Quote from: BuzzH on July 30, 2007, 07:38:31 PM

Nah, the Collinsport slogan should be: Home of the 24 hour coffin store!  

That's pretty good alright, but how about, "Personalized Tombstones on Demand."
Yes, you too can afford the luxury and expense of a personalized tombstone in a matter of minutes.
Your family and friends will succumb to gravestones that move in the slightest breeze.
For two easy payments of $19.95, you and your family will enjoy hours of non-stop laughter as the Collinsport Cemetary graves come to life. Free burial not included.

But wait!  There's more!  Act now and get free (FREE!) the new Ginsu hammer and chisel and guide on changing the spelling of the dearly departed's name  or their birth and death years!

I have not seen the Leviathan story yet, but at a guess, I think the writers wanted to show the Leviathans as a nastier lot by having them kill the killing the fan-beloved Victoria.  Since previous attempts to recast the role met with failure, perhaps the writers didn't have a problem with killing her off in this way.

Or since the storyline was not very popular (IIRC, ratings plummeted diuring this story), they needed a way to wrap it up quickly and using the Bradford/Shadow plot they were able to dispatch Jeb sooner than they originally planned?  All pure supposition on my part.

Burn?

Or melt?  

Back when Julia was hypnotizing Vicki and then taking her to the Old House and showing her Barnabas in the coffin, one time she had Carolyn go to make tea or coffee and while she was doing that, she did the hypnosis, went to the Old House, looked in the coffin, came back and "unhypnotized," before Carolyn returned with the coffee!!!

Julia knew that Carolyn was sooo ditzy, that Carolyn would have spent at least half an hour searching for a servant to tell to make the coffee before remembering that Liz had fired all the staff 18 years previously!

As Sarah had warned Barnabas that she would not appear to him ever again unless he was good, I think she was keeping her word.  However heroic we may have come to see Barnabas, however much we may consider him a tragic victim of circumstance, he continued to do bad, thoughtless, even cruel and evil things after the 1795 Flashback.  Personally,  I think she knows exactly who Barn is in 1840 1897 1995 etc.  She doesn't appear because she is keeping her word (and she knows she is not part of these events).

Sarah is a curious creature.  One is never quite sure exactly what she is all about.  Is she simply an oblivious spirit who doesn't know she's dead?  Is she fully aware of who and what she is and uses it?  Is she there to stop Barnabas from being destroyed (obviously, the original idea was to destroy him).  Her motives/agenda seem to change with her every appearance.

I would consider that Sarah, as a supernatural being, knows already much of what happened with Barnabas in the course of the series.   Her appearances in 1967 were in part to try to save him.  And I think save him she did.  I think she knows/knew exactly what she was doing in appearing to help Maggie and Sam and Dr Woodard and David.  In a way she was the catalyst for everything that happened after her mission was accomplished by spiriting Vicki into the past. With that one act, Sarah made the show we came to know come and love into being.

without Sarah's help, Barnabas may not have ever regain any kind of moral center - he would have been eventually killed, Willie probably killed, Hoffman certainly dead.  Vicki probably would never have vanished into the past.  The Adam storyline (sans his connection to Barnabas) would also have been bereft of Ang and Nicholas and Adam himself would probably have been Jeff Clark, though that would mean nothing to Vicki.  Then of course, the whole Quentin Jennings affair would have ended in tears with both Jennings' boys dead (both probably werewolves that were destroyed, but then Quentin would have possessed David and Amy and they might have died, and the vengeful ghost would have succeeded in driving everyone out of Collinwood.

Not sure any of this makes any sense - I'm sick and cannot sleep and it's 2 am!

I don't know if we should necessarily blame MPI for all these cuts on the first DSB set. Why do I still suspect that a certain someone who was responsible for "tweaking" the DS episodes for the Sci-Fi Channel's runs is also behind this latest bout?    All in the name of "improvement," of course. ... NOT! 

Are these deliberate cuts, or just dvd authoring errors?

"Undead Like Me"

Ohhhhh, I'm just a girl who cain't say no / I'm in a terrible fix....