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Caption This! - 1897 / Re: Episode #0769
« on: March 23, 2006, 06:12:33 PM »
I knew for a fact that you'd get that one...
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ROGER: So you don't like my brandy?
SAM: That taste like stupid shoe polish!
I liked Violet Welles' stuff too.
I'm a big fan of Francis Swann and I'm really coming to appreciate Malcolm Marmorstein's material.
When I watch DS now, I play a little game where I try to guess the writer (and lately the director). I've never been able to get a handle on either Ron Sproat or Gordon Russell's style. They're both very generic for some reason. I have come to dislike Sam Hall's scripts (please don't stone me). I used to be a big Art Wallace fan, but his work got tired and his pace was slow--and that's considering that I'm a fan of strong character-based approach!
I liked the hat, I think. For some unknown reason almost every other male actor on the show (excepting Dr. Woodward) who wore hats looked horrible. They were either too small or too dorky and it just was very unattractive.
No kidding! Barnabas especially looked like a dork in that very first episode when he showed up in that ridiculous hat! Thing was a least 2 sizes too small and he wore it askew (because it was too small?). For some reason poor Jonathan had everything too small, his hat, his coffin...
Then, in 1897 he didn't even bother to wear his top hat, only carried it around in a couple eps. Guess it was too small too, LOL! Â
but i suspect that the writers believed(rightly or wrongly)that after all that had preceeded it they couldn't return to more "normal" soap opera storytelling because it might turn off those "kids that ran home from school".they needed to constantly sate the pre-teen attention span.
i loved the jason mcquire blackmail plot but it's unlikely that it would have rivited many twelve year olds.
in some ways they created a monster.the youth audience brought the show its greatest success but they became captive of it and could never again gear a storyline strictly at an adult audience.