Ah, you've challenged me Midnite! Okay, here's what I found incorrect:
SPOILER ALERT!!!
1. DS did not start in 1967 as he claims at the beginning of the article.
2. He claims that there are 1225 episodes LEFT from the intro. of Barnabas on, not 1225 total.
3. He claims Petofi had a brogue, gee, didn't realize he was Irish. I don't recall him having ANY accent, let alone a brogue.
4. He claims Judith feared being buried alive when it was Liz that feared this. Then says she shot her husband and buried him in the basement, again this was Liz. And Liz didn't shoot Paul, she clocked him w/a fire poker.
5. No one's husband was walled up in a basement alcove, if he's talking about Rev. Trask, who's husband was he?
6. There were no shapeshifters that I recall unless he's talking about the Leviathans, and none of them had brothers who were walled up in the West Wing.
You're right here, Buzz, a few details aren't perfect and he was off by about half a year and a couple of hundred episodes, though I don't agree with your original comment that the article was "filled with inaccuracies." And since it was written as his tongue-in-cheek interpretation of the series and not as a timeline, I think it was generally right on the mark. The author is obviously a fan who has seen the series more than once but confuses a few of the events as most fans often do. After all, the
DS Program Guide tells us that Lamar Trask was shot, and I won't even get into the errors in KLS' books. So I can't say I'm surprised that this guy would think Liz shot Paul, or that he mixed Gregory Trask's fate up with his great-great-grandfather's (or great-grandfather's, depending on which DS scene you choose to believe; even the show's writers got tripped up on their own details).
But I am thrilled to have offered you a challenge and honored that you took me up on it!
I'm pretty sure the author didn't say that Judith feared being buried alive. It was a paragraph about the head of household, and while he never mentioned any names he seemed to go back and forth between Judith and Liz.
As for Petofi, he described him as a "Hungarian diplomat with a Carnaby Street fashion sense and thick-tongued brogue," an interpretation I found hilarious. But then again I'm easily entertained.
Werewolves are shapeshifters, btw.
7. Angelique was not left at the alter, Barnabas married her.
That one drove me nuts. Yes, Barnabas did marry her before dumping her. But the line reminded me of an experience at a wedding shower years ago where I played one of those lame party games, and in this case it was a word scramble of terms relating to a wedding in which the letters in one entry were something like TALRE, and I could NOT get that the answer was ALTER, nor did the bride realize that weddings take place at an ALTAR.
Getting back to the article, one thing that stumped me was "closets containing entry to hidden horrors." Unless he's thinking of the Narnia books
, was he perhaps interpreting the I-Ching door in the basement to be a closet? Or the dream curse doors? Am I forgetting something?
But anyway, it was refreshing to read a new take on the series as well as an article that doesn't refer to a rabid fan base or use that blasted c-word! (Camp, that is.)