thanks. i think i understand.

i think i'm going to give marie's new cd a listen. for what it's worth over on her facebook page she's promoting it as an "audiodrama" not a "dramatic reading" but i think i'm beating a dead horse.

and oh that bangor pine...

it's the creamiest set ever. the wallpaper is to die for.

and alexandra in these eps. hair up. coat draped across shoulders. dreamy. very much the proper soap heroine.

love it!

where are all of vicki's sleeveless dresses now? did ABC wardrobing recycle them on other shows? it's strange to think of someone else wearing them. you just know the fabrics were non-biodegradable so they're probably just sitting in some landfill for the next five thousand years.

sabrina stewart actually ended up with one of vicki's coats.

i picked it up at Border's yesterday. it's very well done.

i must say that kathryn leigh scott is one smart cookie. she turned a few years of her life into an entire mini industry that seems to have supported her rather nicely(judging by those THREE homes). good for her.

DS fans are so loyal that if you were a blue whale extra in episode 63 you could probably work it to your advantage but ms. scott really made the most of it.

i might have to check out those dan curtis movies.

part of this unintended air of hauteur probably stems from alexandra moltke's impossibly aristocratic carriage. at times she comes off as almost "regal" for a lowly servant girl.

much like joan bennett moltke possessed an impeccable diction(thanks to spence and miss porter's school)that gave the character a rather "patrician" quality.

today's slideshow features one of those DS scenes that gives me chills...

carolyn telling david about her imaginary friend. then david and carolyn hear the message in sarah's music. then vicki hears the wailing of the widows. goosebumps every time!

that it's a black and white kinescope episode only heightens it's sense of bleakness. the overpowering mood of melancholy and despair.

total chills.

magnus makes a good point.

leviathan and 1970 parallel-time were stand alone storylines that were worked into the larger DS canvas.

but starting with 1995 it was clear that they were building up to something big that would likely be set in the past where the program had experienced so much success  before. one can really only appreciate it in retrospect but there it is.

and interesting point about the possibility of KLS as samantha collins and what that would have meant to the endless parade of josette lookalikes. under those circumstances would samantha have been yet another incarnation? how would barnabas have reacted to that when roxanne was on his mind by this point? oh the questions.

and after the brutality with which barnabas first treated maggie in 1967 i could never buy(or stomach)any implied romance between them in future storylines. those images are burned onto my memory bank and just because the character became popular and the writers tried to redeem him doesn't make that go away for me.

my feelings about roger davis as ned stuart were always "why?".

stuart was a relatively minor character and could easily have been cast using a different actor. so closely on the heels of jeff clark it only added confusion. confusion exacerbated by the fact that nothing was done to differentiate the two characters in terms of appearance or temperment. ned was just nother bossy blowhard.

my impression of the absurd preponderance of roger davis roles has always been that davis must have had a two year contract and the writers/producers needed to write him into the series somehow whether it really made sense or not.