MB, you are amazing!  Chopin's Prelude in C Minor!  Simply wonderful.  I have been wondering about this for a long time.  Thanks for the mysterious answer. 

... the snippet you just quoted is supposedly typical of how social works specializing in disturbed children talk, amongst themselves, about their cases (and having been privy on occasion to such conversations, it's not really that wide off the mark).

"Psych eval" is okay for a coworker situation, though usage with clients/employers seems pretty brazen.  But "shrink" with your employer, your client...  It's rather unprofessional and comes across as typical Hollywood.  I've never heard either of the terms used around clients/families, and -- had I -- I probably would still be recovering from the shock.

Yes, I would agree that this Vicki seems like the most educated version of the character that we've seen.

 

She may be educated, but she isn't that smart if she can't understand the difference between a coworker and an employer. 

That is a very Vicki-thing to say.  I am also saddened it was cut. 

Obviously, Gerard, the exposé on Collinsport's "STAR" publishing program was to be slowly unveiled over the course of the first six scripts of the '04 series.  Unfortunately, those scripts are under lock and key, much like Mrs. Johnson's secret Mayonnaise Cake recipe (receipt) -- Too bad.  It would have been the perfect complement to the boiled dinner I ate tonight.   

Speaking of additional scripts, were there any other scripts actually written?  I seem to recall reading on Stuart's site that six scripts were ordered.  Did they actually make it to print or were they killed before they even got started? 

As for the Indian Pudding, I do recall something like that, G. 

Gerard, it's very clear to me that Sophia is using an old, locally-published recipe book called Mrs. Johnson's Mayo and other Down East Recipes.

Good to know.  I'm definitely getting a lot more Barrett in this dialogue than I did with the '91 Carolyn... and that is a great thing, imo.  Though Blackburn's delivery of what were probably "humdrum" lines made her character a tad more... unique. 

I've got to be honest.  I read the reception thing as cell-phone reception as opposed to TV reception.  I guess it's because no one has spoken about TV reception on TV in years, though it's how I get my channels. 

The only mention of business I recall in the 1991 series was in the pilot or "movie" when Barnabas was asked what sort of business he was in.  The only thing we learned after that was just how "consuming" his business actually was.     (When the 1991 series tried to be funny, without resorting to outright goofiness, it kind of worked, which is more than I can say for Depp Shadows.) 

Magnus, that's because they put all of the good present-day storytelling on hold after 1795.  All of the great plots that had developed before the flashback were thrown out the window in favor of the "Monster of the Week" format...  and Peter Bradford.    Though The Haunting of Collinwood is nothing short of inspired, as is the first part of PT.

As for a Monstrous Moltke, I think we got pretty close to that with the early writing for Kate Jackson's Daphne.  Even with her character, though, we ended up with a softie, as a opposed to the evil, revenge-seeking governess they kept introducing her as (in the present and the past)...  It also didn't help that they needed a replacement for KLS, even giving her the KLS character theme music.  Had KLS not left, though, I wonder if we would have seen a Vicki-esque character with a truly evil streak.   

Roger is definitely written very much in the spirit of the original.  Love the brandy quote.