I agree.  He's like Blanche and Jane Hudson, all rolled into one.

Oh.  My.  Goodness.

Good one, Gerard.

My question about Gabriel is this.  How the heck is he getting up and down the stairs in a wheelchair?  You know there is no way Collinwood had an elevator in the pre-electricity 1840's.

KLS will definitely missed by me, though I have to admit that in the last year or so of Dark Shadows she was criminally misused.  Can't say I blame her for getting gone.

Maggie as she first appears in episode 1, full of pluck and sass, is just wonderful!  Wish that more of this side of the character had been retained through the years.

Josette, although others may not agree, is an interesting and complex character.  She isn't quite the defenseless ingenue her family believes her to be, and KLS brilliantly portrayed her growing confusion, dread and horror as things around her started to go tragically and supernaturally wrong.

Although Rachel Drummond is perhaps not very bright and none too strong an individual, I think KLS did a good job bringing her to life.  Flawed though she is, it was sad to see her die needlessly.

Kitty, Lady Hampshire was IMHO the best of KLS's performances on the show.  Shady, duplicitious, and no better than she should be, it's clear that the actress had fun playing this character before the whole 'Josette amnesia' sank in.

Would that the writers had given KLS the chance to play Samantha Collins!  IMHO, 'Katy' definitely had the chops to play that nasty ice-queen.

She was there from day one, and I have to agree that Dark Shadows was just never the same after Kathryn Leigh Scott left the show!

LOVE the montage today, btw!  MB is there any way this can be saved somewhere in 'Member's Mausoleum' once the "real" board is back up?

Barnabas meets Bozo?!?!  Now that I've seen this thread, I know what's been wrong all day.  I never woke up, and this is all some crazy dream!!!

Another good example of how fast these folks forget things on DS!    (Don't ya wish we could forget the bad things as fast as they do!) 

Amen to that, sister!   

I do think many people undervalue any non-sexual bond between a man and a woman as if it simply isn't as important as a romantic relationship.  I have always disagreed with that notion.  Friendships are indeed a rock of survival for many even those also involved in a romantic relationships.  Emotional intimacy is a lot harder to develop and sustain.

I so agree, Nancy!  And even if we don't believe that Barnabas and Julia had mutual romantic feelings for each other, the friendship that they built over the years was amazingly solid.  This scene illustrates that perfectly.  Think back to 1967.  If she had betrayed him then (and he usually thought she had), his impulse was always choke first, ask questions later!

But by 1970, they had been through so much together.  It's nice to see that the writers had enough respect for the emotional intimacy between these characters to include this scene of closeness; it shows true growth - a hallmark of good television, IMHO. 

Oh SO boring...boring...boring!!!

Bob - totally loved your diatribe regarding what you'd like to have seen in 1995.  The bit about Barnabas and Julia at the Blue Whale listening to the hits of '95 on the jukebox (Gangsta's Paradise - ha!) was really too much.

Thanks for giving my morning a lift!


CB

Thanks very much for your replies, liz_collins and murph!

- CB