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Current Talk '08 I / Re: End of the Road
« on: January 16, 2008, 12:03:05 AM »
I'm always the only one saying this, but I think continuing in RT 1971 would have been impossible because of all the contradictions between what happened in 1840 and 1966-70. History was changed so much that the events and people we knew would have been retroactively cancelled out.
Also, I think they decided that it had been a mistake noy to leave the show in 1897, and after having gone to this much trouble to get DS back to a more atmospheric time, they weren't about to throw that away. I think it's likely that when 1995-1970-1840 was concocted in the first place, people said, "And this time we're staying in the past and never coming back, damn it! We're not making the same mistake twice!"
Someone asked about networks letting soaps tie up their final storylines nicely. TV networks aren't creative organizations, they just employ creative people whom they believe can make money for them. Once the executives decided to cancel DS, that meant they no longer cared about it. (No video sales in the picture.) I was impressed that they were allowed to wrap up the 1841 PT Cursed Room storyline, and before that, Barnabas's and Angelique's stories were wrapped up. (Future now secure, no vampirism, no curse, no witch after him, BC purged of obsessive romances, even, maybe... happy ending)
Who took over DS when, from whom?
Also, I think they decided that it had been a mistake noy to leave the show in 1897, and after having gone to this much trouble to get DS back to a more atmospheric time, they weren't about to throw that away. I think it's likely that when 1995-1970-1840 was concocted in the first place, people said, "And this time we're staying in the past and never coming back, damn it! We're not making the same mistake twice!"
Someone asked about networks letting soaps tie up their final storylines nicely. TV networks aren't creative organizations, they just employ creative people whom they believe can make money for them. Once the executives decided to cancel DS, that meant they no longer cared about it. (No video sales in the picture.) I was impressed that they were allowed to wrap up the 1841 PT Cursed Room storyline, and before that, Barnabas's and Angelique's stories were wrapped up. (Future now secure, no vampirism, no curse, no witch after him, BC purged of obsessive romances, even, maybe... happy ending)
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I now think that once Sam Hall and Company took over
Who took over DS when, from whom?