I am currently reading Harris's Southern Vampire books and thoroughly enjoying them; I've just finished Living Dead in Dallas and am about to start Club Dead. I will say that I think they screwed up the casting, though. Nationality issues (Anna Pacquin is Canadian and Stephen Moyer is British; both characters are from Louisiana) aside, that woman ain't Sookie, and that man ain't Bill. I will get the DVDs of True Blood from Netflix just to check it out, as I don't have any TV service at all right now.

I don't know if the Behind the Scenes posted earlier mentions it or not, but for those who haven't read the books, I'll explain the significance of the name. In the series, vampires have "come out of the coffin" and are now accepted (by some) as a part of society. Though it doesn't cure their bloodlust, as an alternative to feeding from humans, the Japanese developed a synthetic blood. The most popular brand of said synthetic blood is called TrueBlood. I do, however, think that the first book's name, Dead Until Dark, would have been a better title.

The Original Music from Dark Shadows. It features most of the notable score pieces, many of which have readings from Jonathan Frid over them. David Selby "appears" for Shadows of the Night. It also contains two radio interviews: the aforementioned one, and one with David Selby. It can be purchased for $9.99 on iTunes or $13.98 on Amazon.

Don't get too excited, as this all depends on what I have the ability to do, and I need to look into the matter further, but I'm considering developing a DS game on BioWare's Aurora engine, for free release, naturally.

Maybe the grandparents will like Trask. Call it the Trask Show.

I can just see my grandmother. "Go, Trask! Stake that vampire! Burn that witch!"

No, GB, I think I lost my spleen somewhere along the line. Maybe a lung, too. Oh well, I needed to clean up, anyway. Thanks for the concern, though.

To get people into DS before the new movie, we could possibly hack several websites and replace them with video of DS.

Come to think of it, that could work out of cyberspace. If you have a key to your brother's home, go in when he's out and replace all his DVDs with DS. Then lock him in when he gets home.

Precisely what I was thinking, Lydia. Imagine how much space could be saved by having an entire DVD collection on one Blu-Ray disc. I know that DS, being a show filmed low-budget in the 1960s and 70s, would likely not look much, if any, better.

Roy Thinnes as Trask. I still have nightmares about that, months after I've watched the revival.

Barbara Steele's Julia was a very different (occasionally frightening) Julia from Grayson Hall's, but I liked her. I would have liked Jean Simmons more as Elizabeth if she had been younger, as I think Jean Simmons was way too old for the part.

I thought Joanna Going and Barbara Blackburn (quick OT question: is she related to Clarice in any way?) were great as Vicki and Carolyn. We barely saw Maggie in the revival, so I don't really have any feelings about Ely Pouget.

I liked Joseph Gordon-Levitt, too. He and Henesy played David two different ways; Henesy was creepy, and Gordon-Levitt was scary.

I'm simply neutral about Michael T. Weiss.

I could rant forever about how much I hate Ben Cross in that role.

I've been curious about this, despite the fact that both the TVs in my house are SDTVs, and my players are only capable of playing DVDs. Does anyone know if MPI plans to release Dark Shadows on Blu-Ray?

Yes, but Poldark is set a couple centuries ago, right?