DARK SHADOWS FORUMS
General Discussions => Current Talk Archive => Current Talk '24 I => Current Talk '05 I => Topic started by: dvlvan26 on April 16, 2005, 08:44:00 PM
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Please list of of the worst episodes on DS. You can list violent moments, pre-emptied episodes, episodes of no action, episodes of less than 4 featured actors, etc.
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Hated when Lady KittyakaJosette got away from Barnabas at end of 1897....
Hated anything with Sabrina in it.
Hated!HATED!! Hearing, "Julia...if Adam dies" (or the exact words) from Dr. Lang, overandoverANDOVER again!
Patti
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Just before they went to 1795, Barnabas is trying to drive Julia insane, a couple of them episodes were quite boring. Seems like the Doc was the only person in the episodes, going thru her hysterics. It may have been a lot was going on in preparing for the 1795 flashback, and just decided to do a couple of days of "scare Julia" episodes..
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Hated when Lady KittyakaJosette got away from Barnabas at end of 1897....
Hated!HATED!! Hearing, "Julia...if Adam dies" (or the exact words) from Dr. Lang, overandoverANDOVER again!
I hated that Barnabas and Josette were torn from each other again. I would've liked to have seen the two of them go to the future together.
I loathed Dr. Lang's taped message and every episode that I had to suffer through hearing it. Once was more than enough, thank you. ;)
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episodes that revolve around elizabeth's fear of death/being buried alive are pretty dreadful.
a waste of joan bennett's time and talent. ::)
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I never cared much for the Leviathan storyline...especially the scenes with the breathing. The kid Alexander...definitely didn't like him. Conjures up too many images of the child from the Omen movie.
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Quite a few episodes in 1970 parallel time come to mind.
Barnabas going back in time again to save Vicki and Peter right before the Quentin & Beth's ghosts mayhem starts...
Sometimes you just want to yell in a very Monty Python-esque way Get on with it!
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Anything with Adam. How I wished someone would just find a loose thread and tug on it, unravelling Dr. Lang's work, so that critter would go to pieces.
Gerard
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Any episode crying for a retake or some editing. I remember reading about Mr. Frid being allowed to edit a performance that he ruined. I wish they had just reshot the episode but at least they let him fix what he could.
One episode with Sarah and Dr. Woodard was so flub filled it was painful to watch. Editing would not have fixed that but reshooting with a new actress might have helped.
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Anything to do with Dr. Lang and the word "experiment". Did I ever feel sorry for JF everytime he had to say the word "experiment" especially after the beautiful 1795 dialogue.
Poor Robert Rodan was really a very good actor but the Adam story was an embarassment.
And sadly dissapointed after seeing the Jenkins/Don Briscoe charachter turn into a warewolf...that was it for me.
Stopped watching around that time so don't know about the rest of the series.
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Anything during Liz's buried alive/death fixation
Everything involving Count Petofi in 1897
Leviathans
and certin parts of 1840/1970/1995
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I remember there was one scene between Maggie and Barnabas...Aha...episode 251, when Barnabas wanted to kill Maggie.
The dialogue goes something like this:
[spoiler]Barnabas: I have come to a decision about you...
Maggie: What are you planning?
Barnabas: I have decided...to KILL you.[/spoiler]
Just the way he delivered that line brought tears of laughter to my eyes, it was the worst bit of acting I've ever seen from the Barnabas character...
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The episode where Jeb digs up the remains of a certain enemy and the camera cuts to a still photo of Dennis Patrick (may he rest in peace) having one of his "freakout"moments ... and THIS is the cliffhanger... even for Dark Shadows, THAT was beyond the pale!
G.
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The episode where Jeb digs up the remains of a certain enemy and the camera cuts to a still photo of Dennis Patrick (may he rest in peace) having one of his "freakout"moments ... and THIS is the cliffhanger... even for Dark Shadows, THAT was beyond the pale!
Steve....really? you hated this>>>wow...I laughed so hard...well, I'm sure you can fill in the blank.
Please...someone...put a screen grab of this....I would L O V E to have it as an avatar (unless it'll make Steve unpleased....)
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I can't really pinpoint specific episodes, but most of the episodes during the Adam storyline were just dreadful - everything was just so drawn out. Also, the last half of Leviathan had a lot of huge bombs that I found infinitely difficult to sit through.
The episodes of 1970PT from when most of the cast was shooting House of Dark Shadows are pretty dreadful, too. Some are fine, but the ones that mainly focus around Cyrus and Sabrina? Ugh!
Now that I think about it, one specific episode does come to mind, and tripwire mentioned it. I hated the episode where Julia runs around Collinwood scared half out of her mind during the entire episode. As much as I love Grayson Hall, that episode was just really bad.
Please...someone...put a screen grab of this....I would L O V E to have it as an avatar (unless it'll make Steve unpleased....)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v229/tcsnowster/CorpseBizarrePaul.jpg)
;D
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Up until Eve came into the storyline, the Dream Curse / Adam storyline sucked. DVD Collection 8 is horrible to watch from this storyline because the show never got anywhere.
I love Dennis Patrick's characters. Even though he was more better as Jason McGuire, it was great the show thought of him when casting Paul. I can't wait to get the rest of The Leviathan storyline on DVD.
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[size=8]VWR....THANK YOU THANK YOU!![/size]
Patti
sorry Steve
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Up until Eve came into the storyline, the Dream Curse / Adam storyline sucked. DVD Collection 8 is horrible to watch from this storyline because the show never got anywhere.
I love Dennis Patrick's characters. Even though he was more better as Jason McGuire, it was great the show thought of him when casting Paul. I can't wait to get the rest of The Leviathan storyline on DVD.
i have to say that i kind of got a kick out of the dream curse storyline.it was the cheesiest thing ever but it used characters like david,sam and mrs. johnson at a time when they otherwise weren't being featured prominently.
but adam...yuck.you're right that the storyline was spinning on it's wheels until eve arrived.she finally provided a bit of resolve to an endless plot.
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Can't say that I ever totally hated an episode of DS, but I come the closest with some of the PT1841 storyline, towards the end of the series. I just never found myself emotionally invested in any of those characters. Except Morgan Collins, whom I really did hate.
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Except Morgan Collins, whom I really did hate.
I have one tape of the Morgan Collins, Catherine Collins, Bramwell Collins bunch and found it OK, nice to see JF in something different and he DOES appear different. Nice to see Lara Parker in something different and think she steals the show as Catherine. But, is it me or am I not noticing a little Roger Corman influence by this point? In the music, garish set designs in lots of orange and red, pacing and dark (but not charming or atmospheric as in earlier DS) lighting and endless talk about going into a "room"... [spoiler]poor Bramwell finally gets pushed into the "room",[/spoiler]well, anyway, geez....I hate to think this was in store for the vibrant Collins family. I'd rather see a vampire or two.
The actor who played Morgan had nice dimples and I didn't find him unobjectionable. Not bad really, considering the part.
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I've given this a fair amount of thought and to my utter surprise, I don't have an episode in mind. There were SLs that I hated--hell, I loathed all of 1841PT, but I think I always found something moderately entertaining to keep me going...
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1841PT was my least favorite period in the series, mainly because there was absolutely no connection to the RT characters. It almost felt like a seperate DS spin-off series. That being said, I still enjoyed 1841PT to degrees. I got into the whole "Lottery" thing, and the Bramwell, Catherine and Morgan triangle was decent. Still, it was lame, and kind of weird, to end the show in a 19th century parallel dimension with none of the series' main characters present. Then again, I suppose doing such a thing left the fans eternally hungry for more DS, and spawned countless fanfics and lots of speculation.
~Penny Dreadful~
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Just about every episode of 1970 Parallel Time story. Will and Carolyn Loomis were the only bright spots (and they weren't on a whole lot!) I never cared for the whole [spoiler]Jekyll/Hyde aspect, nor did I care anything about Quentin and Maggie. They didn't click in RT and even less so than PT time. Even the Angelique killing Alexis and taking over her idenity[/spoiler] did nothing for me.