not be what it used to be, because I can't think of a "Sheila" in Dark Shadows. Help?
My goodness, we're having lots of June birthday's huh?Wait til you see August.
Once again the quick working stone mason of Collinsport has worked his magic.
We pick up with a new scene in which we find out that Barn is moving his digs back to the mausoleum...
The more Angie keeps trying to warn Barn of what will go wrong, the more I think we’re dealing with both of them being time travelers. He is bumbling around trying to piece it together and fix things, but she seems to KNOW exactly what will go wrong and keeps trying to give him warnings – which, being Barnabas, he promptly discounts/ignores.
I really like this scene between them. You can really see Angie’s pov – and why she’s so upset, even hurt. Apparently she’s been trying to be helpful, but every time it gets thrown in her face. He’s not even willing to TRY and trust her, not once – even the times when he has nothing to lose by doing so. So, she's hit the point of the heck with him, I give up, make a mess without my help then try and get OUT of it without my help.
Once the pieces slip together, Quentin sobers up real quick, and his brain kicks into action.
OK something just hit me. If he knows enough of the basic Vampire lore that he repeats in this scene, HOW did he NOT recognize the bite marks on Beth’s neck?
(And she’s got an excellent point – a lot of Barn’s troubles come from ignoring her and he’s only escaped unscathed cause she saved him).
And he finds the latch (If I remember he’s the only one discovered on his own how to do that).
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