I just did it on mine.  Thanks tons, MB!  You're a wiz!

Of course, when you click remove, this thing comes up pleading for you not to uninstall it, saying that it doesn't do "annoying" things.  I showed it no mercy.

Gerard

Happy birthday, Julia99!  The way to determine if you're middle-aged is to convert it to dog years.  Then use whatever figure makes you the most comfortable.

Gerard

You hang in there, Annie!  You know you're in all our thoughts.  Everything's gonna be fine, so don't you worry.  You let us do that for you!

Gerard

Congratulations, Mark!  As a writer whose works will never see the light of day, I envy you.  You make us proud as we live vicariously through you!

Gerard

That is true that no mention of a ship is made except that Gerard had served with Quentin on board a ship, but the name of the ship is not mentioned that I recall.

However in the case of the Children, that plotline is made to be very important in 1970.  You are led to believe that not only was David and Haley in danger in 1970 but that it was somehow a rehashing of what happened to Tad and Carrie in 1840.  However in the end, the children are really not prime players in this segment.  Carrie is more so than Tad, but neither are put in the kind of danger that Daphne seems to fear for David and Haley in 1970, yet she clearly asks Gerard if it has to happen like it did before?  In the end, you wonder why the children were involved in the whole matter at all in 1970.  Unlike with 1897 where the events of 1968 and 1969 play a role in the plot line of the past, with the concern being for David in the future, no such thing happens with this plot.

I'm wondering if it's possible that they simply just deviated from the original plot for 1840 they had earlier sketched out.  The 1897 story changed almost instantly from what they originally intended.  It was suppose to last only three months and there were apparently many differences from the 1897 "bible" and what eventually transpired on the small screen such as, I believe, Jenny being Edward's wife, not Quentin's.  But almost immediately, they began to shuffle characters around when something else popped up (like Diana Millay becoming available, so they rehashed the Laura story).  And, of course, as viewership skyrocketted, they just continued to add more and more until the 1897 tale went from three months to almost nine.

So maybe that happened with the 1840 plot.  It was laid out on paper, but the red pen quickly altered it without any thought to consistency and things already made clear in 1970 (such as Tad and Carrie dying at almost the exact time Quentin I did back in 1840; what was the importance of the Java Queen in all this; etc.).

Gerard

Actually, Fran, "lilly to her voice" is very appropriate!  I like that term - I think you've just created a new turn-of-the-words!

And I do like Miss Bennett's portrayal of our flighty cousin.  In a way, she reminds me of Carl Collins, but without the childish naughtiness found in him.

I think many of us have a Cousin Flora somewhere in our families.  Mine was an uncle's "girlfriend".  She was a nice lady, but so flighty she made Flora look like Judith Collins.

Gerard

The discrepencies are just another example of the Dark Shadows time-space-continuum warp.  Another example is saying how all the events of the winter of 1795/96 suddenly happened in 1797.  The Dark Shadows TSCW comes in very handy.  I even use it to understand the "connection" between Leticia and Pansy Faye.  You see, it's like the one drawer everyone has in their kitchen.  For most of your stuff, there's a drawer for everything, but then you have the junk that's useful, but has no category and no place to go, so it all just goes into that one drawer.  The drawer makes no sense, but it's sure handy to have around.

Gerard

And I'm not sure, but I think the edge of a camera quickly slipped in at one point.  Maybe the crew had gone out for a liquid lunch that day before filming.

Gerard