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Current Talk '05 I / Re: The final Dark Shadows episode. Spoiler Alert.
« on: May 05, 2005, 09:12:16 PM »
CDT?
I was watching back then, and it was funny to me how incredibly slapped-together at the last minute and contrived that ending seemed to be. Well, we meant to do the tired old vampire device again, but wait, thank God we don't have to, the series is ending! Whoops, it was just an animal bite!
That was a terrible line from Bramwell. Thanks very much for telling us about it, but the writing itself would have been reason enough for cutting it.
When I got my DS tapes in 2002 or so, I was actually very surprised to find that events had been tied up much more neatly than I'd remembered. I remembered the series as being much more abruptly cut off mid-stream, than it was. The main storyline had actually been resolved happily, and left that way. Parallel 1841 had even been resolved, or the first storyline of it, anyway. The end took place at the end of a storyline, and it had all seemed more sudden and unplanned, in my memory.
I have heard that the cancellation was abrupt... the ratings apparently plunged quickly when the character of Barnabas was gone, and then the real ratings nosedive a bit later led to cancellation almost the same week, something like this.
I was watching back then, and it was funny to me how incredibly slapped-together at the last minute and contrived that ending seemed to be. Well, we meant to do the tired old vampire device again, but wait, thank God we don't have to, the series is ending! Whoops, it was just an animal bite!
That was a terrible line from Bramwell. Thanks very much for telling us about it, but the writing itself would have been reason enough for cutting it.
When I got my DS tapes in 2002 or so, I was actually very surprised to find that events had been tied up much more neatly than I'd remembered. I remembered the series as being much more abruptly cut off mid-stream, than it was. The main storyline had actually been resolved happily, and left that way. Parallel 1841 had even been resolved, or the first storyline of it, anyway. The end took place at the end of a storyline, and it had all seemed more sudden and unplanned, in my memory.
I have heard that the cancellation was abrupt... the ratings apparently plunged quickly when the character of Barnabas was gone, and then the real ratings nosedive a bit later led to cancellation almost the same week, something like this.