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Hmmm...
It's too bad we didn't get to see, oh, say, Liz grilling frankfurters at the stove in full tiara 'do, drop earrings, stunning cocktail gown and high heels, glaring with a coldly imperious look in her eyes as she turns the recalcitrant franks.
ROGER: Liz, why do the hot dogs have to ALWAYS be well done?
LIZ: Because I CHOOSE to cook them so!
I am revisiting the 1991 series mainly to enjoy Barbara Steele's performance again.
the best bits of that show are Steele's scenes with Ben Cross. Between them they packed *a lot* of subtext
Of course, the scene where Barbara Blackburn as Carolyn was [spoiler]eagerly pawing Ben Cross' exposed chest as Barnabas prepares to chow down didn't exactly having me leaving the theatre to grab some more popcorn in the lobby. LOL![/spoiler]
That's why I don't like the 1991 show all that much.....in hurrying the plot, Dan sacrificed too much character development, we never really got to know any of the characters all that well.
Is there anyone else there who had to swallow a MIGHTY guffaw at Trask's line about the late Abigail's putatively "kind and gentle face" in ep. 433 (showcased in today's slide show)? I think I actually let loose a SHRIEK when that snippet of dialogue first passed my eardrums when I finally got around to seeing this part of the show back in the Nineties.
[spoiler]Seems to me they crammed about 3 weeks of story into ten minutes or so of air time![/spoiler]
[spoiler]Montague Summers reports a number of versions of the folk tradition that a suicide may return as a vampire, as a nosferatu, and I wonder whether Art Wallace had intended this as the original backstory to Barnabas' existence as one of the living dead.[/spoiler]
Too bad the episode has to conclude with him calling up the stairs for Willie, for we know what is in store for him.
It disturbs me that even with Jeb, they seem to have been trying to make him genuinely "reformed" and virtuous, just because he suddenly turns over a new leaf.
I wonder if the writers were harboring any murderers in their basements, or something, or had "pasts".
over the years there are just too many examples on DS of reprehensible people waking up one day whistling and redeemed.
I guess my caption is pretty tame after that!
(is Sam giving Joe the bird with both hands?)
(You have only one response in mind MB, right??)