It's beautiful!  I love blue!

Gerard

You're a lot crazy, Borgosi!  Just like the rest of us!  That's why we're here!  But, seriously, I guess I would have to say that I watched it mostly for fun (I always loved horror, from as far back as I can remember).  But in retrospect I can say that it taught me that I could be creative.  I can escape, especially when things are stressful, to a world of fantasy.  Back then, when I watched it during its initial run, I identified closely with all those characters.  Why?  I really can't say.  But I fantasized about them, I played DS; they became my way of entering my personal world of getting away from things.  I found out it was okay to enter my creativity for just my own enjoyment.  Back in junior high, while DS was still on the air (it went off the air half-way through my junior high years), I even started to compose my own DS novel in my mind.  From that point on, I continued to create in my mind, and then I started to put pen to paper, and then when we finally got a portable typewriter (for those of you born after the mid eighties, that's what we used before computers and word; you might find one tucked away in a closet, attic or basement somewhere) I clacked away, and eventually on a computer. 

I've written hordes of short stories, several novels, a complete DS novel, and started on a second, epic DS novel that covered almost 50 years of the Collins family in the twentieth century.  None will ever see the publishing light of day.  It's hard to get published; actually, it's virtually impossible.  Gone are the days when budding authors could send manuscripts to the many varied publishing companies unsolicited (and without an agent!) and maybe one of them will pick it up and away you go.  That's how Stephen King got started.  Although he had quite a few short stories printed in magazines, when he sent his draft for Carrie to twelve, I believe, publishing firms, they all rejected it.  He planned on tossing it into the trash.  His wife Tabitha rescued it, sent it in to one more and, as they say, history was made.  When that happened, he and his wife were living in basically a hovel with no hot running water (he had to go to his mother's place to take a bath).  Now he's the richest author to ever come out of America.  He has stated, however, that if he started today and submitted the same works, all of which have made hundreds-of-millions, if not billions, he wouldn't stand a chance.  That's how it works in the publishing world today. 

But I don't care.  My works will never fill another mind with the stuff I've created.  I enjoy doing it, as a hobby.  And I credit DS for that.  It has taught me to enjoy my own world for my own joy. 

Gerard

That was so adorable!  And now I'm imagining that's what Adam and Eve would look like today, if they had stayed together back in 1968, leaving Collinsport, hoping to carry out their mission of creating a new super-race, but instead ending up having three kids, Adam ending up getting a job in an auto mechanic shop, working his way up to head of parts-and-repair, Eve starting off as a bank teller, making her way up to the ladder to director of personnel, and both now living in retirement in Boca.

Gerard

You know what I didn't like about it?  That I wasn't there!

Gerard  (Who's grateful that he got to attend one.)

The clarity is actually very good, David!  If someone has one of those wide-screen computer screens, it's fantastic.  I downloaded the scene where Barnabas arrives at Collinwood just for the heck of it.  And get rid of that cellphone!  My hatred for them climaxed when I was at the movies (I think it was Cloverfield) while, trying to enjoy the movie, suddenly - FLASH! - someone opened their cellphone to check whatever the heck they needed in their addictive obsession to check.  Minutes later - FLASH! - another one did it.  And the another one.  And then another one.  Fed up, I shouted as loud as I could:  "If you people don't have a life beyond those intrusive boxes, then stay at home."  I got a round of applause for it.  Afterwards, I asked if the manager was in.  He was and I told him he needs to ban anyone from bringing those annoying gadgets into the theater.  He said cellphone use is already prohibited and people are instructed to shut off the ringers.  I said it's not enough - they can't help but keep checking them every 42 seconds and it disrupts us who paid money to see a movie.  "Good point," he said.  Maybe I've started something.

Gerard

For anyone here who has not seen HoDS, it is on youtube - the entire movie.  It is in, of course, segments, so when one segment is done you have to click on to the next.  At least you get to see it.  I re-watched the original version of Dawn of the Dead, the one made in the late seventies, that way.  That was the first time since I originally saw it when it came out in movie theaters.  I really enjoyed it, because when I moved to Pittsburgh, PA in the mid-eighties, I often went to the mall where it had been filmed.  (DotD, not HoDS, although a DS movie set in a mall would be interesting, to say the least).

Gerard  (Who's right now reading Stephen King's Cell, a novel about how cellphones have turned users into murderous zombies, ala night-of-the-living-dead, which I'm also immensely enjoying because I absolutely, positively hate and detest cellphones; I had one and when the contract ran out I got rid of it and have never looked back and am doing just fine without one.  [Stephen King has stated he also hates them and doesn't have one - so there.  {Grrrrllllllloowwww!  - a murderous phone-crazy, as they're called in the novel, coming after you!}])

A remarkable story!  Has it been considered to have it turned into a film or even a mini-series? 

Gerard