i didn't imagine it.

doesn't it seem strange that there are so many misuses of the same word in one topic?

wierd!

again the word "speculation" was changed in my post to "nun" even though i tried to modify it twice. weird!

i suppose there were lots of things that were considered "acceptable" in the nineteenth century...you know, enslavement, child labor, the fact that women could not own property or vote...and i guess sexual relations between distant relatives that in the twenty first century are no longer considered acceptable.

so count me among those who would consider such a story about these two characters not as "an interesting theme to explore" but unacceptable. and yucky. very, very yucky.

let me try and understand this...

so parker is seriously going to publish a novel about an incestuous relationship between elizabeth and quentin? or is that just speculation?

and she thinks fans of the series will like that?

apart from being really, really yucky wouldn't liz have recognized quentin when he showed up at her house in 1970 claiming to be yet another hitherto unknown relative coming out of nowhere.

and since barnabas was entombed in the 1920's doesn't that take him completely out of the action? whatevs.

the image of a beautiful,dark haired girl traveling up the new england coast came to dan curtis in a dream. so victoria's arrival in collinsport by train seems to be an unchangeable element of the DS mythology.

considering that the series main character is a vampire and time travel a frequent occurrence whether or not trains actually run through maine is a minor quibble.

the series skewed convention even more by making josette a readhead. not traditionally a haircolor associated with ingenues but with wickedness and witches.

for me vicki is a fair skinned,dark haired heroine in the "snow white" tradition. i've never seen the 2004 pilot so i can't say if the actress was good or not but it would have taken some getting used to a short haired blond as victoria winters.

i haven't seen the 1897 storyline in years so could someone please refresh my memory?

how did julia end up in 1897? and why? wasn't one grayson hall character(magda)enough?

at least she traveled with her plaid coat. the characters were always so vulnerable,so defenseless to whatever supernatural shenanigans the writers could cook up that sometimes i think that they wore heavy,stiff wool and tweed coats year round almost as a defense mechanism. almost like some sort of armour. it made them feel somehow less exposed.

it's a thought at least.

since kathryn leigh scott had already been playing the ghost of josette collins for several months when the barnabas storyline was launched the writers must have thought(in the name of continuity,still a consideration in 1967)it made sense to have barnabas try and "recreate" josette through maggie evans. but i don't think barnabas(or the writers)ever saw her as the "reincarnation" of josette at that point. even in later years when barnabas ran into josette clones at nearly every turn(and i believe it was established that kitty hampshire was in fact josette reincarnated. or was she actually josette? i forget)it was never suggested that maggie evans was some new incarnation of josette. she just sort of looked like her.

i don't think vicki was ever supposed to "look like" josette. barnabas fell for her because she possessed what he saw as josette-like qualities(virtue.modesty.innocence.dull stuff like that)but not for any physical resemblance. i don't even recall him commenting on her beauty or appearance much at all.

i certainly can't claim to be an expert on french history but frocks i know a thing or two about. the gown josette wore in the portrait and the gown barnabas made maggie wear as josette when he imprisoned her and the gown vicki wears to the costume party and finally the gown we actually see josette herself wearing in 1795 is in the high-waisted "empire style"(pronounced "om-peer" if you really want to sound pretentious and fashiony). this line of dress began to appear in france and throughout the courts of europe in the late 1790's but achieved great popularity during the napoleonic period(1804-1815)through napoleon's wife josephine. hence it's named the "empire style" in honor of the first french empire.

however it began to wain in popularity with the end of napoleon's reign and by 1820 was well out of fashion. so it's not something a high born woman of josette dupre's status would still be wearing as late as 1830. it makes more sense with the revised 1790's timeline.