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ALL-TIME FAVORITE DS MOMENT:
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Barnabas returning to the Old House for the first time in 1967. It's easy saying it with hindsight, but watching it for the first time, you just know it's the beginning of something really special.
FAVORITE OH YUCK, THAT WAS AWFUL, BUT CAN I SEE IT
AGAIN? MOMENT:
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Petofi plunging a glass into Quentin's face -- unusually brutal for the show and it sets up the twist that follows perfectly.
FAVORITE GHOST:
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Josette -- something wistful and eerie about her first appearances that always sticks with me.
FAVORITE I DIDN'T LIKE THEM AT FIRST, BUT THEN THEY
GREW ON ME CHARACTER:
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Vicki. She's strictly 40 watt and never really seems to learn, but deep down she's fundamentally vulnerable, and I grew to like that eventually. Changing into Carolyn Groves didn't hurt matters either.
BEST CLUELESS IN COLLINWOOD CHARACTER:
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Roger -- blessed with sufficient arrogance and stupidity to generally discount the supernatural altogether, again and again...
FAVORITE SCENE STEALER:
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John Karlen -- he's got such a kinetic, dangerous quality about his performances.
FAVORITE STORYLINE OR PLOT:
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The Phoenix storyline -- it's an interesting coming-of-age story for David in some respects, having his rose-tinted illusions about his mother horrifically removed. And interesting to have a villain without any real malice, just a callous conviction to carrying out her existence. And it scores bonus points for actually having the characters acknowledge that this stuff is out of the ordinary.
WORST STORYLINE:
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Liz's premature burial... Did we really need six months of harping on about nothing to write Joan Bennett out for a couple of weeks? Surely a visit to Bangor would have sufficed.
FAVORITE ROMANCE OR ROMANTIC MOMENT:
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Barnabas returning to the Old House after discovering Josette has eloped. When he turns to a crestfallen Angelique and announces: "In spite of it, I still love her" it's not denial, it's utter conviction and there's a lot of pathos that the usual "oh my poor Josette" stuff often lacked.
FAVORITE VILLAIN:
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Count Petofi -- gotta love someone who can talk of death and destruction like the most agreeable of dinner guests.
WORST COUPLE:
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Chris Jennings and Sabrina Stuart. Ick.
FAVORITE COUPLE:
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Maggie and Joe -- sweet, believable people who obviously cared for each other a great deal.
I WISH THEY HAD GOT TOGETHER, BUT THEY DIDN'T COUPLE:
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Stokes and Elizabeth. Two characters of a similar age with similar values and convictions, both of whom strike me as fundamentally lonely.
CHARACTER YOU WISH THEY HAD USED MORE:
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Roger. Louis Edmonds was such a brilliant performer that he could be enjoyable and memorable doing pretty much nothing, which rather sums Roger up post-1967. He's criminally underused.
FAVORITE SUSPENSE:
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Maggie turns up at the Blue Whale, to greet a room of people who don't know she's dead and expose Barnabas! Yikes! And Barnabas is utterly terrified! The stakes rarely get higher in the show.
THIS HAD ME ON THE FLOOR LAUGHING MOMENT:
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"Then go to the house of the..." [dies]
FAVORITE DS BLOOPER:
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"Seemed like a hundred miles!" Quite.
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