such discusions generally do not take place at this board.it's generally a more refined place.

and i'm not sure how "impressed" i am with myself for starting such a debauched topic(and it's not without a certain amount of regret)but it just popped into my head and the imagery struck me as funny.

actually there was a conversation about underpants a few weeks back that got a bit loose.

forgive me magnus but i'm not following you...

i was trying to find a point of agreement to your previous post.that it was a "less cynical" time where a gentleman suitor might not be "pre-judged".

i read in that perhaps more trusting,more innocent.can you see where i might get that idea?

but whatever,i'm sure 1968 was hell.

i always like scenes between alexandra and kathryn.they seem like real friends.

barnabas is one smooth operator here.so much for the "nice" barnabas the writers had spent so much of 1968 trying to force on us.he takes the opportunity to manipulate two very vulnerable girls,sitting there drinking coffee and minding their own business,with supposedly unselfish offers of "friendship" when that's the last thing on his mind.

what is it with vicki and maggie(and barnabas and nicholas)that makes them see these clowns as kindly older gentlemen friends rather than guys on the make?have they never heard of midlife crisises or trophy wives?

i liked it when barnabas tells vicki she's "looking well" and she modestly replies that she "hasn't looked in a mirror all day" when she's wearing an astounding amount of eye make-up(loscalzo was feeling frisky today).i'm not with lydia however on maggie's attire.i found the brown-and-white glen plaid to be very "junior sophisticates" and rather chic.i used to think that vicki always being in sleeveless was just cheapness on the part of the show's costumers,having her wear the same few dresses all the time,but she actually gets gifted with three new ones in mid-to-late 1968...the green one seen here,a black one and the black-and-white checked one.so someone upstairs must have really thought this was all the character could wear for some reason.

i've been rewatching the 1968 episodes.

last night i watched the infamous "fake-carolyn" episode.diana walker's performance left me speechless!

anywho there is a scene where carolyn goes up to adam's room for some sort of confrontation(snooze)and discovers that the besotted monster has a polyester chiffon scarf of hers(i'm just guessing it's polyester chiffon.i doubt d.c.p. splurged for silk).he keeps it because it "reminds" him of her.

well,i don't need to spell that out,do i guys.you know what the implications of that are.

in fact the unspoken pyschosexual implications of this entire storyline(you know,with it's strongly suggested attempted sexual assault)are off the charts!

on a different note this episode seemed very "b-list" in it's cast.we get fake-carolyn,harry johnson,tony peterson gets dragged out of mothballs(neither one exactly movers and shakers),roger and the dull-as-a-thud adam.the very next episode features barnabas,julia,professor stokes,jeff clark and vicki and suddenly seems all "a-listy" again(did i just refer to jeff clark as "a-list"?).

a weird episode.

while it's true that barnabas was not in the vampire state by this point in 1968 maggie had in fact been kidnapped and imprisoned by him vampire or not.

she knew about the cell in the old house,josettes's room,the secret room in the mausoleum and she had been missing for several weeks.a mystery never solved.

so while collinsport law enforcement is not the world's most efficient they would at least have to investigate maggie's claims.so while the vampire angle could not have been proven here barnabas,willie and julia would have had alot of explaining to do.

was barnabas ever even officially a "suspect" in maggie's disappearance a year earlier or did the collins family name exclude him from such indignancies?

brilliant heather!

these were the highlight of my day.

questionable taste,and even worse judgment,in her choice of partners is one of the defining hallmarks of carolyn stoddard hawkes.it's par for the course.

so her choice of jeb here didn't surprise me in the least.

oops i'm late!

hope it was great gothick.