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Current Talk '09 I / Re: Quentin's Kin
« on: April 13, 2009, 04:01:52 PM »
Quentin's parents were never named.  That generation was never mentioned on DS, except for a Caleb Sayers Collins who died in 1872 and was probably Quentin's uncle.

In 1840, they were away at school and not seen or named.

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Jeremiah's ghost had the appearance of a mummy with all the bandages wrapped around it's face.

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Current Talk '09 I / Re: The Original Ended 38 Years Ago Today!
« on: April 02, 2009, 01:54:20 PM »
Actually, a Blue Ray player will play all your DVD's so you dont have to replace any of them.

1840 turned into a mess when they decided to have a witch trial ina time period far too removed from the witch hysteria days.  Perhaps Judah Zachary placed a spell on the townspeople.  The summer of 1970 indicated the townspeople knew Gerard was the bad guy all along judging from his tombstone (which actually has the correct year of his death- 1841).

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It's best they didn't stay in 1897.  Although Judith & Edward were more interesting, it was nice to see Liz, Roger, and the present time family again.

1897 was too long, it should have wound up after the Quentin death was resolved.

1897 is the one DS story that I can't think of a moment where the climax of the plot was.  It would have been the Quentin death resolution, but the story continued on for two more months.

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I saw a copy of a Soap Opera magazine from 1969 where it states that following 1897, DS was going to have a story involving a mummy.

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Current Talk '09 I / Re: Discuss - Ep #0742
« on: March 25, 2009, 06:18:59 PM »
Perhaps there are two different Lauras from the following:

1767: Laura Murdoch Stockbridge
1785: Laura Stockbridge Collins
1867: Laura Murdoch Radcliffe
1897: Laura Murdoch Collins
1967: Laura Murdoch Collins

The Laura of 1897 is almost 100 years from the 1785 version
The Laura of 1966 is 100 years separate from both prior incarnations

That Inside the Old House article had a great explanation for this.

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Current Talk '09 I / Re: Discuss - Ep #0742
« on: March 25, 2009, 01:54:04 PM »
I have that issue of Inside the Old House (in a box somewhere in the closet- so the paper doesn't yellow as fast). 

Would it be OK to post it here?

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Current Talk '09 I / Re: Discuss - Ep #0738
« on: March 24, 2009, 04:33:03 PM »
I never understood why he was so alarmed about seeing Laura.  Obviously she was there originally and the family continued to the present time.  It made no sense for Barnabas to feel he had to interfere at all to protect the family.

He intentionally distracts himself from his purpose of being there by involving himself in things not connected to Quentin & David in the present.  Its like he forgets for a while his mission.

For all it's flaws, the 1840 storyline was mostly free of Barnabas interfering with events as they happened.

Finally, are we supposed to believe that with all the lookalikes that Barnabas has encountered through 3 different centuries, he meets a woman with the same name as one who died more than 100 years before and he automatically assumes she's the same person?  [hdscrt]

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Current Talk '09 I / Re: Discuss - Ep #0742
« on: March 24, 2009, 04:17:29 PM »
I believe she became a Phoenix after her death by fire in Egypt just as she became a Phoenix in 1966 after her death in her Phoenix apartment by fire.

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Calendar Events / Announcements '09 I / Re: Joan as a bride
« on: March 02, 2009, 01:10:09 AM »
I was thinking the same thing about pretending it being Liz and Paul's wedding!  The woman behind Liz could have been her mother.

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Current Talk '09 I / Dark Shadows False Memory Syndrome
« on: February 12, 2009, 06:07:34 PM »
It was mentioned in another post about DS actors remembering things quite differently then the way the actually happened (ex. Joan Bennett saying "Welcome to Hollywood".

I read the following in cast interviews over the years:

Louis Edmonds always claimed the last role he played on DS was a butler for the Collins family

Donna Wandrey said that in a Summer 1970 episode as she was reading a horoscope, David Selby & Chris Pennock couldn't keep themselves from laughing and Selby threw himself on the table trying to hide his laughing and throwing the cards off and they didnt stop the tape.


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Calendar Events / Announcements '09 I / Re: NYC Comic Con
« on: February 08, 2009, 06:00:46 PM »
I checked with information when I got there and he wasn't listed.  I looked all around but didn't see him there.

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Calendar Events / Announcements '09 I / NYC Comic Con
« on: February 06, 2009, 05:31:22 PM »
Is anyone going to the Comic Con at the Javits Center this weekend?  I will be there all three days.

Maybe they will have some DS comics for sale.

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Current Talk '09 I / Re: Whatever Happened to Burke Devlin?
« on: February 05, 2009, 05:26:06 PM »
In the Bennett Playbill, Joan Bennett stated that she liked her co-stars except for Roger Davis.  She said "He thinks he is Henry Fonda, and he is not."

It seemed Tony Peterson was orignally meant to replace Burke, but it never worked out that way.

I well remember Joan Bennett in her autobiography describing how difficult it sometimes was to get through a scene because of the chaos that surrounded them on the set.  Nevertheless, I do think that she had some good times during her years on DS.

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Current Talk '09 I / Re: Discuss - Ep #0719
« on: February 01, 2009, 06:45:27 PM »
Thats interesting because in the original timeline,

[spoiler]Either Judith or Edward must have been responsible for Quentin's death.  They must have shot him in werewolf form (after murdering Beth perhaps?) and let him die on the chair and sealed off the room[/spoiler]

I enjoyed Quentin's warning to Judith not to think of murdering him.  She must have thought he was crazy!  And the thing about Judith is that I don't think it's wise to put ideas in her head.  As far as I can tell, she believes herself to be a good, God-fearing woman, but self-righteousness could lead her into some very unChristian acts.  What an interesting scene in Quentin's bedroom when she avoided telling him why she didn't want him to play his music!