[BTW, this smiley looks like it has no teeth]

I think it's a baby smiley, Stuart!

Thoughts and prayers are truly with you at this time, Gerard.

Hi, Bette!  

Well, since Midnite posted that "bar gang" photo, I thought I'd better respond ...  

I truly wish I could go this year, but right now it doesn't look too likely.  Finances.  There's hope, but it's not looking too good.  

       

Another recent school story in the news that says something about today's values -- a teacher in Kansas (I think that was the state) failed a number of students for plagiarizing (sp).  Acting on parental complaints, the school board ordered the teacher to give the students passing grades, even though they acknowledged the students had cheated.  The teacher quit her job.  I don't blame her.

LF wrote:

I think I agree that Barnabas did not know himself how to react to Angelique when she first came to see him, but it does not make sense to me that he did not know she was the Dupres's maid, particularly when I assume he went to the duPres plantation to conduct business with Andre....

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LF, what made you think that Barnabas didn't know that Angelique was the Dupres's servant?

I think he was surprised to see her when he opened the door, but I don't think that meant he had no idea she was connected with the Dupres family!

Wow!  It's going to take a while to learn all the bells and whistles, but I'm sure it'll be well worth it!



I especially like the way once you open a thread you can read ALL the replies at once!

Midnite, it looks like you heard my request long ago about being able to copy and paste messages from the forum into a Word file and be able to read them without changing fonts, etc.    That's a big help if one isn't able to print out things whenever one wishes (for example, if one is using a public computer).

Guess I better read the "Help" topics and find out what more there is to learn!  Like what the heck are YABBC tags!

Originally posted by Vlad on the Dark Shadows: General Discussion Forum on February 27, 2002 at 16:15:48:

I would have added this to Luciaphil's original thread, and my costume comment under Happybat's, but with all the activity on the board recently it seems that threads only a week old are already being removed.

First, a question: Is Angelique the maid of Countess du Pres or Angelique? I was surprised to hear that Angelique will be returning to Martinique with Natalie and Andre after Josette is married, so apparently she is the countess' maid, not Josette's personal maid. I must have had Lara Parker's novel more clearly in mind, where Angelique was hired to be a companion and maid for Josette when they were children (and also sisters, but that's another story.

Later in the original series, Natalie says that she knew Angelique's mother, and also that she knew Angelique when she was an "uninteresting child." However, given what we know about Angelique, [spoiler]actually having lived in earlier Colonial times as Miranda du Val, I have rationalized that the older Countess simply referred to the sweet young slip of a thing Angelique as "a child." Apparently Miranda/Angelique was somehow achieved immortality when she was around 20, I'd guess. Any ideas on how the apparently innocent Miranda became the evil Angelique? Lara Parker did a good job investigating the psychological possibilities of how someone becomes evil, but she ignored Angelique's history as Miranda and instead had her born and growing up on Martinique.[/spoiler]

Also, I must have missed some dialogue here -- did Josette arrive in New York after a sea voyage from Martinique, or from Paris?

I must say I'm getting a rather perverse delight in watching Angelique at work here - those eyes are real killers. 

Has anyone noticed how the lighting in 1795 seems to make everyone's faces thinner (hollow cheeks)? I noticed this first with Nancy Barrett, then Vicki, and today with KLS.

This is probably just me, but I always have a hard time remembering that Jeremiah is Barnabas' uncle rather than his brother. For some reason it just seems to me like they should be brothers. Interestingly, that is the way the 1991 revival series did it. However, having two brothers in love with the same girl seems more of a cliche. Maybe that's what the original series writers were trying to avoid.

A note on the men's costumes - Comparing the 1790 costumes in the 1991 series with what we're seeing now, I'd have to say the 1991 series costumes were much more attractive and flattering to the men. For one thing, the pants were - ahem - looser  ; also, the colors are more monochromatic rather than the variegated colors we see in the original series. Does anyone know which series had the more "authentic" men's costumes for this period? The fabrics in the 1991 series also looked more luxurious to this untrained eye. 

-Vlad

Posted by Vlad on February 26, 2002 at 17:20:35:
In Reply to: Re: The porch light's on, but Vicki's not home posted by Gerard on February 26, 2002 at 09:49:37:

This is probably one instance where the 1991 series improved upon the original.

-Vlad

BTW, what the hell is a BI class?