With regards to Carrie, Midnite, yes and no.  (This is referring to the Brian De Palma version of 1976, not the 2002 made-for-TV version which was also fantastic).  The fundamentalist fantatic Margaret, the mom, utters the line after Carrie leaves her bedroom on the way to prom.  Later, while Carrie and her beau were at the prom, the scene switches to the mom who, in the kitchen of their home, picks up a knife and begins to chop away at carrots as if beheading them, giving indication of what she intended to do.

Gerard

BTW, who does Barnabas wind up with in your story- Julia, Angelique, Roxanne, or Maggie?

I won't blab, Charles, just in case I can somehow recover it.  If I can't, I'll blab.  Of course, I do have Maggie return (since, in my CDT version, the series continues and Dan Curtis does have TLATKLS come back to the series).  PT Roxanne also re-appears when Barnabas needs to return to parallel time.  He finds Quentin and Maggie living in the Loomis House, their marriage seriously on the rocks, things going really bad.  While Barnabas has to deal with his feelings for Roxanne along with another woman in that time for whom he deeply loves (won't say here), he also has to figure out what's really the cause of Quentin and Maggie's marital problems.  Something very foul is really afoot.  As for Angelique, well, I won't say right now either.

Gerard

For years, even decades, although I had watched the whole storyline in its original run, I had thought that it wasn't Quentin who had haunted Collinwood, but Petofi who had possessed Quentin's body and got "trapped" in it, the whole thing being revealed in the 1897 flashback.  When I finally saw it all over again on the Sci-Fi Channel in the early 90's, I was stunned how I could've been so wrong.  Classic FDSMS.  I also had another bout, but this one was understandable.  I clearly remembered in a scene in 1970PT, when Quentin and Maggie were in their bedroom and Maggie was changing, even though she had her back to the camera, she was topless - you saw her bare back.  Then when I saw it again on Sci-Fi, she was clearly wearing a slip.  Then something crossed my mind.  I had taped that episode and rewound it and then turned the color off on my TV (we only had a black-and-white set back in 1970; color TV was for, as my dad use to say, "fancy people") so it was black-and-white.  Sure enough, the color of the slip had blended in with the flesh color of Maggie's back.  Unless one looked very close, she appeared topless.  Vindication. 

I have a friend, another DS fanatic like me, who was convinced, in the classic blooper scene during an episode's closing credits. of Jonathan Frid walking through the Collinwood foyer carrying a cup of coffee.  I told him, no, he was carrying his costume.  No, he insisted, it was a cup of coffee.  I informed him I've seen that episode several times in Sci-Fi reruns.  No matter, according to him, I wasn't seeing it right.  It was a cup of coffee.  I'm sure if he even saw it again he still wouldn't be convinced.  Classic FDSMS.

Gerard

And then he could've had the whole gang sit down to do a "Our-Supernatural-Members-Are-Tearing-Our-Already-Dysfunctional-Family-Apart" chat and see who starts throwing the first chair.

Gerard

Several times, Gerard has mentioned writing his own CDTish continuation in novel form, adding that it isn't published anywhere.

Thanks for the mention, Midnite!  I did my own "version" of CTD's of what-would've-happed which spanned seven more years of the series.  I had all sorts of stories and plot-lines.  It was only "published" on-line as part of an old AOL (of which I haven't been a member for several years) DS message board.  That board, so far as I know, no longer exists.  I can't even pull it up myself as I did it in the old WordPerfect format which Microsoft no longer (except with expensive software) will no longer recognize.  But I sure had fun writing it.  I resolved, in my own way, several old story lines, including the return of Victoria Winter and added my own plots.  It ended with the entire family being wiped out by a curse established back in the 1500's in Ireland and Barnabas and Angelique returning to that time period in the old sod to save the family.  Charles Delaware Troll inspired me to do it.  It wasn't as highly detailed as his, just basic story lines, but even in that format it was about 40 pages.  I wish I had the software to transform it into Microsh*t Word so I could send it it anyone who asked.

Gerard

Oh Janet, you're so Wicked!

Gerard

Welcome, Michael, and let Marcy know she has all of our moral support, and if she needs any other type of support or help, you tell her just to say so and we'll be there as best we can.

Gerard

I've read that VCR's will still be around for a long time.  They still have not come up with something suitable, in the way of DVD's, to put a disc in, record, watch, erase, and start the whole process again.  Many satellite companies now have the ability to "tape" programs into one's system, but not everyone has satellite (scores of millions don't - I don't; I have cable).  When DS was on Sci-Fi, I taped it every day and watched it later at a convenient time (and fast-forwarded through the commercials).  I used the same tape for years, recording, watching, rewinding, re-recording.  You can't do that with a DVD player (and that's a good term for it - all it does is play instead of work).

Gerard