Is there some kind of gay subtext there or is it just my imagination? I mean, really, especially when they were talking about how they had been buddies for a long time and *cough* knew each other well. And I almost thought that Jason was going to say to Elizabeth, "Willie is to me as your husband was to you." 

Does it look to anyone else like Julia got stabbed in the head with something?  That would certainly explain the uncomfortable-looking expression on her face.

I was listening to an orchestrated version of one of my favorite score pieces, Koji Kondo's "Zelda's Lullaby" from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, when I began to notice that parts of it sounded strikingly similar to Josette's Theme. It's more clear in a MIDI version, so here's one to compare.

Am I crazy, or is there a large similarity?

I was poring over the review archives of Four Fat Chicks, one of my favorite humorous gaming sites, when I came across a review for a Science Fiction PC game called Legacy: Dark Shadows. It was a sci-fi point-and-click game, not a genuine DS game, of course, but the author of the review did mention it. Here's the link. The reviewer oddly refers to Vicki as [spoiler]Victoria Clark, which I suppose she technically was for her last few appearances.[/spoiler]

I also played one of my mother's point-and-click games tonight, Nancy Drew: Message in a Haunted Mansion (the ND games are far better games than the ND books are books, just so you know). I'm pretty sure I came across a few DS references. For one, a book can be found in the game that has a few pages of a story about a woman named Carolyn Steubing (replace "eubing" with "oddard" and what do you get?) looking for her formerly old money family's treasure. Many, many mentions are made in the game to the phoenix, though in the game, it is presented as a fictional creature, stays a bird, and rises every 500 years as opposed to 100. I could have simply discounted this as a coincidence, until I found another paper, this one detailing bed and breakfasts in the SanFran area. One of the B&Bs was mentioned because it held a nightly mystery dinner show for its guests. The B&B is named the Dark Shadows Inn. *cough*

Just wanted to share these with my fellow DSF members.

I also got the idea for this thread while looking at the Movie Cast Ideas. If an African-American remake of DS was done (I'm aware that it's incredibly unlikely; that's why this is on the Games board), what actors would you choose?

Barnabas - Will Smith (probably because of the ears)
Elizabeth - Alfre Woodard or Jasmine Guy
Julia - Whoopi Goldberg (don't ask me why, because I don't know)
Maggie - Keyshia Knight-Pulliam
Carolyn: Gabrielle Union

I had this idea a bit earlier today, and figured I'd post it on the Game boards.

This is a DS-themed variation of the party game Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon. For those unfamiliar with the game, the objective is to create a "chain" of links to a certain thing in as few links as possible, the maximum being six. For example:

John Linnell (1) is a member of the indie pop-rock group They Might Be Giants. He produced the group Common Rotation's album The Big Fear; actor/musician Adam Busch (2) is a member of Common Rotation. Adam Busch appeared on Buffy the Vampire Slayer with Sarah Michelle Gellar (3), who had starred on All My Children with Louis Edmonds (4).

Direct links, as seen above, are ideal, but stretches are fine, too:

Goo Goo Dolls member John Rzeznik (1) received inspiration for the title of the song Iris by flipping through a magazine and seeing the name of country/folk singer Iris DeMent (2). DeMent's song Our Town was played at the end of the last episode of the television series Northern Exposure. James Marsters (3) appeared in two episodes of Northern Exposure, and was also a regular on Buffy, where he worked with Sarah Michelle Gellar (4), who had worked with Louis Edmonds (5).

I apologize for using SMG to Louis Edmonds in both my examples, but anyway, feel free to post your own here. The only rules are to not exceed six links and not to do simple things like "Joan Bennett (1) worked on Dark Shadows." Sorry if this is a boring game.

[spoiler]Was it really necessary? It seemed to me that he came, Julia and Barnabas tucked him away somewhere, the storyline ended, and he came back with them (with a bit that was potentially rather insulting to Thayer David, as the writers had Stokes check the refrigerator first thing after his return to the present!). I was wondering if anyone felt the same way, or if the writers provided some sort of explanation for this in interviews, as it just seemed odd that they would do that.[/spoiler]