"Stokes was thoroughly shocked that the first reaction of someone as prim and proper as Vicki to seeing a silhouette of Trask was, "Holy $#!@! What the $%@#!! Dude! That thing gives me the CREEPS!"

"Adam was at once horrified when one night outside the Old House he was confronted with his deepest fear: Scripts from the future... and he's not in them!!"

Setup:

"Once Trask explained to Judith that _____________ would ____________, Judith's only response was ____________!!"

"Cassandra was thoroughly scandalized when Roger suggested that an inventive way to 'spice up' their marriage was to allow him to wear the pants in the family for once. Nylons were starting to chafe him something awful!"

 "Julia became terribly embarrassed after an angry Barnabas confronted her over the fact that she'd gotten all jiggy with his bad self."

I'm bringing this from another topic... I'm certainly enjoying discussing the characters!

examples could certainly be joan bennett playing elizabeth as if she were victoria's mother.what joan brought to that lends the situation certainty to many fans even though it never actually gets spelled out in specifics within the scripts.

Elizabeth is another character that I've often wanted to write and develop in fan fiction. What confuses me about her is that it's sort of implied that she's actually Victoria's mother. She keeps the secret of what she believes is Paul Stoddard being buried in the basement of Collinwood, she doesn't leave Collinwood for 18 years because of this, yet later as the show progresses, she falls victim to some of the oddest of curses and spells, like she's some kind of an easy mark. How can someone so strong be controlled so easily? It makes me wonder if somewhere in Collinwood there's a room that stores hundreds of Kirby vacuums, Mary Kay cosmetics, and Fuller brushes, simply because she can't say no!

Opinions?

I really enjoyed your post Maggie!

WOW! That was a nice compliment! Thank you!