Don't get too attached to the portrait of Josette. [ghost_wink]LOL!
David is a little hell-raiser and I'm really suprised they didn't just drop him off in some military school (as someone else on here suggested) ;)
Wow, Carolyn again comes across as almost as predatory as Barnabas, especially when (as mentioned upthread) she suggests Vicki ride the horse named Carolyn!!
Was that bar scene at the Blue Whale?
Woof! Man on man vampire action! On screen! At last!
I am not surprised Elizabeth knows the Doctor but I am surprised she is on a first name basis with Woodard.
Does Joe ever shave??
and find it odd that Barnabas would invite Vicki to dinner. I mean, what's he going to say when she comments that he's not eaten anything? Will Vicki just simper when he says her beauty has robbed him of his appetite?
And according to DS Resurrected, Carolyn is 18.
The portrait of Josette like the portrait of Barnabas, looks very much out of the time it was supposed to have been painted. She looks too free and voluptuous and frankly a bit wanton, beyond which I think even the French of the time would venture.I was surprised when Barnabas said that Barnabas and Josette had become paramours. I had always thought that paramours slept together. I checked in online dictionaries and it looks as though "paramour" doesn't indubitably mean the people are sleeping together, but the implication is so clear that it would be misleading to apply the word to people who are not sleeping together.
So I held back on commenting last week because I wanted to reflect on the pilot as a whole. First I'd like to address the whole Josette's portrait issue. As someone else suggested, one would think Josette had another portrait done and Liz had seen it. And this is getting a bit ahead, but look closely at Josette's portrait now. For some reason in the later eps, the portrait changes...unless you want to consider the possibility that there are two portraits that at one time hung in that room.
Is there a way to quote two posts at a time??
Is DS Resurrected the gospel? After all it is a Pom Press book.
Midnite I am so glad you share my love for Barbara Steele! GODDESS INDEED!
I wish so much that I could find the article or interview I read with Barbara Blackburn. She played Carolyn almost in bisexual way she said. Can anyone back this up??
I wonder where the trend of having vampires bare their fangs in that manner before they bit someone started. It doesn't look scary, it looks goofy as hell. I don't recall any of the vampires in the Universal pictures doing it, so it must have started later?
So I'm quoting myself because I really want to get an opinion about this. I know I'm not crazy and there are two different portraits used!I know I am jumping ahead. You are not crazy. It's never remarked upon in the series. I think it's just chalked up to a period of time between the filming of the pilot and the green lighting of a season and when the production team started to ramp up either the original prop had gone missing or it was decided that a head and shoulders portrait of Josette (with an obviously much larger face for the tv audience to see more clearly that Vicki is an almost exact double of Josette) would be more appropriate. I expect we will rehash this the next time Josette's portrait is seen.... [ghost_grin]
Taeylor,
A friend recalls either BB saying that she played Carolyn as though she were trying to seduce Victoria, or JG making the comment with BB present, but he said it was in a filmed interview.
THANK YOU THANK YOU Midnite! I didn't want to spread false information however I was 99% sure I had read an interview or watched one. And when I heard this it made total sense. I didn't pick up on it when I was a teen but watching it as an adult I did! I appreciate you backing this up. Now that I know it's filmed I am gonna have go digging through some old videos! [ghost_wink]
Victoria: We are treated to an intriguing voiceover from Victoria Winters telling us she “hopes to unlock the secrets of her past.” Unfortunately, that tantalizing comment is never built upon. There is a throwaway line from Roger about why a 25yo girl from New York would want to come to Collinsport, but otherwise it’s totally ignored. I have no problem at all with Carolyn being attracted to Vicki, but I think those scenes would have been put to much better use learning more of Vicki’s story. Why IS she there? Where is her family? Was she raised in an orphanage? Did she leave friends or a boyfriend in New York? Sadly, she is there simply because the script says she must be there. A wasted opportunity.
And whoever mentioned that it's hard to tell the Old House from Collinwood? I get them confused too - they look like the same place.
Elizabeth assures him that in time they'll get to know each other, but Roger says, "I'm not so sure, dear sister."
but of course like all good heroines she sits before an elaborate vanity,in diaphanous chiffon sleepwear,and dreamily brushes her hair before going to bed.does anyone really do this?
...but of course like all good heroines she sits before an elaborate vanity,in diaphanous chiffon sleepwear,and dreamily brushes her hair before going to bed.does anyone really do this?
LOL! I thought the chiffon was a bit much, but dreamily brushing her hair in a beautiful room after a steamy date with a hot and attentive man who put thoughts in her head that the two of them are reincarnated lovers... Um, what was the question again??! ;)
the clothing being worn was purchased at high toned establishments like the lamented 'i.magnin' and i presume were supposed to look "rich" but they don't look expensive to me.