Z is for zig zag - what most of the cast had to do on the forest set to make it look like they were walking a lot further than they really were....

T is for taxi - apparently there is only one in Collinsport.

Ina O'Donnell - a nurse at the foundling home (gave Victoria a doll when she was a child)

Quote from: Nelson Collins on January 21, 2007, 05:51:30 PM

Independent wealthy (widowed?) women like the Countess were very rare.

Do we know for a fact that the Countess had never been married? Is it possible she is a widow and came to live with Andre and Josette after Andre's wife died to provide that older female companionship to Josette? I don't remember it ever being said that she had never married. We can see in the storyline that Natalie loved Josette and they were very close. If she had been married to a Count who had died she would still be a Countess.

I think sometimes we assume that the Grayson Hall characters were all spinsters, except for Magda.

I am guessing she either married into the DuPres family (Andre's brother in France) then fled to Martinique when the Count (and most of the other aristos that did not run) was guillotined during the outbreak of the Revolution, or she is Andre's blood sister, married a count, and when he was executed, kept the title but took back her family name DuPres when she rejoined Andre and Josette in Martinique.
 

Josette needed a better Father. He didn't really protect her at all.

True, but women were property then worth only their dowry or married to provide business opportunities for the family (as in the DuPres/Collins alliance).

He may have loved and doted on her, but she was still a possession.  Independent wealthy (widowed?) women like the Countess were very rare.

Hey the Vampire meets the werwolf. Wasn't that an abbott and costellow movie.

Yes, but probably the most well-known vampire/werewolf pairing around these parts (not counting Angel season Five) would have to be Barn/Quentin!

I hope that were I to find myself in that position, I'd have the sense to say, "Oh, deary me, I don't know what happened, and I don't understand it at all!  Please, Miss Abigail, burn those clothes and PRAY with me!  Oh, Reverend Trask, please PRAY for me!"

Agreed.  If she'd shown some foresight and been seen to enter church and spout the Lord's Prayer on occasion, especially when she could be sure that Abigail was watching or even go with her, that might have solved some problems...

It still irks me a little though.  Angelique is the only person in all this that benefits from the "witch" Vicky's actions.  I mean, did the snooty Collinses perhaps think that a servant girl marrying into the family was part and parcel of the witch's goal of destroying the family or something?

The clothes part always gets me.  "I'll need those clothes!"  She knew that she had other clothes to wear in 1967,  and she could reasonably assume that if she ever got back to her own time, her friends would not reject her for temporarily wearing strange clothes - so why couldn't she let that one outfit go?

I still maintain, however (until the next time I watch 1795), that Vicky thought she was in a nightmare - literally - so she though it was OK to say all the stupid things that she said.

I do seem to recall that she did think she was in some kind of a nightmare for a time so some of her reactions at first were natural.  She had no past experience at all to fall back on, so yes "nightmare" seemed the most logical "default setting."

However.....teaching Sarah and Daniel about airplanes, and describing the ram's head on her zodiac charm bracelet (!!!) as a "devil" to them (done IIRC off screen and mentioned as evidence against her at the trial) well, gosh, Vicky, if that was true them may as well start tying the noose now.

Regarding the clothes, well, you know how fashion conscious Collinsport girls are!   But you have a point.  After all, she does still have that happenin' red long sleeved sack dress with the blue trim waiting for her at home.... 

I liked the way the revival series handled the clothes issue. I haven't seen it since is originally aired, but IIRC, Abigal is examining Vicky's dress and finds the cleaning instructions tag, with reference to using a "cool iron" and the washing symbols that she thinks are witch's sigils or somesuch. Very amusing.

But what about Nathan Forbes. ??

Well, perhaps Don Briscoe played Nathan   and Christopher Pennock as Alexis, Josef's manservant, prone to fits of jealousy and a dabbler in the black arts.....