Thanks to one and all 

And, Patti, Happy Birthday back at ya fellow St. Patrick's Day baby!! 

Melissa

Vicki really is a saint to put up with him. I don't know how she ever stopped herself from slapping him upside the head whenever he went on a rant like he does in this episode!

I suppose the poor girl rationalizes that she only would have to put up with nasty Jeff until he remembered he was Peter, who was a much nicer guy. Apart from the fact that he looks like Peter, I can't understand what Vicki sees in Jeff, considering a vast majority of the time he's such a jerk to her.

I don't think Roger Davis is way worse than the average DS performer.  He didn't seem to have a clue about his lines sometimes... but he made up some good ones.

This particular episode had a good example of those made up lines. Did anyone else catch the line when he apologized for being rude to Maggie and Joe "down at Vicki's." Somehow I doubt that was the actual line - since, as a general rule, the writers tend to call "Vicki's" Collinwood.  (Not that all of the other actors managed to remember the name of the house either, but they did get a bit closer than "down at Vicki's."  )

In New England, do girls wear heavy long-sleeved dresses in June?

Vicki must be especially cold blooded, since she was not only wearing long-sleeves but also sitting directly in front of the fireplace at one point. I know a house like that must be drafty, but it IS June. Maybe Collinwood is air conditioned and someone has been cranking up the AC?!?

How is it that these are always the kind of posts that I manage to be reading at work, thus never being able to explain to anyone around me why I'm laughing.

You guys are cracking me up!! The only way to start the morning 

grayson67 (Melissa - who also thought it looked like there was a little sumpthin' going on in the montage)

and the Leviathan Lung Thing was an unusual house pet...

 

I'm sure Megan and Phillip though of it exactly that way¢â‚¬¦ Come here Lungy¢â‚¬¦ sit up¢â‚¬¦ roll over¢â‚¬¦ Good boy

Gregory Trask is without a doubt the worst of the Trask family line. He's just completely despicable - and gets everything he deserves. What I like about that character, as opposed to Lamar, or even the good ol' Rev., is that he's a well developed character, which make him the most interesting of the Trasks to watch. Lamar, on the other hand is the exceedingly boring, tedious and least developed of the three Trasks.

As far as Joanna goes, for some reason, and maybe this was in my mind only, I felt as if even Joanna had no clue she was dead for about 90% of the plot - kind of like Bruce Willis' character in the Sixth Sense. She simply thought she had come back for her lost love. It almost seems as if, at the last minute, the writers changed their minds (What a shock, DS writers changing a plot at the drop of a hat!! lol) and thought HEY wouldn't it be cool if she revealed she was a ghost after all (with a big glowing green face, I might add) before pitching Samantha off Widow's Hill?!?

Just my random thoughts before lunch 

grayson 67 (Melissa)

I'm so glad to find that I'm not the only person who thinks it's strange that Angelique could just lift the curse so quickly and efficiently this time around. Presumably, she had learned a great deal between 1795 and 1840 - but, if this were the case, then she also should have been able to cure him in the same way in 1897.

Of course, the cynic in my says that, given the direction in which the writers were steering the Barnabas/Angelique relationship, the reason for this quick fix cure was that the writers were looking for a fast and easy way to make Barnabas' feeling for Angelique soften.

The more analytical "beat a plot into the ground until I've rationalized every last minute" part of me says that technically, removing the curse in the way it was removed in 1840 would not have been sufficient in 1897. In 1840, no one (with the exception of Julia and Angelique - unless I'm forgetting someone else) knows Barnabas is a vampire - they merely suspect he may be a vampire. But in 1897, many people (Edward, Charity/Pansy, Petofi) knew he was a vampire, therefore the only way to clear Barnabas' name was for another completely innocent Cousin Barnabas to appear, while the vampire Barnabas lie staked in his coffin.

Mind you, that still doesn't explain why she would continue to give the injections in 1897 after Julia was gone, instead of just removing the curse... but, hey, she's Angelique... she may have thought Barnabas would see her as his own personal Florence Nightingale and fall madly in love with her as she nursed him back to humanity 

grayson67 (Melissa)

That may be the most horrifyingly nunny... I mean funny thing I've seen.



grayson67 (Melissa)

How odd is it that not more than a few minutes after I read this post the radio station I listen to at work played the DS theme song too?!?  I think the DJ was talking about something Halloween related, which I didn't catch because I was too busy telling my co-worker what the song they were playing was. (If she didn't think I'm nutty before, I'm sure she does now! )

Incidentally, the version they played wasn't one I'm familiar with at all... it was very much a generic version (maybe from some Halloween CD?).

Generic Dark Shadows is better than no Dark Shadows at all

grayson67 (Melissa)