what's also funny is that kids at that age grow very quickly.so by the end of the 1795 storyline sarah looks much older than she did when her ghost first appeared in 1967.
This is so true! I can't believe how much David Hennesy has grown up, before our very eyes in fact, from the pre-Barnabas eps to PT 1970. He looks, acts and SOUNDS so much older than the early days of DS.
I think Frid did an excellent job of lending a genuine youthful charm to his character in 1795, that really did make me forget his real age. I think the agedness and the coldness in him comes from spending nearly 175 years cursed as a vampire and locked in a coffin.
This is a good point. In 1795, he was, in a way, almost childlike w/his naive ways. Actually pretty UN-worldly, IMHO, for a guy who had at least traveled to the Carribean on business and been exposed to different cultures etc...After becoming a vampire, and this after all the bad things that happened to him like [spoiler]his fiance jilting him literally at the alter, and w/his beloved uncle no less, caused him to develop an 'edge' to his personality. He started to see the bad in ppl, and life. Then throw the vampire curse in and nearly 200 years trapped in a coffin, and it's no wonder he wasn't a stark raving lunatic by 1967's release by Willie. Well, actually, he WAS for a time, his kidnapping and torture of Maggie being the prime evidence of that. But by the time he was 'cured' by the experiment, he'd regained some of his softness and compassion, as evidenced by all the good he did trying tirelessly to help ppl, most particularly his family. But he still had that 'edge' to him.[/spoiler]