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Current Talk '03 II / Pre-Barnabas Eps ever on DVD?
« on: October 14, 2003, 04:48:09 PM »
After all the DVD sets are released...

...Do you think they'll go back, and make the first pre-Barnabas year available as a special edition-- like they did on VHS?

Has there been any announcements?  Does it seem likely to you?

I was just browsing the Victoria Winters thread under Current Talk, and remembering how much I liked the early Vicki, Maggie, Caroline, Devlin, etc...

The dialog seemed especially snappy in that first year, and even without the supernatural elements it was a darned good soap...

I'll be awfully disappointed if I can't ever get those first eps on disc...

Whatcha think?

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Current Talk '02 II / How long before Q talks?
« on: September 10, 2002, 08:31:45 AM »
I find it interesting that both Quentin and Barnabas seem to have been hired as total villians, only to quickly become favorites and have their characters softened and fleshed-out...  

How long before Quentin talks?

And out of curiousity: I remember Quentin & Beth, Daphne & Gerard...  all being silent ghosts for a long time before getting their first lines of dialog.  Were there others that started as a non-verbal presence?

Which regular has the honor of being mute the longest--before the powers-that-be gave them their first lines of actual dialog?

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Calendar Events / Announcements '02 II / Favorite non-DS performance by cast?
« on: August 22, 2002, 08:41:56 AM »
I've watched Star Trek Next Generation so many times I've lost count, but it wasn't until tonight I realized (while browsing the imdb) that Kathryn Leigh Scott played a lead role in one of my all-time favorite episodes: Who Watches the Watchers?  

Of course, right away I had to watch the episode again; luckily I just bought the DVD set...  There she is, playing a character I've always loved, and I never put two & two together!  She plays Nuria, the leader of a primitive Vulcan-ish race.  Picard has to beam her up to the ship in order to convince her that he isn't a God, and they share several wonderful scenes together.  It's a truly extraordinary performance.

I'm sure there's plenty of great roles and guest spots I haven't come across, but it's always great to see one of the regulars pop up somewhere else.  

Another favorite of mine is Thayer David as the evil Count Sagnussen in the adventure film Journey to the Center of the Earth starring James Mason...

What's your favorite non-DS performance by one of the Dark Shadows gang?

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Current Talk '02 II / Bramwell?!?  (spoilers)
« on: August 21, 2002, 09:18:55 AM »
I watched the whole series in its entirety last go-round on SciFi, and the final arc really perplexed me.  For years and years, nearly all the primary actors played multiple parts, but Barnabas was always just Barnabas...  Then in the final arc of the show, he suddenly plays another character for the first time--his own son, at least in parallel time...

Since Barnabas was, more or less, the character which kept the series going, why did they discard him near the end?  Was it a suggestion of the producers or writers?  Was Jonathan tired of the role?  Just curious if anyone's ever heard any insider info or speculation about this...

?!?

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