DARK SHADOWS FORUMS
General Discussions => Current Talk Archive => Current Talk '24 I => Current Talk '03 II => Topic started by: VictoriaWintersFan on December 28, 2003, 02:10:14 AM
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I must admit my favorite set is the Collinwood Drawing Room. I like when the characters talk and interact in that room, it makes you feel like you are really there in in Collinwood. My favorite music is the one they use wil Barnabas and Julie a lot, its eerie, dont know the name of it though.
What are your alls?
Shane
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The Blue Whale is one of my favorite sets. It has that sixties atmosphere especially in the very first few eps. 8)
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Hello [VictoriaWintersFan], my favorite set is the Old House drawing room, I loved watching it change from the old abandoned dusty room to its charm and warmth of the 1795 flashback... my favorite music is of course Sarah's theme along with Barnabas' music.
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My favorite is the drawing room at the Old House. The fire burning, the candles glowing, the portrait of Barnabas above the fireplace.....it's like I'm at home now. :D
My favorite music is Josettes theme.
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my favorite set is the parallel time room. Its just so beautiful and colorful. I know what my favorite music is but its too hard to describe it so I wont even try.
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There were few (if any) sets I can say I disliked. Roger's bedroom is probably my fave though. I liked everything in it and would kill for a fireplace like that anywhere in my house.
I really liked the basement, study, and the cottage too (especially in B&W). And the foyer's a sentimental favorite. I must also mention the secret corridors at Collinwood as well. I absolutely loved it when they'd have characters meander through them. They are the only sets that really stir my imagination, even today.
I love all of the creepy background music as well as the more sedate stuff. Didn't like Ode To Angelique or I Wanna Dance With You. Fave music cues are the bum, Bum, BUM and the cue that closed out the song Seance on the LP. I like both of Josette's themes as well as the main and opening themes.
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I have a lot of favorites , and they're all pretty obvious ones, for the rooms. I love Vicky's room at Collinwood , which is later Maggie's , and in 1795 is Josette's.I don't remember who if anybody used them in other time periods.I'm sure it was probably Rachel's room in 1897.Anybody remeber who used it , if anybody , in 1970 PT, 1841PT and 1840RT?I'd guess that Daphne used it in 1840, but I'm not sure .I do know that it was Liz's bedroom before she married. For some reason I love the history , knowing all the different women who lived in that room.It seems sort of sweet that Liz put Vicky in her old room.
I also love the foyer and drawing room of Collinwood , they're iconic symbols of the whole show.The parallel time room was pretty , it's a shame they didn't use it more , especially in 1841PT , where it seemed to be used so often at first.
Joseete's room is also pretty. More than any other room it seems like a character with it's own personality.
As far as music goes the opening credits and the bit at the begining are both nice.
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Favorite set: Drawing Room at Collinwood.
Favorite Music: "A Darkness at Collinwood", "Joanna"; "Ode to Angelique"
Wiley
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My favorite sets, believe it or not and this is gonna sound weird, were the restaurants where various characters (like Vicki and Frank) would have meetings and dinner. Of course, they were only seen pretty much in the first few months of the series. I enjoyed the detail, including other patrons eating and talking in the background, and waiters moving to-and-fro. It was just such a wonderful style of reality.
And music? For me, the haunting Joanna's Theme.
Gerard
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My favorite set is the Collinwood drawing room, especially when Vicky is in it. I also like the Evans cottage. Sam Evans' studio and Maggie's room, although small, appeared nice & comfortable.
Music...I love Josette's Theme and Quentin's Theme. I don't know if it has a name, but I love that quick melodramatic, cliff-hanging mini-theme that plays either at the end of the show or right before a commercial break. From my poor memory, it sounds something like "duhn-duhn-DUHN!"
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::)I just can't stop thinking about the scene where Quentin's ghost chases everyone from Collinwood to the Old House. In the final scenes Roger proclaims, "We'll be back!" and the camera scans the rooms of the house while playing Quentin's Theme, fireplaces blazing. I thought the sets were exceptionally lovely. The drawing room was always beautiful no matter the year or dimension.
Misty
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I know this will sound weird but one of my many favorites is the cottage (in B&W 1966-67) where Laura (the Phoenix) is staring into the fireplace and Dr. Guthrie is looking in through the glass on the front door. There were a lot of good scenes shot in the cottage over the years. The music, I like so much of it but 'Joanna' is one of my favorites and 'A Darkness at Collinwood' (so chilling and suspenseful!) and I can't forget "#1 at the Blue Whale". It makes me truly sad to think that there is nothing out on TV (so far) that can even match the wonderfulness of the total Dark Shadows experience. I had high hopes for Twin Peaks (loved the music and the storyline) but it just lost its edge after episode 17(?) when Laura's murderer became known. Ah well, we can only hope for some sort of improvement someday on TV. Something that you can fall in love with and treasure and draw you in week after week. I'm feeling kind of nostalgic..and sad about Dark Shadows being gone from Sci-Fi.
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I'm also very partial to Vicki's room, just because it looks so cozy¢â‚¬¦ and because I wouldn't mind a room that comes complete with a fireplace and a secret passage :) As someone said earlier in this topic, the history behind the room having been Elizabeth's as a young girl and the fact that she chose to give Vicki that particular room always seemed to add a nice touch to the possible ¢â‚¬ËœIs Vicki Elizabeth's daughter plot' (which I know we all mulled over recently.)
Am I crazy, or was it also Josette's room when the family finally moved into Collinwood? (It's been quite a while since I've seen 1795.)
As far as music, I think my favorite is Joanna's theme¢â‚¬¦ but I'm a big NODS fan, so I think that may have something to do with it.
grayson67 (Melissa)
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I'm also very partial to Vicki's room, just because it looks so cozy¢â‚¬¦ and because I wouldn't mind a room that comes complete with a fireplace and a secret passage
It does seem that some young lady was always given that room with a secret panel and passage. I imagine their delight when they discover it - storage! All they ever would get was that one armoire, hardly enough closet space for a young lady with her collection of season attire and other personal items, so I picture her gleefully pushing that hidden button and hauling in boxes, trunks and suitcases galore. And then one evening, while she sleeps, a vampire or some other horrible creature comes stalking down the secret passage in the darkness, ready to make a dramatic and frightening entrance, raising his arms (along with his cape, should be be wearing one) to attack when he smashes his big toe right into a crate filled with summer apparel, crying out: "Son of a bi....!" as he starts hopping about, biting down on his finger. That would certainly keep the tally of virginal things falling victim to a minimum.
Gerard
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Oh, Gerard that was too much!!! LOL [laugh] Still laughing over the mental picture of Barnabas, Adam or some other male baddie stubbing his big toe on the trunk containing Vicki's summer clothes!
To return to the thread, my favorite set is Josette's room at the Old House. As to my fave music, I don't know the name of it, but it's the music heard that accompanies the opening voiceover. I always think of it as "Midnite in the mansion of Collinwood."
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I'm also a longtime fan of the foyer and drawing room. But the mausoleum has always been another big favorite for my morbid imagination. Don't ask me why, but that window to the left just inside the creaking wrought iron gate has always fascinated me.
On the musical side - I enjoy almost all the music with few exceptions (like Dom I'm not too wild about "I Wanna Dance with You" mainly because I feel they ran that one way into the ground). I never seem to get tired of the background music and my favorite specific songs are a tie between Josette's and Quentin's themes.
And then one evening, while she sleeps, a vampire or some other horrible creature comes stalking down the secret passage in the darkness, ready to make a dramatic and frightening entrance, raising his arms (along with his cape, should be be wearing one) to attack when he smashes his big toe right into a crate filled with summer apparel, crying out: "Son of a bi....!" as he starts hopping about, biting down on his finger.
LOL - you kill me Gerard! If they ever decide to do a cartoon version of DS I think they really need to hire you to write it. [lghy]
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Favorite set(s): the Collinwood terrace w/ fountain and iron gate; and Chris Jennings' cottage (preferably when he's there... in human form).
Favorite music: anything from the Blue Whale's jukebox (preferably when Carolyn is on the dance floor).
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Sandor is right ..the terrace w/fountain is good, especially when Julia is lighting up out there or dipping a hanky in it to calm herself. . .
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Have to give it to the Mauseoleum also, several good bloopers, the lights blowing out with king Johnny and Magda covering up, Barny chasing Angelique around the coffin, to see the stagehand sitting down on a crate, and Willie cracking his head as he exits the secret room.... I always wondered why no one noticed that from the outside the mauseoleum was much larger , but on the inside was maybe half that size...
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I liked the 'fishing shack'. I think this was re-done and is where Carolyn lives in 1995.
Fav music...."I wanna dance with you".
Patti
But I agree about Laura in the cottage!
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I vote for the Old House - Especially the drawing room there, and Josette's room.
I like the music they play at the end with the "organ" at the end. I LOVE that!
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Not sure if anyone will even see this, but I'd go with the old house drawing room and basement. Spooked me as a kid.
Are there scans of blueprints of the sets around anywhere?
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Blueprints of the sets? I dunno, but I would guess some zealous fan has made rudimentary floorplans of both the Old House and of Collinwood. Make a new question on the 'current talk' thread and see what you get.