DARK SHADOWS FORUMS
General Discussions => Current Talk Archive => Current Talk '24 I => Current Talk '02 II => Topic started by: Julia99 on August 21, 2002, 07:27:59 AM
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If I were Julia .. i'd be asking the above question and complaining about always having to catch a few winks in a wingbacked chair thats 200 years old and has springs sticking my *ss. Now if Naomi & Joshua, Aunt Abigail, Barnabas & Jeremiah, Natalie, Josette, Sarah, Millicent, her brother (forget his name) plus all them servants could bed down there for a night. . why didn't Julia get her own room??
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Not just Julia. That's the only place I have ever seen Barnabas sleep in other than his coffin.
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So true. . except for when he was **young** and dying of the bat bite. . .
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Not just Julia. That's the only place I have ever seen Barnabas sleep in other than his coffin.
Im constantly wondering where on earth he sleeps now. I thought it strange today when he told Julia he was dead tired and wanted to get some sleep, then says "I'll go down and sleep in the chair!!" Doesn't he have his own bedroom?? Since the only two bedrooms in the house that have been re-done are Josette's & Willie's, Im beginning to wonder if he just uses Josette's room as his sleeping quarters.
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I really can't figure this out. Back in the old days, I assumed that he had only restored the "show rooms" downstairs and Josette's room. And, we did see Willie's room at one time.
But, now that he's human, I would assume that he's at least fixed up a room for himself. And with as often as Julia seems to be there, you'd certainly think there would be a room somewhere where she could lie down properly!!
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Now if Naomi & Joshua, Aunt Abigail, Barnabas & Jeremiah, Natalie, Josette, Sarah, Millicent, her brother (forget his name)
DANIEL
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If I were Julia .. why didn't Julia get her own room??
She has the gurney in the basement lab...
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If I were Julia .. i'd be asking the above question and complaining about always having to catch a few winks in a wingbacked chair thats 200 years old and has springs sticking my *ss. Now if Naomi & Joshua, Aunt Abigail, Barnabas & Jeremiah, Natalie, Josette, Sarah, Millicent, her brother (forget his name) plus all them servants could bed down there for a night. . why didn't Julia get her own room??
The flip answer is that it's because DC was too cheap to spring for another set.
I think that we saw Willie's bedroom and that there was a reference to there being a bedroom for Barnabas, but not sure if we ever see that.
Ya know, when I was first watching the show on tape, I remember longing to see stuff like this--did these people never eat? (I didn't see the pre-Barnabas tapes for years). What did so and so's room look like? Then there would be the anticipation--oh, cool, they're going to have a party! They'll be extras and maybe there will be another set . . .
all fading away to disappointment :(
Luciaphil
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How's this for a rationalization of cheap production values?
I read years ago (gods, it's decades now) that gentlemen of the upper classes tended to sleep sitting up in a chair right up until the 1880s or 90s, rather than retiring to bed.
It was so they didn't muss their hair, apparently.
Just goes to show you how arbitrary assigned gender appropriate behaviors are from culture to culture.
Gothick
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At this point in the storyline, both the Old House and Collinwood sets were up all the time there was already the Josette's Room set up for goog old Joe. Add some woods, a cemetery, and Angelique's coffin area in "The House by the Sea," and you've probably got a full studio!
Of course, TPTB seemed unconcerned where BC slept, unless it was in his coffin. As a kid watching the show, I never took time to worry about these inconsistensies, as long as something else interesting or exciting was going on.
Petofi
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--did these people never eat? Then there would be the anticipation--oh, cool, they're going to have a party! They'll be extras and maybe there will be another set . . .
What about that "so called dinner party" that they invited Nickolas Blair to at the old house? I kept waiting for Nickolas to say " what a lovely dinner that was" (wonder did he ever get to eat?) or at least have someone mention it, but instead they wound up chewing his ear off for 4 hours. ::)
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If I were Julia .. i'd be asking the above question and complaining about always having to catch a few winks in a wingbacked chair thats 200 years old and has springs sticking my *ss. Now if Naomi & Joshua, Aunt Abigail, Barnabas & Jeremiah, Natalie, Josette, Sarah, Millicent, her brother (forget his name) plus all them servants could bed down there for a night. . why didn't Julia get her own room??
wouldn't be proper to have her own room in The Old House but she does seem to spend the night there so ?????Did barnabas have a room in 1795?
jennifer
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Did barnabas have a room in 1795?
jennifer
I remember seeing him lying in a bedroom after Angelique tried to choke him to death using a wooden toy soldier, handkerchief, and a evil spell.
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Even if they didn't want to have a set built to be his bedroom they could have least made a reference to his going into another bedroom to lie down. It was just plain silly for Julia and him to say we are going down stairs and sit in a chair to get a few winks. If that is the case spring for a recliner or better yet get a couch.
Birdie--it is almost time for me to hit the sack guess I will go find a chair
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wouldn't be proper to have her own room in The Old House but she does seem to spend the night there so ?????Did barnabas have a room in 1795?
Barnabas did have his own room in 1795. That's one of the things I liked about that time period, we got to see just about everyone's upstairs bedrooms. All the bedrooms were decorated so nicely too. We even got to see the servants rooms, (Vicky & Angelique) I guess D.C. really splurged during that sequence, then figured he'd better make up for it by cutting down on everything during the present time period.
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Barnabas did have his own room in 1795. That's one of the things I liked about that time period, we got to see just about everyone's upstairs bedrooms. All the bedrooms were decorated so nicely too. We even got to see the servants rooms, (Vicky & Angelique) I guess D.C. really splurged during that sequence, then figured he'd better make up for it by cutting down on everything during the present time period.
DC not only cut on space but also people...The number of characters per episode decreases. As an adult watching, you sometimes wonder where these individuals go for such long periods of time. ::) Perhaps, they got lost in the West wing or fell into parallel time...One individual in 1795, who just disappeared was Andre duPres. Great topic for another post...
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DC not only cut on space but also people...The number of characters per episode decreases. As an adult watching, you sometimes wonder where these individuals go for such long periods of time. ::) Perhaps, they got lost in the West wing or fell into parallel time...One individual in 1795, who just disappeared was Andre duPres. Great topic for another post...
Supposidly he went to New York on business, but you'd think he'd come back for Josette's funeral *shrug* And to pick up Natalie.
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Supposidly he went to New York on business, but you'd think he'd come back for Josette's funeral *shrug* And to pick up Natalie.
I always wondered about that one. It just didn't fit right, I mean it was his own daughter for goodness sakes! With all his wealth Im sure he could have afforded a quick carriage trip back to Collinwood to at least attend her funeral.[hdscrt]
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And with as often as Julia seems to be there, you'd certainly think there would be a room somewhere where she could lie down properly!!
I know it wouldn't seem proper for Julia to have her 'own' room but they could've alluded to the Front Guest Room such as when La Liz showed up after following Julia to one of her quickie rendevous with Tom. . .Barnabas clearly told Willie (?) to take Mrs. Stoddard upstairs to the Front Guest Room since Julia was hanging out in Josette's room. ..
Oh well . . in all our imaginations she had a decent place to sleep somewhere. .be it a guest room or a gurney in the basement. . .
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HI, Julia99 those chairs look like they are out the
Called " All In The Family" Archie always had to
sit in that chair of his!!! But i do think that Julia
deserves better. Love Anne 8) :o ;D
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My thoughts were that they were both planning to just nap awhile rather than sleep for very long so they went downstairs. But, if Julia had to sleep upright, I think it would make more sense for her to sleep in a chair in Josette's room to be near her patient. (Of course that would have made it more difficult for Harry to slip the poison into the medication I suppose.)
What I can't understand is how Julia is still a guest at Collinwood after more than a year - or is she paying rent by this time? Either way, wouldn't someone outside of the Old House start to question why she's still hanging around?
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;DI am so glad I didn't live in the 1800's I would hate to sleep sitting up all night in a hard chair. I would rather have my hair looking like Don King. I am laughing so hard reading this thread that I am so keyed up I won't be able to sleep anywhere for a long time. Why don't we all tomorrow night sleep sitting up in a hard chair? Hey, if people did it every night years ago for years on end we can all do it for one night. ;D Paul
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Why don't we all tomorrow night sleep sitting up in a hard chair? Hey, if people did it every night years ago for years on end we can all do it for one night. ;D Paul
LOL...Paul you've got to be much younger than me because that sounds hideous even as an experimental thing! Actually, last night I woke up around 12:30 and didn't go back to sleep the rest of the night. Not even the remainder of my DS recordings from last week or the soothing sounds of Robert Cobert could lull me back to sleep. I may not have been sitting in a chair but right now I think I know how it feels. :-[
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I am sorry you didn't sleep well Castlebee but look on the bright side you might have slept even less in a chair. Any body else willing to try the experiment? It is only for one night. :DPaul
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Any body else willing to try the experiment? It is only for one night.
Sure, I'll go for it. I'd feel better if there was at least a small group of people involved, and then we could all post about how the night went. Which night, Paul?
ProfStokes
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Tomorrow night.Paul
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Eh....yer all nuts. [silly]
You're really going to try sleeping sitting up in a chair?
(I'd suggest a sedative before you start).
Actually, it's not that difficult. Anyone who's spent years breastfeeding babies on and off throughout the night learns how to sleep sitting up.
(Only problem now is, I can't sleep lying flat). LOL
[roll3] [spin] [rollr]
-CLC
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Gotta agree with Connie about sitting up with babies. That may have ended nearly 16 yrs ago but the talent for falling asleep anywhere, anytime is still alive. That is a challenge I could actually excel at...
I thought for certain we saw a room during the series that Julia uses at the OH. I may be delusional :-X(quiet J99) but I have a strong visual in my mind. Bette has every J episode on tape....ask her.
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I thought for certain we saw a room during the series that Julia uses at the OH. I may be delusional :-X(quiet J99) but I have a strong visual in my mind. Bette has every J episode on tape....ask her.
I don't recall ever seeing Julia sack out in any bedroom in the OH except for Josette's room after her liaison with hunky Tom. Maybe Barn made her sleep on the cot in the cellar. :o
Bette
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I may be delusional :-X(quiet J99) but I have a strong visual in my mind. Bette has every J episode on tape....ask her.
I know . . .!! oh I know!!!!