alexandra wore a "fall" in alot of the 1966 episodes and in some, including this one, she looks like she's actually wearing TWO.

during the 1795 storyline vicki tells the countess dupres that's she's 22. so she's definitely 20-ish at the time of her arrival in collinsport.

[spoiler]vicki's change of sleepwear over the years...from the sensible robe and pajamas seen here to the frilly peignoirs of the barnabas years are indicative of her changing status on the series.

here she's the show's plucky and inquisitive "heroine"...in the nancy drew tradition...but not yet an "ingenue". that comes later.

needless to say that changes with the arrival of barnabas but not quite to the episode. i distinctly noticed a "new" vicki(the one that gets endlessly maligned as "clueless")the night when barnabas...fed up with maggie's defiance...gives vicki josette's music box. she's "enchanted" by it. it's "lovely". and the dreamy peignoir sporting victoria winters is born.[/spoiler]

it will come as no surprise to those here i find her enchanting in this mode but whatevs.

people used to get married much earlier than they do today...my parents got married in 1964 fresh out of high school(and no they didn't "have to"). so carolyn's talk of marriage isn't that surprising.

still what i'm always struck by here is carolyn's complete lack of direction. a general driftiness that will bring her into ever mounting troubles in the upcoming weeks and months. needless to say there is NEVER any talk of career or job at this point(would this have been considered socially unacceptable for a girl of carolyn's high born status?)but there is also no talk of college, or finishing school, or a trip abroad that would have been de rigueurfor a young lady of social prominence. her mother just lets her loaf around acting petulant.

joe haskell is about as foxy as they come, but this doesn't exactly matter to liz(and apparently little to her daughter either)it would cetainly mean "marrying down" for carolyn but i guess liz just wanted her "happy" and out of the house for some reason.

not until 1970 when [spoiler]she decides to mount an exceptional career swishing a giant feather duster around an antique shop do we see the slightest bit of ambition on carolyn's part that doesn't involve landing some highly unsuitable man.[/spoiler]

yes in the early days carolyn's attitude towards her uncle had a distinct "ick" factor.

at it's best i guess that roger was supposed to be cultured and debonair in comparison to the yokels that populated collinsport in general. but still it was weird.

interesting news!

i wasn't aware that any of the original actors other than frid were doing cameos. we haven't heard about casting for mrs. johnson yet...what a coup to get la parker in that part.

i had another thought on the rationale for casting such a young actress in the role of carolyn.
perhaps with green and heathcote on board the producers thought that given the two hour time frame three young woman roles were redundant and having a teenager created some differentiation.

wonderful!

i can't wait for august. and the movie. this is really an exciting time for our little story.

 

to digress to the billing situation for a moment...

how well known is bella heathcote(i'd never heard of her before this project)? is she still new enough and unknown enough to get...

                                                           and introducing

                                                           Bella Heathcote
                                                                     as
                                                        VICTORIA WINTERS

         

given the perimeters of a two hourish movie i'm not surprised to hear that certain changes have been made in the name of expediency.

having angelique already well established in collinsport...rather than being conjured up...is a nontraditional choice but certainly more time-effecient.

and it sounds like victoria, julia and willie are already ensconced at collinwood rather than doing lengthy introductions into their presence there. from the looks of it it doesn't seem like we'll be getting the traditional bit with vicki arriving by train(along with her opening voiceover). the thought of liz renting out a room to dr.hoffman(is liz broke?)is sort of a hoot. maybe it would be fun if julia was being put up in the caretakers cottage or carriage house. we haven't heard about mrs. johnson yet but it seems like this willie loomis will be something of the composite character of the original series' loomis, matthew morgan and harry johnson we got in the 1991 program.