I found Adam totally irritating at first, but I warmed to the story when they were exploring his relationship towards Carolyn.  I think it's already come out in the story that Adam has demanded a mate - I think the episodes regarding that are really bottom of the barrel stuff.  The intro of Tom Jennings was a much need shot in the arm (or bite in the neck) at this point, but I think they eventually short shrift his story and don't develop the character or situation as fully as could have been done.

Thanks VERY much for continuing with the story.

My psychobabble for today - Willie seems to be a person who needed/wanted a strong male figure in his life (issues with his father?).  Witness his relationship with Jason McGuire.  

Congratulations ProfStokes!  All the best in all your future endeavors.

Rachel Drummond was a pathetic character in many ways, but I'm afraid probably typical of the time when women were still in many ways almost considered as property by men - and the laws unfortunately were against them.  The kind of tyranny we see by Gregory Trask may not have been uncommon.  I read in one of the Dark Shadows books that KLS was originally slated to play the part of Samantha Collins, but when she left the series, the part went to Virginia Vestoff.  I would have been very interested to have seen what KLS did with that role, even though Vestoff is a good actress.  Poor KLS always seems to get saddled with the weak backbone type characters, Josette, Rachel and then poor Parallel Time Maggie.  

I'm printing this out to read as well.  The refreshment suggestions to go along with reading sound very appealing!  I'm enjoying this story so much that I've ordered a copy of Dreams of the Dark.

I've always enjoyed Joan Bennett on Dark Shadows, but other than Father of the Bride, I've never seen any of her other film roles (except, of course, the Dark Shadows movie)  I just watched videos of two of her starring roles under the direction of Fritz Lang - Scarlett Street and Secret Beyond the Door.  Joan more than holds her own in both films opposite Edward G. Robinson and Michael Redgrave, both very respected actors.  Joan is not what I'd call a very showy actress, she uses subtle changes in her voice and facial expression to convey her characters mood.  She is really an extremely attractive woman and if she'd had the right material I think she could have had a bigger film reputation than she has.  Both of these films suffer from scripts that grow increasingly bizzare.  As a side note, in Secret Beyond the Door, Joan marries a mysterious character who fails to tell her he has a son - a rather troubled, strange boy named David!

I wouldn't have thought myself a cat fancier, but I have become attached overtime to my wife's cat Beauregarde (they came as a package deal).  We would both like a dog - she a german shepherd, me a lab.  If we ever get them we're thinking of naming them Sandor and Magda.