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Current Talk '24 I / Re: And Even Yet Another New Slideshow
« on: September 09, 2014, 11:38:03 PM »
Before we close the door on this scene I'd like to share one more still - one of Alexis Thorpe showing off Kelly's "dead" makeup:
As some have no doubt already surmised, Kelly was intended to be the Carolyn/Daphne of the pilot. However, unlike Carolyn in hoDS and Daphne in the '91 DS, Kelly may have had an extended presence on the show had there been an '04 DS. And considering that in her vampire state she would have had ties to both Barnabas and Willie (and to Prof. Stokes, had he been introduced into the series rather than simply talked about), the possibilities of what might have been done with her character might have proved quite complex and fascinating, something that Daphne in the '91 DS wasn't really allowed to become because she was dispatched with so early. And the fact that Sheriff Patterson would have been all too aware that Kelly had been found dead could have made the situation all the more complex/fascinating once evidence of her continued presence on the scene surfaced, as it no doubt eventually would have. But alas...
One thing that I do question in the pilot script, though, is if it was intended for Kelly to return as a vampire, why was it established in the script that at least two weeks had passed before her dead body surfaced? Wouldn't she have transformed before that time? Or might it have been that because her body was in the water for all that time, the transformation was somehow forestalled? I seem to remember that in one of Hammer's Dracula movies he was destroyed or at least somehow incapacitate because he'd fallen into running water. I don't really remember how the ins and outs of that legend worked, but I do wonder if the '04 WB was going to somehow use and/or rework the running water angle to explain why it took Kelly so long to transform? But I suppose we'll never know...
As some have no doubt already surmised, Kelly was intended to be the Carolyn/Daphne of the pilot. However, unlike Carolyn in hoDS and Daphne in the '91 DS, Kelly may have had an extended presence on the show had there been an '04 DS. And considering that in her vampire state she would have had ties to both Barnabas and Willie (and to Prof. Stokes, had he been introduced into the series rather than simply talked about), the possibilities of what might have been done with her character might have proved quite complex and fascinating, something that Daphne in the '91 DS wasn't really allowed to become because she was dispatched with so early. And the fact that Sheriff Patterson would have been all too aware that Kelly had been found dead could have made the situation all the more complex/fascinating once evidence of her continued presence on the scene surfaced, as it no doubt eventually would have. But alas...
One thing that I do question in the pilot script, though, is if it was intended for Kelly to return as a vampire, why was it established in the script that at least two weeks had passed before her dead body surfaced? Wouldn't she have transformed before that time? Or might it have been that because her body was in the water for all that time, the transformation was somehow forestalled? I seem to remember that in one of Hammer's Dracula movies he was destroyed or at least somehow incapacitate because he'd fallen into running water. I don't really remember how the ins and outs of that legend worked, but I do wonder if the '04 WB was going to somehow use and/or rework the running water angle to explain why it took Kelly so long to transform? But I suppose we'll never know...