Welcome back, Sarah.  I'm so sorry about your stepfather, but at least you got some good news at the same time.

i agree with you that...Frid's way of talking did make it beliveable and I enjoy the language people used on Dark Shadows anyway...just seems more old fashion I guess, and not because it was from the 1960's just seem like it was older than that.

I was quite struck at one point today when Amy said "neither," pronouncing it "nye-ther" - it had such a grown-up sound to it.

I was pleasantly surprised today to notice that they had faint scratch marks on Carolyn's cheek.  I wouldn't have even thought of it if it hadn't been there, but seeing it really surprised me that they remembered to do it.

Welcome back!!    

Back when the "death" story was new, I posted rather obliquely about this conclusion, not wanting even a spoiler warning to possibly ruin it for anyone new.

I love this finale.  The whole suspense that the wolf would find Carolyn, her wanting to protect her daughter, and that that's what finally enables her to reach the push button.  And, it proves that she was right to have the button and the bell system set up - can you imagine if they had disobeyed her?!!  And then, to still be pronounced dead but suddenly show up!!! (I had forgotten that part.)

Actually, the death story doesn't really go on that long.  It's stretched out over a long period of time, but except for a couple of episodes, they don't spend that much time on it.  And then, during the Vicki wedding story and it's aftermath, Liz went back to being pretty normal.

So, I feel it's worth it to have all of that just to set up this marvelous outcome!!

I think Vicki is supposed to be a couple of years older than Carolyn, so it seems quite possible that Liz could have married Paul after giving birth.  Jason hinted something to Vicki once about knowing about her.  We (and she) couldn't tell if he really did or was just trying to be mean to her.  It's possible that Paul and/or Jason knew something.

In this case I wasn't touched by Amy's fear of losing people close to her, but found it more sinister.  There were times in earlier conversations with Barnabas or someone that thoughts on that order seemed genuine.  But now, it's clearly just part of the game and being said for Maggie's benefit, to get them out of trouble.  It's as though she's overcome those real feelings (or has buried them because of Quentin) enough to be able to realize that the adults will really be taken by such a reason and so says it just to fool them.  Rather eerie.

There was recently a thread comparing the ghosts of Quentin and Gerard and I had forgotten how ominous Quentin looked as a ghost.

However, I never understood how he was suddenly free to get to the cottage.  Up until now it has seemed as though he were confined to that room and was using the children to do things elsewhere.  

Maybe I'm still not understanding your explanations, but I can't believe I'm the only one with a problem!!

My interpretation of your previous replies is that "Marking all topics as read" on the main board will prevent the "new" tags from returning on the old posts.  But, that it hasn't been fixed like that for the Archive yet.

Meanwhile, I keep getting all those old "new" items and have to keep marking them as read.  When I first come, I don't want the "real" new ones to be marked as read, so I can't click on that.

Today they were all back again.  I noticed that a couple of the fixed topics at the top of the main discussion board said new, even though their last date was some time ago.  So, I clicked on thosed 2 to "get rid of them."  That's when I figured all the others were probably back, so before checking for my real new posts, I brought up Luciaphil and Robservations and then the Discussion Archives and sure enough, they were filled with new items.

Even after eliminating all of that, it took forever for the new items to appear.  It turned out that all of the old posts from the main discussions were also brought up - more than 8000 posts!!!!!

Sorry to be so long-winded with all of this!!  Anyway, #1 - why doesn't my "Marking all posts as read" on the main board fix it, as I thought you said it would?  And, #2 - why doesn't anyone else have this problem?  I can't imagine that no one else would mention it if it happened to them.