Jason: It takes a thief to know one, and I know you, Barnabas Collins or whatever your real name is.  We could be helping each other, you know.  I'll give you a share of the take in my blackmailing scheme if you'll just...

ANG!   (A New Game!)

FAI (First Acronym is)

      KLS   Kathryn Leigh Scott

NPT (Next Player's Turn)
DFL (Drop First Letter)

      KLS  >>  _LS  >>  LS

AAL (Add Another Letter)

      LS  >>  LS_  >>  LSD

MAA (Making Another Acronym)

      LSD   Laura Seeks David

NPT (Next Player's Turn)
DFL (Drop First Letter)

      LSD  >>  _SD  >>  SD

AAL (Add Another Letter)

      SD  >>  SD_  >>  SDS

MAA (Making Another Acronym)

      SDS   Sarah Dies, Sadly

ASO (And So On)

TFP: (The Fine Print:)

1) You can't change the order of the letters.  If you have JA, you could add an S for:

      JAS   Julia Administers Sedatives

but you could not add an S for:

      AJS   All Julia's Sedatives

because that's AJ, not JA.  Also, you couldn't add an S in the beginning for:

      SJA   Sedatives: Julia Administers

even if you wanted to, because the new letter has to go at the end.

2) Naturally, everything must be related to Dark Shadows, and the relationship must be real.  If you have JA, you could add a C for:

      JAC Julia's Awful Clothes

because I believe it is generally agreed that Julia had some truly awful clothes, but you could not add a C for:

      JAC Julia's Awful Car

because we do not have conclusive evidence (or any evidence at all, as far as I know) that Julia's car was awful.  And you certainly couldn't add an L for

      JAL Japan Air Lines

because...well, just because.

3) All words count.  If you have JA, you could add an M for:

      JAM   Julia's A Moocher

but you could not add an M for:

      JAM   Julia's an Accomplished Moocher

because "an" counts as a word, as do "a", "of", "and", and all sorts of other pesky little words.

4) Nobody can play twice in a row, except for me right now, because I want to make sure it's clear how this game is played.  So, after doing:

      KLS   Kathryn Leigh Scott
      LSD   Laura Seeks David
      SDS   Sarah Dies, Sadly

I'm going to add one more.  Drop the first S from SDS, leaving DS, and add an F for:

      DSF   Dark Shadows Fest

Now we drop the D at the beginning of DSF and get SF_

WGN? (Who'll Go Next?)

It's Halloween, so I'm thinking about michael c's suggestion that we have a discussion of the 2012 movie today:

deppshadows "watching project"

I've seen the movie twice: once on May 11 in a movie theater, and once on October 2 on DVD.  And I've thought about how Johnny Depp watched the series when it was originally broadcast, as I did.  Depp and I appear to have been seeing Barnabas completely differently, however.

Johnny Depp's Barnabas seems to me to be unattractive, clueless, and annoying.  These are all things that Jonathan Frid's Barnabas was not.  I'm not much of a moviewatcher, but I've seen Johnny Depp in a few other movies, and I know that he can be attractive, intelligent, and interesting, even when he's playing a bad guy.  A lot of other Dark Shadows fans have loved the movie, so I gather they are seeing things that I am not.

My dislike for Depp's Barnabas causes me to feel that Eva Green's Angelique is all wrong as well.  I like her far better than I like Lara Parker's Angelique - but she doesn't make sense.  Parker's Angelique is totally self-absorbed.  It makes sense that she should have carried the torch for Barnabas for over a century, whatever his faults, because ultimately everything is all about her.  Later in the series we see some emotional growth in her, and that's interesting - but in the time of the series that corresponds to the movie, that hasn't happened yet.  The movie Angelique is another story.  The self-absorption isn't there.  So it seems out of character for her to be fixated on an unattractive, clueless, and annoying person like Barnabas.

Would somebody care to set me straight?

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