DARK SHADOWS FORUMS
General Discussions => Current Talk Archive => Current Talk '26 I => Current Talk '12 I => Topic started by: Patti Feinberg on January 06, 2012, 12:21:45 AM
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I haven't watched any DS in more than 1-2 years.
I popped in a VHS (from when we used to tape SciFi); what a HOOT!!
The episodes were right before JebEZ is to [spoiler]marry Carolyn and take his mantle of power!!!![/spoiler]
There WERE ZOMBIES!!!! (I was cracking up!!)
Bruno WAS THERE!!!
HAA WAS THERE!!!!
Wow!
Soooo many monsters!!!!
Patti
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And Barnabas and Julia! I miss them so much now that the Watching Project is on the pre-Barnabas episodes!
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Yes Lydia...but, just think how much more we will appreciate them once they're 'back'.
Patti
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Thanks for this post, Patti. I thought I was the only DS fan on the planet who truly appreciates the delirium that is late Leviathans.
G.
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I always loved it that late in almost every story line, the writers just threw everything but the kitchen sink into the mix just to bring the story to an end. It's like everyone knows that nothing makes sense but they just go along and do the show anyway.
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The more story threads and characters there are bumping into each other and interacting, the more I like it! That'll keep me interested even when the writing's not good. One great late-Leviathans thing:[spoiler]vampire Megan![/spoiler] We hardly knew ye...
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The storylines got crazy but the character relationships were never more nuanced. I loved Julia's slowly learning to trust Barnabas again. Willie's return is well handled and his choice to help Barnabas is well done. Roger finally stops being a skeptic about the supernatural. His acceptance of the paranormal is very well handled. Angelique is genuinely sympathetic and has become almost as tragic a character as Barnabas. The scenes at the old house where she learns that Barnabas is once more a vampire are some of my favorites. She seems genuinely surprised and saddened by this. And Barnabas seems to have forgiven her for cursing him the first time. What a shame that we didn't get to see their relationship evolve to the next level. The 1840 revelation that he loves Angelique comes out of left field. It seems more natural here.
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what's a tape?
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what's a tape?
Maybe it was here on our beloved board, maybe on another - I don't remember - but somebody recounted that they were watching a rerun of DS and it was the scene, set in PT1970 when the "Angelique's Theme" record was placed in the phonograph. The child of the parent who was watching the scene was completely confused at what was going on regarding the record and the phonograph and asked: "What's that?"
We're getting old, many of my beloved DS cousins here. We're getting old. But don't pull out the Geritol and overdose on it, my beloved DS cousins! I've read several news reports where those vinyl discs and turn-tables are making a significant come-back. It turns out that they still posses the best clarity of anything that has come down the pike, whether CD's or whatever. It turns out that what we had back "in da good ol' days" is still the best. Now, as one of the ancient cousins here, let me tell you youngin whippersnappers how I had to run home after school, in a blizzard during a June heatwave with no air-conditioning, 40 miles, uphill, to watch DS on a B&W TV set with only three viewable channels that required a rodar (e-mail me privately to explain what that was) and had knobs for on/off (and the TV had to be "warmed up" before we got any image - e-mail me about that, too), channel changing and volume. Oh, and don't forget about adjusting the horizontal (again, e-mail...oh, never mind).
Gerard
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Warming up the set to watch Dark Shadows is how I got hooked on One Life to Live. [ghost_smiley]