Hi Everyone,
Please excuse me if this has already been brought up here in a different thread. I looked back over the current Calendar Events and don't believe I saw a subject suggesting it has been previously discussed, at least recently. (I'm ashamed to say I don't visit this wonderful DS site as often as I should.
) Anyway, if this has already been discussed, the moderators can feel free to delete or merge or point me in another direction.
After the Fest this year a rather large group of us visited Seaview Terrace in Newport. As always, I stood in awe before our majestic icon. I asked myself (with all due respect to Greystone, the Doheny Mansion in Beverly Hills) how any other house could represent our beloved Collinwood? I also began to wonder about the new DS film. Who will make the decision, who will choose, the mansion to play the part of Collinwood? Will it be an actual physical house or a CGI? Will it be a chintzy looking model or a mansion with palm trees in the background? Will there be a real effort to search for the "right" house?
For me, I would love to see Seaview be the representation of Collinwood. I imagine it would need some computer embellishing to make it look spooky. But, hey, why not keep this iconic image in our new DS film?
How do you all feel? Should we find something else or keep this familiar, majestic structure as the home of our favorite TV family?
If, as I suspect, DS fans are overwhelmingly in favor of using Seaview, perhaps we could convince Jim Pierson to pass this message along to Depp, Burton and company? If Johnny wants to keep something as simple as the "Barnabas spider bangs" perhaps he would want to keep the image of the mansion as it was on the original DS?
I enjoyed seeing many of you last week. I also very much missed you guys who couldn't attend! You were in my thoughts!
SDP (Guy)