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Current Talk '06 II / quentin in the "present"
« on: July 15, 2006, 05:25:30 AM »
i'm sorry.
but i just have to go here...
i don't want to offend any of the numerous quentin fans here(sorry,annie)but i'm currently watching dvd set 22(the 1995 and summer of 1970 eps.).
for the life of me i simply do not understand what quentin is doing at collinwood in the present.
don't get me wrong.i like david selby as quentin as a malevolent ghost during the 1968 episodes.he absolutely carries the 1897 storyline and in a "parallel time" like 1970pt. the writers were free do do what they wanted with this character.
but in "real time" he needed a 'raison d' etre' and i don't think that the writers came up with one other than the fact that quentin had become enormously popular with fans and that david selby likely had a contract.otherwise he is an extremely boring and unecessary character.with barnabas we already have one former villian cast as anti-hero but when quentin goes nice things get a bit top heavy.at least with barnabas he retains an element of unpredictability and dangerousness.
i think the thing that irritated me the most here was that quentin strolls around collinwood with liz like he owns the place and in a lame-o attempt to recapture some of the magic of 1897 quentin resides in his old room gramaphone and all.this dosen't make alot of sense to me...
but by this point the writing was so sloppy i suppose i shouldn't be surprised.
but i just have to go here...
i don't want to offend any of the numerous quentin fans here(sorry,annie)but i'm currently watching dvd set 22(the 1995 and summer of 1970 eps.).
for the life of me i simply do not understand what quentin is doing at collinwood in the present.
don't get me wrong.i like david selby as quentin as a malevolent ghost during the 1968 episodes.he absolutely carries the 1897 storyline and in a "parallel time" like 1970pt. the writers were free do do what they wanted with this character.
but in "real time" he needed a 'raison d' etre' and i don't think that the writers came up with one other than the fact that quentin had become enormously popular with fans and that david selby likely had a contract.otherwise he is an extremely boring and unecessary character.with barnabas we already have one former villian cast as anti-hero but when quentin goes nice things get a bit top heavy.at least with barnabas he retains an element of unpredictability and dangerousness.
i think the thing that irritated me the most here was that quentin strolls around collinwood with liz like he owns the place and in a lame-o attempt to recapture some of the magic of 1897 quentin resides in his old room gramaphone and all.this dosen't make alot of sense to me...
but by this point the writing was so sloppy i suppose i shouldn't be surprised.