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Current Talk '08 II / Re: Is there any plan to show the new version of "Dark Shadows"?
« on: September 16, 2008, 08:21:56 PM »
I share that writer's desire.  I'd very much like to see the WB DS pilot..... So we can have a Watching Project 3!!!!!!! [9251]

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Current Talk '08 II / Re: Discuss: '91 Series - Pilot - Part 1
« on: September 16, 2008, 08:09:55 PM »
Re: accents - Liz sounds extremely English as well, which is rather odd, since absolutely no one else in the family (that was born in the 20th century, that is [ghost_wink]) sounds English at all.

I have a friend who grew up in rural Arkansas with an Arkansan father and a Cockney mother and his accent was the strangest mix I have ever heard from a US born American!

So, I suppose at some point after Carolyn learned to talk, Liz decided to put on a few airs!   [ghost_grin]

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Current Talk '08 II / Re: Discuss: '91 Series - Pilot - Part 1
« on: September 16, 2008, 07:59:44 PM »
Has anyone else ever noted or commented on the irony of an actor named "Cross" being cast as a vampire?   [ghost_tongue2]

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Testing. 1, 2, 3... / Re: Robservations and Opinions From Episode 1 Onward
« on: September 15, 2008, 06:59:25 PM »
However, that Watching project started with 210 didn't it?

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Current Talk '08 II / Re: Did David Henesy leave??
« on: September 15, 2008, 05:55:05 PM »
I'm not 100% certain, but ISTR reading of some friction between David and his (stage) mother that has soured his memories of his time on DS.  Last I heard he owned a restaurant in NYC and has put DS far behind him. 

I would be happy to be proven wrong, of course!

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Calendar Events / Announcements '08 II / Re: Grayson's Sanka commercial on YouTube
« on: September 14, 2008, 08:57:44 PM »
I'd pay to see that bra commercial - the odd thing is, I seem to have a very very vague memory of having seen it when I was a child.....

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Current Talk '08 II / Re: Discuss - Ep #0627
« on: September 14, 2008, 06:43:25 PM »
was there ever any explanation why Chris transforms but not Tom? Is Tom still under 21 when dies?  Or does the curse only affected the eldest child?

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Current Talk '08 II / Re: Discuss: '91 Series - Pilot - Part 1
« on: September 14, 2008, 05:54:22 PM »
What was the deal "letterboxing" it.  Did Sony see all the boom mikes that drifted into shot and assumed that they were meant to be "removed" by the black bars?

BTW, is anyone keeping an eye out for said boom mikes?

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Current Talk '08 II / Re: Q for el Presidente...
« on: September 14, 2008, 05:47:54 PM »
Quote from: rainingwolf on September 09, 2008, 01:53:44 PM
I think I'd vote for Willie!
I'm with you on Willie, but unfortunately, the opposing party would waste no time in "digging up" his past record:  petty thievery, hot tempered, stalking, kidnapping, attempted murder, sent to a mental institution....  [ghost_tongue2]

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Current Talk '08 II / Re: Discuss: '91 Series - Pilot - Part 1
« on: September 14, 2008, 04:15:20 PM »
Quote from: mscbryk on September 14, 2008, 05:08:29 AM
and i find the tone of these comments,whether intended or not,to be quite insulting.
I for one apologize for the harshness of my comment about tax fraud.  No disdain or insult was intended.  I simply did not see how you could read tax fraud into the playful banter of that scene, but even though you yourself dismissed the comment later, you put it out there.  It's only fair that others will remark on it.  (TBH, I'm surprised no one has blasted me for suggesting that Carolyn was trying to seduce Vicki ....  [ghost_wink] )

I agree with your observation that the building of suspense was perhaps compromised by introducing the idea of a vampire so early in the narrative.  I generally think that in places the writing of the pilot (though credited to I think four writer's, including DC) has DCs fingerprints all over it, and shows DC's willingness to sacrifice character and exposition and suspense, to "hurry up and get his vampire freak on."

Having said that, I'm okay with that to a certain extent.  Like my earlier comments about Willie, I like that Patterson and co. aren't defaulting to the most likely scenario and thinking outside the box.  At this point, their thinking outside the box amounts to a madman who thinks he's a vampire (because we all know real vampires don't exist).

[spoiler]Patterson also won more respect from me in an episode down the road, when he reveals that Barnabas has been his prime suspect pretty much all along, but that's for another week ....[/spoiler]

I hope that you will reconsider, and will be joining us for the rest of the project.  [ghost_smiley]

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Current Talk '08 II / Re: What were they thinking?
« on: September 14, 2008, 04:23:13 AM »
Quote from: KMR on September 12, 2008, 11:20:57 PM
I'll be quite happy to take Chris and/or Todd [sic] Jennings...
That would be an "and" for me...   [ghost_tongue2] [ghost_wink]

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Current Talk '08 II / Re: Discuss: '91 Series - Pilot - Part 1
« on: September 14, 2008, 04:11:23 AM »
My 666th post! [laughing6]

Okay, one of the frustrating things is that there are some characters that I suspect will become more prominent and I have no idea who they are.

Just about everyone else gets a name but who is the doctor that treats Daphne?  Hiram?  Same with the man Sheriff Patterson visits.  Based on what we've seen so far, I don't recall his name being used nor really what the heck Patterson was doing there in the first place.  What is their relationship?  Based on the dialogue, it seems that Patterson goes to this guy when confronted with a case outside the mainstream, which would indicate to me that Collinsport is an occasional hotbed of weird activity.  Yet nowhere else in the episode (prior to Barnabas' appearance) is there any indication that Collinsport is such a place.  If it were, then why does Sam let Daphne walk out of the Blue Whale alone at night without a second thought.  But Patterson goes to see this guy in the house with strange supernatural items all through it?  And thanks him with an "As always, thanks for your help" ?

I'm not intrigued by this yet, merely mildly annoyed that the writing here is a bit sloppy (IMHO, of course.)

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Current Talk '08 II / Re: Discuss: '91 Series - Pilot - Part 1
« on: September 13, 2008, 10:29:49 PM »
Quote from: Mysterious Benefactor on September 13, 2008, 07:50:22 PM
There are also a few bits and pieces that were shot that are not even included on MPI's VHS. They are:
I got the distinct impression from both the dvd and the VHS (I found and watched Pilot part 1 earlier this afternoon) that there was something unseen in the pick up between Victoria and Willie.

Interesting that there is that continuation of the scene on the beach with David and Roger.  Just reading it, it sounds too hokey for words!  [ghost_tongue2]

A couple of comments on the VHS version of Pilot Part 1:  The additional scenes greatly improve the part 1, being all character bits that make the show overall more interesting, sufficiently so, that I change my mind.  I probably wouldn't have given up on the series if it was the VHS version I had seen first.  Although, in the longer scene between Victoria and Carolyn I couldn't decide if Carolyn was welcoming her or trying to seduce her.  She really came across as a bit predatory.  At this moment, I really am wondering if Carolyn is lesbian, especially with the absence of the kissing Joe scene at the hospital.

I know things sometimes have to be trimmed for time but it's a crying shame that more often than not, it the bits that make the characters seem more human and interesting that are left out.  (Star Trek: The Motion Picture comes immediately to my mind in this regard.  The theatrical release is a bit of a chore to get through, but when when I saw the extended version some years later, the 11 minutes they put back in were all character and exposition, that not only made the characters more real to me, but now the film made a lot more sense!)

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Current Talk '08 II / Re: Discuss: '91 Series - Pilot - Part 1
« on: September 13, 2008, 06:49:16 PM »
Point of order - I've tried studiously to treat the revival as the only DS for the purposes of this project, but other vampire genre shows/films have crept into my comments.  That's okay isn't it?

Your obedient servant,
Nelson Collins

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Current Talk '08 II / Re: Discuss: '91 Series - Pilot - Part 1
« on: September 13, 2008, 06:32:51 PM »
Interesting you should mention that, Gerard.  I was just thinking that this morning rewatching the pilot part 1, and when Barn was approaching the house, I suddenly wondered if (like the vamps in the recent Underworld series) vampires take more than just nourishment from their victims' blood, absorbing memories and experiences as well?

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