Hey, thanks guys!!!
       

You're the best!!!!

Judy

Count me in!  I'm planning on going to the 2/3rds Fest, however, I'm another Californian who was really looking forward to not having to spend the entire day on a plane to get there.  Yeah, yeah, I know it's only 5 hours, but that's actual air time--not connecting-flight-to-your-particular-part-of-the-state time, or waiting-for-luggage time, or-looking-for-your-ride time, or sitting-on-the-runway-at-JFK-for-45-minutes time, although I WILL be glad to be able to bring my own bottle of WATER on the plane with me (plane water--EW!!!).

I'm anxious to see the schedule of events knowing we're missing all of Sunday. but I have a question for any locals or well-travelled folks.  Since I'm going to be so close to where my dad grew up (North Attleboro, MA/Providence, RI), I'm wondering does anybody who is going hail from that direction?  Any local tips about transport?  How do I get to there from here (here being the Tarrytown Marriot).  I know I can consult The Great Oracle at Google, or go Mapquesting, but I thought I'd see if anybody had any particular suggestions along those lines.

Just in the planning stage, don't know how much time I can take off from work, but I'm DEFINITELY coming to the Fest!!!  Hope to see lots of you there.  I'll miss you, Prof. Stokes!!!

Thanks,

Judy
  

I like to think they borrowed the name from Michael Hollingshead, who is credited with introducing Timothy Leary to LSD, but I am easily amused. 

LOL!  I am too!  But I was thinking more along the lines of JF being caught up in the moment because of the way he delivers the line.  Poor Barn.  He was so shocked to read of "his" death.  I could see JF, being a learned man of letters, unconsciously substituting "Hollinshed" of the famed "Hollinshed Chronicles " in place of the mundane "Hollingsford" which the prop book shows.  If that was the case, they would probably just go with the name that was spoken because you probably couldn't have caught "Hollingsford" on screen until it was on VHS, or maybe even DVD.

Can you imagine a back story for Willie

Yes.  I can!  And it's coming soon to a website near you!  LOL! 

Judy

I really never gave this much thought.  I just took it for granted that he was in a comatose state, especially because of the need for blood and the lack of it for so many years.  That's why I really liked what they did in the 2004 pilot to explain what happened. [spoiler]When the coffin was opened, he was nothing but a dried up skeleton thing, but when a drop of blood was accidentally spilled onto his body, he suddenly morphed alive sort of like The Mummy in the newer version, how his body was restored, only Barn's restoration was a lot faster.[/spoiler]

Judy

It's Julie-of-the-Gold-Dress!!!  Yay!!!!  

OK, everybody!  Time to do the DS Wave of Welcome!!!!

 

Hi Julie! 


Judy

Well, first of all, I subscribe to the quote I once heard (and I wish I could give whoever it was credit...seems like it was a commercial...anyway...here it is)


Seriously.  Trying to make sense out of something that really wasn't written to make sense COULD get you a one-way ticket to Windcliff.  However, since I've written almost 900 pages about Ang and Barn in "present day" (post-end of the show), here's my theory.  The only timeline I really dealt with was "how could she have been in 1840 and then came back and did the Cassie thing and then the Angie Rumson thing."  It's not really a spoiler for my story, but if you want to read it from Angie's lips instead, I'll put it in a spoiler box.

[spoiler]After 1840, Angie was dead.  But it didn't work for "her old master" to have her dead and LOSE all that delightful wickedness in the 1970s, so all of her memories of Barn and Julia and Company in 1840 were hidden from her.  Once she passed the point where it didn't matter if she remembered or not, Judah's punishment was reinstated, removing her powers but restoring her memories were restored.[/spoiler]

Near the end of Leviathan, she and Quentin both commented that it had been a LONG TIME.  Did that mean they both LIVED through the years?  I have no idea.  

Judy

Speaking of props...how about those that seemed to stay in one place, but we've never seen used and have no idea what they are?     I'm talking about the square thingy by the front doors of Collinwood.  Everybody always passes by it, nobody puts anything on it, or takes anything off of it.  For my money, it either looks like a grand disguise for one of those plastic Sparkletts water dispensers, or (and this is what it REALLY looks like to me) a tabernacle from the sanctuary of a church--aka the little house where the consecrated hosts are kept.  And I KNOW that isn't what it is.  But every time I see it, I go, there's that THINGY again!!!!

Judy