next to depp pfeiffer is certainly the biggest "star" attached to the project. but i don't see her getting second billing i see her getting FINAL billing as in...


one of those type deals.

more than anything i think wyndcliff ended up serving as a depository for characters/actors taking time off or leaving the series whom the writers didn't want to permanently kill off...

doing summer stock? wyndcliff! joining your husband in paris? wyndcliff! taking a part on "the secret storm"? wyndcliff!

barnabas and willie both took restcures at wyndcliff...i wonder what jonathan frid and john karlen were up to in real life that necessitated their characters' time outs?

Love the idea of a family fondue dinner, overseen by a dour Mrs J (who on Earth is playing Mrs J??).

oh i can only imagine mrs.j's barely suppressed FURY the first time liz asked her to make fondue! the way she saw things that fancy "foreign" food should stay where it belonged. all mr.malloy ever asked for was a proper new england boiled dinner and some nice FRESH homemade mayonnaise. she blamed carolyn for these wild ideas what with her hanging out at that fancy-pants "bangor pine"!

b.t.w. one of my favorite moments of 1970 parallel-time was when quentin and maggie return to collinwood and "hoffman" has prepared them(fireside, if i recall!)some sort of crab dish served in some sort of fancy silver chaffing-dish type thing.

i think there are those who would certainly question the good doctor's ethics, like maggie evans for instance, or her competency, like the many, many people who went to her hospital and didn't receive any beneficial treatment and never got better...

still she had gusto and wore moss green tweed like nobody's business.

i think speculation that half or more of the film will be set in the past is just wishful thinking on the part of 1795 devotees...

given the plot outline and casting information we've received it appears that the story will largely be set in 1972 after the initial setup. there's been no word on casting for joshua and naomi leading me to believe that they will be minor parts and not portrayed by any of the "present time" actors. we also haven't heard anything about significant 1795(or, for these purposes, 1792)players like jeremiah and ben stokes. all of the major casting information has been about the 1972 characters.

my feeling is that the piece will be primarily set in 1972.

i received the form yesterday.

frankly i really can't see how much bobbi ann woronko can contribute as a guest. she appeared in a single episode over forty years ago. i doubt she recalls much at all.

something feels slightly bittersweet about this year's fest. it's likely the last one before the movie is released and, assuming it's going to be the hit depp's movie's generally are, the DS world expands exponentially. our little DS cocoon is about to change radically.

i really don't know what it all means. will future fests focus on the movie and it's fans? will it's stars and perhaps even depp be in attendance? will attendance explode? will the original series get pushed into the margins. i'm really not into a "star trek" like circus with thousands of attendees.

it's so much to take in.

i can definitely see the appeal of 1897. and i can understand why it's a favorite time period for many fans...

i enjoy it(although,as i said it went on too long for me)but it's just not "my" dark shadows. my DS is the present. those are my touchstone characters and visually i prefer the aesthetics of the "present time".

that's one of the reasons i'm looking forward to the film so much. i understand that part of it will be set in the 1700's but it's primarily a "present time" piece...meaning 1972. it's about liz and vicki and julia(and,of course barnabas and angelique)and the characters i know and love from the original series. frankly if it was going to be about quentin and magda and petofi or any of the other 1897 characters i wouldn't really care about it that much.

but that's just my personal taste. and great assessment of the situation magnus.