DarkLady I totally agree.  I did enjoy HBC's campy performance.  She seemed to just hit the right note for what she was given to do.  It seems as if a lot of her material was cut in favor of Depp's excruciating pratfalls and mugging.

G.

Fabulous scene.  It seems as if many of the best scenes were cut from the final print.  I'll try to restrain my comments about the ending since someone I am very fond of adores it.

G.

Fascinated by this scene.  Thanks again, MB.

I am going to be offline most likely between Sunday morning (very early) and sometime the following Sunday evening.  I'll look forward to catching up with this series via this thread upon my return.

G.

I had thought the scene just completed had a lot in common with the same scene in the 1991 series.  Many thanks for all the annotations and extra info!  If I understood you correctly, none of this scene survived in the edit of the pilot that we saw in 2005 (if that was indeed the year).

My total amnesia of what's being described continues, so again, I appreciate your carefully composed notes and vivid descriptions.

Best, G.

Fans,

Friday afternoon I was able to attend the Boston Comic Con on a day pass. The costume display was phenomenal.  I saw Queen Maleficent, multiple Spidermen (some of them female), Thor and Loki, a number of Death Star troopers, this one inventive lad in a sort of evil scarecrow costume on chrome stilts with ferrules on the bottoms, several very odd people (mostly female, again) in these colored leotards that entirely covered the face, Spy vs. Spy from the old Mad Magazine comics.... I'm sure I'm forgetting many.  A lot of the costumes were for characters I do not know of course.  There  was even a fully operational TARDIS in one corner. 

I wore a Dark Shadows t-shirt and got reactions from several people. This was a total surprise.  I really was not in the mood to attract attention, but a volunteer at the reg desk immediately recognized it and commented upon how cool it was.  (This was one of Julia99's beautiful "Grayson's Legion" shirts.)  The reactions varied throughout the day but were overwhelmingly positive.  Perhaps  the strangest was from  this very friendly dealer from whom I purchased a 1960s copy of MONSTER WORLD.  I'd say he was probably around 32.  He said he and his wife had started watching DS on Netflix.  And he said they were around episode 70.  Since I know way too much about the program I said, "ah!  you just enjoyed the first sighting of Josette's ghost!"  He looked puzzled and said, "Who's Josette?"  Oh dear...

Presumably they may have been multi-tasking while watching the episodes...

Best,  G.

Happy Birthday Darling!

xo Gothick

For those who wish to see it, the deleted scene from season 1 of PENNY DREADFUL screened at SDCC has been posted on Youtube.  The scene, though it was originally part of an early episode of the season (episode 2, I believe; it would have come, possibly, at the end) is being described as "spoilery" because it foreshadows developments to be played out in the new season next year:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YU0BjgtsUxI

It's also a bit spoilery (just a bit) for the first season finale episode.

I have to say, this clip really encapsulates just why this season gives off major DARK SHADOWS vibrations to me... I would submit that THIS is the direction anyone choosing to attempt to revive DS again should explore.  I personally feel that DS is probably better off resting on its laurels, at this point...

G.

Alec if anything is even sexier now than back in 2004!  That was a great role for him in DRACULA.  Wish the character had gotten more than one episode; nice to think he got a free trip to Hungary out of it.

Thanks for this awesome narrative, MB.  Again, I have no recollection at all of this scene from the screening.  I'm starting to wonder if I had dozed off.  BTW I am very happy to report that I have finally gotten a diagnosis for my sleep apnea and am at the end of day 3 of sleeping with a CPAP.  And the change, for the better, is already phenomenal.

G.