anyone who's seen miss scott's work on d.s. knows that she's spent more time in wigs and hairpieces than almost anybody...

but,alas,i don't think that it's kls in the commercial.

indeed...

miss scott certainly came a long way from slinging hash in ash blond dynel to reigning collinwood damsel-in-distress.

lydia...

i'm going to have to give the episode a look.i cannot ever recall a full-fledged high-heel being worn on the program.

it's always that low,squat heel(but not a flat)with the squared-off toe.

there are those here who loathe this shoe but over the years i have grown to be quite fond of it.it provides a nice,satisfying "clack" on the stone floors of the foyer at collinwood.

the whole time i was watching noah gifford i kept thinking that he looked like he had been dressed by jean paul gaultier.

slocum seemed an odd choice for the tough guy parts he was given.i remember a scene where he was trying to "blackmail" nicholas blair into something(i forget exactly what)and instead of sounding threatening he came across as shrill and queeny.

as harry johnson i think that he was originally supposed to come across as early-willie-loomis-ish.sort of a scoundrel.but because slocum brought rather nellie qualities to the role it changed the direction of the character.

i didn't even watch because i thought we were taking a "break" this week for halloween...

did i imagine that?

i can see why this choice was made.

barnabas and josette were more of an "idea" than an actual couple.yes he carried a torch for her around for two hundred years which is very romatic but we actually saw them as an actual,flesh and blood couple for a couple of months.

most of the time that jonathan frid and kathryn leigh scott worked together she was playing maggie evans or some other character...not josette.

but barnabas and angelique shared years worth of love/hate/push/pull material.frid and lara parker were more of a "couple" in that sense.

i'm with those who found the costume part to be hokey and somewhat pointless(as was julia's business of "hiding" behind her fan).plotwise it only served to achieve one aim...to "present" victoria winters as josette dupres to barnabas and the viewers in the classic costume ball stairway descension.

soap operas in general love costume parties and more specifically masked balls.most have at least one such occasion per season and why should this be any different.it at the very least gives the cast the opportunity to dress up although the costumes tend to be rather overblown affairs.

i,for one,have never been invited to a masked ball...sigh.

i too liked the "end of the party feel" to the ouija board game.cute that roger and maggie were the participants.it was like a secret between them.

carolyn's room was a 1980's monstrosity but wasn't it supposed to be upstairs?how did she end up wandering out of the french doors and into the garden?as with daphne before her the attempts to make her encounter with barnabas "sexy" made me wince.

but i'm with those who are finding barbara blackburn's minxy take on carolyn stoddard to be great fun.

the scene with carolyn and joe going to the antique shop was sort of a roundabout way to achieve the end goal but whatever.the program is set in maine but actually filmed in califorinia so what was with the "ye olde colony shoppe" feel of the shopping location?was california ever colonized by the british?the place had a "disney-ish" vibe.

teatime at collinwood.i'll have to check my copy of 'amy vanderbilt's complete book of etiquette' but does one serve cucumber sandwiches at tea?

i can understand why baranabas needs julia out of the way and why he wouldn't want to get his own hands dirty in the proceedings.but is having carolyn kill her really the wisest option?couldn't he find some other way of dealing with her?at the very least carolyn would get charged with murder and be sent to jail.or is maine a capital state?perhaps having julia dead is worth it all to him but it seems like a bad idea.so the scene where carolyn goes to julia's room with a kitchen knife made for great dramatic affect but was kind of dumb.

my first thought on the seance was "what hideously ugly sweaters" everyone had on but once i got into the spirit of it it was fun.

where can vicki be!?!