I actually like the beginning of the Adam storyline. I just watched it all the way through for the first time since I first saw it on the Sci Fi Channel years ago. I feel really sorry for him in the beginning, and I thought that Barnabas and Julia handled it all very badly. Then there's the classic scenes between Adam and Willie (the chicken leg!). I thought Robert Rodan did a really good job and also thought that a lot of his scenes with Nancy Barrett were really sweet and sad. I think in the end that the storyline just went on for too long, and it did get tiring seeing Adam being a jerk and kidnapping Vicki too many times, although I stil always felt that Adam was completely justified in being a jerk--he was treated really badly by Barnabas and Julia, the two people who brought him to life. I do see though, as mentioned above, how the storyline really veered away from what the show had been like up until that point, and it really isn't as compelling, although Nicholas Blair is one of my favorite DS characters, and I really enjoyed Marie Wallace as Eve--she really seemed to enjoy the part! I guess one of the things I love about DS is that even when there's a storyline that I don't llike that much, there's always something else going on at the same time that makes it worth it. Right now I'm at the beginning of the Quentin's ghost storyline, and while Amy's high-pitched over-emoting really gets on my nerves (if she just didn't seem like she was yelling all of her lines!), I love the storyline with Chris/the werewolf and the last episodes with Joe Haskell (great work by Joel Crothers!).

I've always thought that a lot of the flubs made the characters seem more real to me, more natural. It does seem Jonathan Frid did it the most, but I've also never found him to be less than convincing. I think Connie may be on to something as far as JF seeming to flub his lines more with certain types of dialogue. A lot of his big scenes seem like monologues to me, like the one Gerard mentioned, and he just nails them. My favorite scene is when he tells Carolyn and Vicki the story of Josette's death! It's a huge piece of dialogue and he's so good.

I've been away from this board for awhile and just logged on and read this news--very sad!! Don has always been one of my favorites on DS too. Aside from the obvious reasons, he had something special about him and, of course, that wonderful voice! He will be greatly missed but, as others have said, always remembered!

I, too, buy most of my DVDs from Deep Discount DVD and have always been really pleased with their service. I've sometimes gotten pre-orders on the day before the actual release date, which has never happened when I've ordered from Amazon. DDD also sometimes has the DS sets priced below $40 when they're pre-orders. I really haven't been able to find a better price for these anywhere else.

I always ask myself why I don't hate Angelique because I know, as many have said here, that she is just EVIL! But for most of the reasons cited, I just can't help but love her. It's always exciting when Angelique shows up and, again like many have said, she really believes she's right. Then there are times when I find myself feeling sorry for her, at least a little, like during the Cassandra storyline and then later when she's under Nicholas' thumb. Crazy or not, in the end I always end up thinking she's just sad because she just can never let go of her love for Barnabas!

Maybe I'm not qualified to say this since I don't watch very many new tv shows, but I just feel that there isn't a lot of creativity anymore. I know some people would laugh at a lot of the old shows that I love, but they just seem different to me. Yes, DS had all of the props falling apart, actors flubbing lines, etc. but it was imaginative!! Like many of the shows everyone's mentioned in the thread in the Calendar section. Then there's the fact that shows are shorter so we can be inundated with even more commercials and those annoying logos that stay on the screen the whole time you're watching something, and I won't even get started on how much they cut out of older shows in syndication...

How about American Gothic? I know it didn't last long and I don't remember if I even got to see all of it, but I remember liking it.  I've seen the kid from the show, Lucas Black, in several movies and always thought he was a really good young actor.

I literally don't watch anything on tv anymore! I still have cable because I tape Gunsmoke on The Westerns Channel and Bewitched on TVland, but that's it. I know my priorities are completely not in order, but I buy a lot of tv shows on DVD. I just make up my own prime time viewing schedule. The few new shows I do like (24, Alias, The Sopranos, Six Feet Under) I've just decided to wait until they come out on DVD and then I'll either rent or buy them. That way I can watch them when I want, as many as I want, and best of all--no commercials! I've been buying all of the Dark Shadows sets, and Saturday night is Dark Shadows night. I'll check out the new DS, but I just don't get into too many new shows. I'm just more and more hopelessly drawn to old shows.