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Messages - Gerard

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Current Talk '03 I / Re:Playin' With Fire....but I Gotta
« on: May 23, 2003, 12:34:39 AM »
Oh, Luciaphil, you hit the nail right on the head!  Pennock has some mighty good scenes in his other characters [spoiler]even though I hated the PT1970 Jekyll and Hyde schtick[/spoiler].  As for poor Roger Davis, I didn't like a single character he played, nor his thespian ability.

Gerard

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Current Talk '03 I / Re:Playin' With Fire....but I Gotta
« on: May 22, 2003, 05:53:09 PM »
Oh, without a doubt, Roger Davis.

Gerard

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Current Talk '03 I / Re:Angelique's Portrait
« on: May 22, 2003, 05:50:56 PM »
Put the cursor over the blank space and highlight - then it'll appear.  I did it quite by accident.  Now I'm gonna do a quick test myself just to see if I can make a spoiler space.

[spoiler]Surprise!  Barnabas Collins is a vampire.[/spoiler]

Anyway, one quick comment about Angelique's portrait - actually about the house in which Angelique resides with the portrait and her husband.  A doorbell!  The place has a doorbell!  In vritual every residence, from Collinwood to Prof. Stokes quaint apartment, that gadget must not've arrived yet since everyone hasta knock.

Gerard

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Calendar Events / Announcements '03 I / Re:DS Mention
« on: May 19, 2003, 03:24:27 AM »
I just received my payment form from the DS Fest folks and there's a little piece about Dan Curtis saying that DS series might be in the works for 2004.

California is a beautiful state with many beautiful houses but I for one hope if this thing comes to pass, that he will consider going back east for filming.  There's just something about New England that is so intriguing and the west coast just can't measure up (and this is from a die-hard mid-westerner!).

Along with not having palm trees show up in the background ala DS '91.  But I've whined about that already.

Gerard

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Current Talk '03 I / Re:WELCOME TO TATE'S DRIVE THRU!!!
« on: May 19, 2003, 03:21:42 AM »
Of course, Tate coulda just gotten out his crayons and whipped up another Amanda (and all sortsa other stuff, like money, a mansion, a personality, etc.) at anytime.  Why he never did, we do not know.  But we've discussed that already.

Gerard

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Current Talk '03 I / Re:Johnny Boy???
« on: May 19, 2003, 03:18:06 AM »
I remember reading somewhere as to what he had been up to during his absence, but natch I can't remember now.  He was involved in some other things in his acting career is all I can recall.

Gerard

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Calendar Events / Announcements '03 I / Re:terry308 birthday
« on: May 19, 2003, 12:07:17 AM »
Celebrate and party-hardy, Terry!Gerard

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Current Talk '03 I / Re:Remembering the DS Plotlines?
« on: May 19, 2003, 12:03:29 AM »
One plotline that I remembered differently from when I first watched it as a kid was the whole reason why Quentin haunted Collinwood in the first place.  I was positive that it had to do with Petofi.  In the unchanged history, Petofi successfully possessed Quentin's body and when he went too far, his family shot him and bricked up the body in the bedroom.  So it was actually Petofi who was haunting Collinwood, not Quentin (but appearing as Quentin since he possessed his body when he died).  Barnabas goes back in time to solve the mystery as to why Quentin was spooking the place and manages to subvert Petofi's plans, thus preventing the haunting.  That's what I actually remembered.  Ironically, that's basically the story behind Gerard Style's future haunting.

Gerard

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Have a sunny, happy birthday, VictoriaWinters!

Gerard

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Current Talk '03 I / Re:Recap Episode
« on: May 16, 2003, 01:25:06 AM »
[size=8]GO GERARD!![/size]

You're almost there, too, Patti!  Hurry up!  I wanna shake (and not stir) another Blue Skyy!

Gerard

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Current Talk '03 I / Re:Recap Episode
« on: May 15, 2003, 10:16:58 PM »
it somehow got dropped when reformatted (for distribution)

Actually, the entire teaser did play in syndication before DS began its runs on the Sci-Fi Channel (it appears on the tape I'd made back in 1988). Why did it get dropped once DS began showing exclusively on Sci-Fi? Who knows?

Actually, I really liked how the episode opened sans narration, going right into the action of Barnabas telling Julia the whole sad, sordid tale.  It gave it a real intensity, like this-is-so-important-that-we-don't-have-time-to-catch-you-up.

Gerard (Hey, I just realized I've gone over 500 posts - I'll hafta pour myself a Blue Skyy martini tonight to celebrate.)

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Calendar Events / Announcements '03 I / Re:Happy B-day to Anibus
« on: May 15, 2003, 12:59:27 PM »
Have a good one, Anubis!

Gerard

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Current Talk '03 I / Re:The Jeb/Carolyn Romance
« on: May 15, 2003, 12:56:07 PM »
I am not a fan of any of Carolyn's romantic pairings, and that exception is Tony Peterson.

Tony was handsome, surprisingly tan for a Maine resident, blunt but honorable, yet lacking the undercurrent of brutishness that Burke Devlin possessed.  He was a perfect contrast/complement to Carolyn Stoddard, with her blonde hair, sense of entitlement, and fluid sense of morals.  Plus, Jerry Lacy and Nancy Barrett had great chemistry on-screen.  It's a shame that DC and Company didn't make the Carolyn-Tony relationship more of a priority instead of allowing it to fall by the wayside amidst the supernatural intrigues.

Regards,

John

Yeah, whatever happened to Tony Peterson?  After Angelique played him like a violin, that was the last ever seen of him.  I enjoyed Jerry Lacy in that role, and while I also enjoyed him in all his Trask incarnations, he was great playing the lawyer, and definitely the kinda man Carolyn needed.  Kinduva SPOILER here....................................Even in 1970PT they made him Trask, the butler.  It would have been far more appropriate to have made him Tony Peterson, the butler, since virtually all of the PT characters were the images of people from regular time.

Gerard

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Current Talk '03 I / Re:A Haunting At Collinwood??
« on: May 15, 2003, 12:49:33 PM »
Too bad (after Lady Kitty) Maggie got got duller and
always the victim! waste of talent IMHO

How true.  How much more interesting it would've been if they would've left some of that edge in Maggie when she became the governess.  (I liked it when you faintly saw that spark when she ragged on Michael.)  I don't mean the blonde-wig, Eve-Arden, you're-a-jerk in the first few episodes Maggie.  But just how she remained more tough in the first season, ala when she forced her father to come clean on the car accident.  Maggie with a touch of Patti and Selma (Marge Simpson's sisters) would have made for a great character.

Gerard

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Current Talk '03 I / Re:Of Bones and Boxes
« on: May 15, 2003, 12:37:51 PM »
(Who's wondering how much more it would've cost to just paint some cornflakes white and have them strewn about.)
I thought I had read once that TV/Movie sets used Ivory snow or potato flakes to try to make winter scenes look real.  Then again, you'd have to clean up the mess to make it look like summer again in the next scene.

And, I guess, not to mention having two types of trees:  leafed and leafless.  My favorite is when a winter scene, even a blizzard, is shot on an exterior set, and there amongst the huge drifts of snow are trees with their full bloom of foilage.  Little House On the Prairie was notorious for that.  But then, Dark Shadows '91 had palm trees sprouting in Collinsport, Maine.  No wonder they always had such mild winters there.

Gerard