when MPI removed the episodes on Youtube there were lots of younger/newer viewers who were like "who the heck is MPI"?

newbies! any old school knew MPI intimately. for years i was on the phone with them almost weekly ordering the episodes tape-by-tape before eventually upgrading to the dvd format. it took forever but it was fun.

i really don't know how marketable the pilot is on it's own. didn't someone suggest it might be included in a larger package of DS "oddities" like The House and a few other odds and ends? to me that seems more plausible given how the company has marketed things in the past.

there's been a lot of posting on FB that MPI has no "ownership" or any other "rights" to the 2004 property. that's it's owned by WB.

so i'm not sure under what authority they were able to have this removed? it's been my understanding they ONLY maintain rights to the OS. 91, 04 and 12 (and the 70/71 films) are not their properties. 

2012 "comedy"? OUCH! 

today of course was also have the increasingly important category of "prestige television" for actresses over 50 to soften their landing and often find some of their best work. Lang in particular has had an incredibly successful second act in genre. 'Feud' certainly typifies that.

the ill-fated Ms Durkin stepped into the role at an impossibly difficult moment for the character and the show in general. i believe someone here once called the period "ultra-phantasmagorical".

an extremely strange 4 or 5 week period where most of the 1968 plots were flaming out spectacularly and there was about to be an abrupt shift to an entirely different storyline and new set of characters. i haven't seen this particular set of episodes in ages but wasn't Vicki kidnapped, attacked and tortured on an almost daily basis during Durkin's brief tenure? to say nothing of the death throes of the Peter Bradford plot. i just recall her screaming A LOT. who knows how Alexandra would have handled the same preposterous material but she always underplayed nicely. at the very least the audience was used to her.

perhaps she would have eventually mellowed into the role. but in a lot of ways she was in a no-win situation.

because it was the closing season Vanessa's "death" had an air of "finality" to it. but given the premise of the series..where reanimation and eternal life are major themes..there's really nothing to prevent her "return" in any future variation of the story.

death means nothing in the PD universe.

somewhat OT but related to this article CMT was nuts to pick up 'Nashville' if it didn't have Britton secured long term...

without it's protagonist it's doomed to failure. the secondary characters can't carry it. they should just cancel it now and spare everyone a lot of aggravation.