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Complete This Phrase / Fill In The Blank(s) - Vicki/Jeff-Cassandra/The Dream Curse-Adam/Eve/Nicholas / Re: Episode #0617
« on: August 27, 2008, 04:03:56 PM »
Sadly, that one's pretty much the way it really was.
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it allows us to do some offbeat stuff, like getting Alec Newman onboard. Ever since Big Finish got the license to do Dark Shadows, I'd hoped we'd get Alec to do something for us, and he's utterly brilliant. I'm bound to say that, obviously, but really, he is.
However, IMO, DC never understood why DS charmed so many people.
And I was just getting all enthused about 1991 DS.... I'm still optimistic but weon't look for BC as my big protagonist to identify with.
Dan Curtis's big idea for the character of Barnabas was for him to show up in the community, be bad, and bite more and more people until he was caught and destroyed, right? He held onto that, and when Barnabas became something else, he tried to "correct" things in HODS. Then he tried to "correct" it again in 1991 DS. As "visions" go, it doesn't really deserve all those second chances, does it? Isn't it just the typical generic vampire tale? I think that the thing that made Barnabas special was that he wasn't that generic vampire DC wanted.
my only real criticism would be that he tended to chew the scenery as much as he chew the ingenues' necks, especially when he had the contacts and the fangs in...
Ben Cross was, no offense meant, too short to play Barnabas.Possibly, but it might have been more historically accurate. People on the whole were shorter in the 18th century than now.