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Current Talk '04 II / Re: Memories of the Dark Shadows Weekend
« on: August 17, 2004, 09:25:35 PM »Purely from the "look" of the pilot, I would have tuned in. It had the intense color saturation that reminded me of Coppola's "Dracula". Purists might have hated it because many of us loved the black and white episodes the best...but I believe this DS would have been visually stunning.
I loved everything that was included in the WB pilot's "Sneak Preview" - and now that I've seen what we're going to be missing out on, I'm extremely upset that it appears as if there's no chance that this pilot will ever evolve into a series - at least not in its present form. The look of the show was amazing. I was particularly impressed/pleased with Alec Newman, Marley Shelton and Alexander Gould. (Unfortunately, some of the other actors weren't reprented in the clips or had too little to really get a feel for their characters.) And the scenes in which Barnabas arrived at Collinwood, Vicki assured David he wasn't about to get rid of her, Barnabas couldn't bring himself to attack Vicki, and David "released" Angelique were all extremely well done and exciting to watch. Knowing that all the wonderful work that went into the making of the pilot may have all been for naught is enough to make a grown man cry.