Yep the Parallel Time Barnabas was born in 1770 as it shows is grave marker so yes he was supposed to be 25!

simply astounding!

barnabas collins was supposed to be 25 old??? younger than willie loomis. younger than burke devlin. younger than angelique.

just a scad older than vicki,carolyn and maggie.

i always see barnabas as peer to roger,julia and professor stokes. not whippersnappers like joe haskel and jeff clark.

this is too much to be believed.

trying to determine the ages of the characters during the time travel storylines will drive you bananas(and often starts an argument to boot).

total suspension of disbelief is in order.

during 1795 joan bennet's naomi collins was simultaneously old enough to have given birth to a man in his forties and young enough to have a daughter who was ten(to say nothing of the unfeasible age gap between the siblings).

in 1897 her character judith had a brother who was thirty years younger than she was.

go figure.

my knowledge of werewolf lore is pretty much limited to DS but to me much like zombies he's a pretty lame monster.

at least in terms of DS the vampire and the witch and the pheonix bring several things to the table. not just physical threats but emotional,psychological,sexual and spiritual implications are at stake as well.

sure barnabas,angelique or laura could just kill you right off the bat but the myriad other tortures they inflict on their victims are often worse than a quick and easy death.

with a werewolf(or,again,a zombie)either they attack you or they don't. they pose a physical threat but that's about it. their victims don't become changed in some profound way and thus for me they're not really "scary" except in a b-movie kind of way.

sure chris jennings is "tortured" my his condition(and put sabrina stewart into a catatonic state)but his actions under the werewolf state don't pack the emotional punch of many of the other supernatural characters.

that's news!

i've skipped the audiodramas after the first one. the stories didn't captivate me after the novelty of hearing those "iconic' voices together again wore off.

but frid and karlen together again is a real temptation. i'll pick this up.

i've said this many times before but i always enjoy scenes between alexandra and kathryn.

they seem like real friends to me. there are the "slumber party" episodes from around this same time period that are personal favorites as well.

oh and by all accounts the studio where the series was filmed was tiny given it's expansive premise.

so my guess would be that with the exception of barnabas' "permanent" coffin there was no room to store the myriad others and were rented on an "as needed" basis.

i used to watch y & r regularly during the "danny and cricket" era back in the 1990's and have only caught a handful of ms. mc carthy's sporadic appearances...

i will say slightly off-topic that for a series that bills itself as the "young" and the restless most of the cast is well into middle age and beyond. many of the main characters have been on the program for at least 20 years.

not that there is anything wrong with that...

good point.

as we saw with depp sometimes (lucky) actors have projects lined up years in advance. obviously with burton onboard we can pencil helena bohnam carter in for a part but if the producers have other actors in mind for specific roles that takes alot of planning.

depp is certainly the star attraction here but i would hate to see production further delayed waiting for other actors to become available.

haven't we been waiting over three years now?