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Current Talk '08 II / Re: Movie Cast Ideas
« on: July 10, 2008, 12:28:50 AM »
As much as I would love to believe that, I'm very skeptical of Wikipedia in instances like this.

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Testing. 1, 2, 3... / Re: Latest Windows Update an Internet Killer?
« on: July 10, 2008, 12:17:14 AM »
Thankfully, the update did not kill my computer's internet access, as I use McAfee for my internet security.

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I like both Paige and Prue about equally; I just think that the writing got a little sloppy around Season 6.

I consider every season of Buffy except 1 and 4 to be my favorite season.

I can bitch about most every network until the cows come home, but The WB gets the most of it.

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Current Talk '08 II / Re: Tim Burton REMAKE/RE-IMAGINING report card
« on: July 10, 2008, 12:03:07 AM »
Dang, now I need to add the Burton Batman films to my Queue. I believe I've seen all of his films except the two Batman movies and Planet of the Apes.

I also need to see more of Guiellermo del Toro's films, as I've only seen Pan's Labyrinth (which I think was probably one of the best movies I've ever seen; not one I care to see again, though, as it was pretty depressing).

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Current Talk '08 II / Re: Movie Cast Ideas
« on: July 09, 2008, 11:55:40 PM »
I feel Anne Hathaway is absolutely perfect for Vicki.

I also like the idea someone posted before of Ashton Kutcher as Quentin. If Demi Moore played Elizabeth, that could be an interesting dynamic. [ghost_cheesy]

I don't know the actor's name but the actor who plays Langley on The X-Files and The Lone Gunmen looks a lot like Louis Edmonds. Considering we know X-Files creator Chris Carter was a Night Stalker fan, it's not that farfetched to guess that he might have watched DS as well. Or maybe it's just a weird coincidence that a man who looks remarkably like Louis Edmonds played a character named Langley, who knows?

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Current Talk '08 II / Re: Convincing someone to watch DS!
« on: July 09, 2008, 11:49:34 PM »
Thanks to everyone. :)

I can't believe some people believe Buffy is too old.

I apologize, I phrased that poorly in my last post. They just won't watch the show for whatever reason; it's not because it's too old for them. Some of them have caught the reruns occasionally due to my prodding, but I've failed to convince anyone to actually get the DVDs and watch the thing straight through.

As per Garth Blackwood's question about whether or not I watched AYAotD? in syndication or not, I'm not sure, but I likely did. I watched it on Nickelodeon in the late 90's; I'm not sure precisely how old I was. In an interesting parallel to DS, despite my having been born more for the time of the second Midnight Society on AYAotD? I always preferred the first one, and despite being born closer to the DS revival, I've always preferred the original.

MagnusTrask, I thoroughly agree. It was an enormous annoyance to me whenever I saw in someone's profile something like, "Don't contact me in a private thread if you are under the age of 18." And it certainly couldn't be that they only wanted to discuss more adult topics, as that site had fairly strictly enforced rules against that.

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Testing. 1, 2, 3... / Re: Latest Windows Update an Internet Killer?
« on: July 09, 2008, 04:53:04 PM »
I'm not a big conspiracy theorist or anything, but I tend to believe that Microsoft and other companies do intentionally screw up competing products. Apple is a little better, but not much, and aside from that, I'm too hooked on The Sims, Morrowind, and Half-Life to consider using a non-Windows OS. [ghost_mad] I also only have basic knowledge of computers, so Boot Camp isn't an option.

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Current Talk '08 II / Re: Vampire Angelique's Reflection
« on: July 09, 2008, 04:49:56 PM »
Think of the problems that could result from Barnabas lending someone his coat.  [ghost_tongue2]

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Current Talk '08 II / Re: Convincing someone to watch DS!
« on: July 09, 2008, 04:46:03 PM »
Thanks, JS.  [ghost_smiley]

In response to Gothick, I'm still considered something of a weirdo by some people for liking what I like. "You're 14, shouldn't you be watching Nickelodeon, not 40-year-old soaps?" Personally, I think that family networks would do well to have programming like DS. I've attempted to watch the current lineups, and one of the (many) despicable things about them is that there's not enough "spooky" programming for children. Kids of the 60s watched DS, and I, as a kid of the 90s, watched Are You Afraid of the Dark?. There are no "spooky" shows on now that are really appropriate for children. Though DS wasn't a children's show by any means, the millions of people who "ran home from school" certainly liked it, and, with the possible exception of things like the Head of Judah Zachery (which would have traumatized me when I was 7 or so), it wasn't really too intense for them, in terms of themes, violence, or sexuality. But I'm getting off-topic here.

I agree that DS has a timeless quality, especially since they did so many of the arcs set in the past. The only ones that I really think are dated are the Leviathan, 1970PT, and Ghosts of G&D arcs, where you occasionally hear slang words circa 1970, like "groovy," being used by hipsters like Hallie, Bruno, and Sky.

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I'm doing my voting now, and plan on doing it every day. I'm voting primarily for DS, but I'm also voting for Joss Whedon's shows and Northern Exposure, as I love them, too.

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Current Talk '08 II / Re: Vampire Angelique's Reflection
« on: July 09, 2008, 04:12:09 PM »
There is the possibility that some kind of anti-reflection chemical ekes out of vampires onto their clothing.

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Current Talk '08 II / Re: Convincing someone to watch DS!
« on: July 09, 2008, 04:05:39 PM »
Heh, I'll be considered a 14-year-old old fart when the movie comes out. I'll likely spend most of my time complaining about how *pulls out cane and uses old man voice* "there's no Dark Shadows but the original, and there's no Barnabas but Jonathan Frid, you whippersnappers with your Tim Burton and your Johnny Depp!"

you are far more sophisticated & eloquent than I was at 14~~you're even moe eloquent than I am now at 52!
To hell with the judgemental bastards~~glad you're here!
Thank you very much, David! I really appreciate that.

I was at a library once where I used to live checking out some DS videos and the librarian said she remembered the show and it not being really scarry at all. I guess some people just don't get it  [ghost_tongue]

No, apparently they don't, if they thought that the point of the show was terror. It was a show about people more than it was about horror.

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Current Talk '08 II / Re: Vampire Angelique's Reflection
« on: July 09, 2008, 03:33:57 PM »
That works for Nicholas's Magic Mirror, but Jeff shouldn't have been able to see Angelique in the lab's mirror.

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Current Talk '08 II / Re: Convincing someone to watch DS!
« on: July 09, 2008, 03:31:56 PM »
Oh, yes, a 14-year-old who loves DS, and thinks, and expresses himself well in actual sentences and everything... there's a real stigma against that here!     How dare you presume to join us here!

[ghost_cheesy] As I said, the only forum I've really frequented in the past had lots of members who thought that if you were under 18, you were automatically an idiot and that your opinion meant nothing. I didn't know what to expect from this forum, so I've been cautious about mentioning my age in the past, but I've been accepted quite fully, as the members here have proved to apparently be about 50 IQ points higher than the people on said other forum, so I'm pleased with that.

I did think that simply having the show on would be the best way to lure someone in.

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Testing. 1, 2, 3... / Re: Latest Windows Update an Internet Killer?
« on: July 09, 2008, 07:27:13 AM »
Have not installed it yet. However, my computer has for some reason stopped making System Restore points very often, so I'm praying that it doesn't affect me.

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