i just got mine home. other than a quick skim on the subway i haven't really dove in.

i will say i'm glad i called 'forbidden planet' early this morning and had them put one aside for me. when i went into the store to pick it up there was only ONE copy left on the rack. i suppose there could have been more in the stockroom but still it seems to be doing quite well.

more deets later...

thanks mysterious,

i'll keep a lookout for it. i think i was just surprised that when the character returns during the leviathan storyline after a two year absence that suit turns up again too.

where had it been all that time?

astredo and parker were certainly well matched and had oodles of chemistry onscreen.

blair had a bit too much control over angelique during the "cassandra" moment. there are some scenes later on in the series where ang has the upper hand and really gives nicholas some much deserved attitude.

he also has some fun stuff with marie wallace as eve. and please let's not forget his legendary showdowns with grayson hall.

incidentally i recently noticed that he wore the same powder gray suit as nicholas for the character's entire run. now that's some cheap costuming.

I believe this is one of the last times we will see the kitchen.

believe it or not darklady you've got about a hundred more kitchen episodes to go...

i believe in it's last appearance there is a scene there with dennis patrick and john karlen as jason and willie. and of course that's just before the barnabas introduction.

so continue to enjoy it, please.

good grief.

i would have thought my choice of words(a "proper scolding")would make clear my remarks were meant lightly. a jest. a bit of back-and-forth.

it sounds like something roger would say.

back on subject. i would have to say that talent and presence are two different things. like most actors who ended up with major parts on the series briscoe had alot of onscreen presence. he kept your eyes glued to the screen when he was on it. however that's something else than being truly gifted along the lines of say grayson hall or louis edmonds or clarice blackburn. they were genuinely gifted actors.

even our beloved roger davis had alot of onscreen presence. he left an indelible mark on the series. but i would not call him an immensely talented actor.

um, really?

don was very, very easy on the eyes. and he certainly created a memorable DS characterization in chris jennings...

but i don't think i can agree that he was a gifted actor.

some characters...like liz, roger and carolyn for instance...seemed to be genuinely alternate versions of their "real time" counterparts. they were the same people for whom life had worked out differently. their circumstances were different. this was the original premise for the storyline.

others, like of course quentin and angelique, were actually different characters completely who happened to have the same names as characters who somehow functioned in "the present" but were not actually part of that time. ang and quentin were only extant in the present through supernatural causes. they didn't really "belong" there.

as for chris and amy they were such a minor presence i didn't concern myself much with their relationship to the period. in fact their abrupt departures mid-storyline gives me the impression that they were just finishing out don briscoe and denise nickerson's contracts.

unsurprisingly this group of "real fans" is largely populated by people operating under the pseudonyms of DS characters.

marie wallace and kathy cody have wisely made the decision to stop accepting "friend requests" from people using false identities.

unfortunately like most fandoms there is a highly disturbed underbelly to DS. it very rarely rears it's head at this fine board but it's out here and ms. carter's comments have triggered an outcry.