it's funny that barnabas introduced himself as a "cousin from england" and yet he did not speak with an english accent.

not only did jonathan frid and "barnabas" have different speaking voices but barnabas' entire intonation differed depending on what character he was speaking to at the time.

contrast the fawning obsequiousness with which he speaks to "cousin elizabeth" to the sarcastic tone he takes with dr.hoffmann early on...recognizing her as something like an equal yet one whom he still has the upper hand with...to the low command with which he speaks to a true underling like willie.

i always think that barnabas,liz and roger are meant to sound old-money and upper-crusty whether they really did or not.

i'm not sure why they decided that jason mcquire would speak with an irish brogue but it did make him seem more like a "seafaring scoundral".

it seemed like kathryn leigh scott used a slighly higher,more ingenueish,pitch as maggie than her own voice.

and for someone who was supposed to have had the hardscrabble background that vicki did she speaks with an absurdly aristocratic bearing.because alexandra moltke is from denmark i always fancied a vague danish accent coming from her but i learned that she was raised in the u.s. so perhaps i just projected that.

maggie:"i'm sorry willie...i'm not questioning your taste.it's just that i've never found the empire style to be particularly flattering on me.didn't josette have anything in a trapeze line?"

I like this idea & will try to participate.

But I'd REALLY like to see us step up our efforts
to get reruns on SoapNet or TV Land, and to get a new series or new movies on Showtime.

speaking of soapnet...

i only recently realized that soapnet came with my cable package.i rarely ventured that high up on the remote.

i was always under the impression that it aired old soaps(hence the frequent talk of d.s. being aired there)but from what i can tell they rerun that day's episode of a given soap.over the weekend they rerun episodes from the previous week and they have an annoying talk show called "soap chat" or something to the like.

this came as a disappointment.in this era of dvr technology why does a network exist that reruns shows that only aired earlier that day?this doesn't make alot of sense to me.

if this is in fact the situation(perhaps they air old soaps late at night?)why do people think that they would ever air d.s.?

p.s. i may have already asked this question but i forget what the reply was.

i've only been to three fest(2003/06 brooklyn and 04 tarrytown)so i don't have alot to compare it to but i thought it seemed like a well attended event as far as a forty year old soap opera is concerned.it seemed better attended than tarrytown to me.

plus it seemed like there were more new offerings with the books and audiodramas and whatnot than ever.

but it will be a big disappointment if there isn't one next year.as far as frid and moltke go if they didn't attend the fortieth anniversary i doubt they'll ever attend.

brandon,

sorry you didn't get the postcard.f.y.i. it's a 1970 photograph of carolyn and quentin.

i'm glad you're enjoying these episodes.much to my surprise i really liked them too.

i leave for maine first thing in the morning(portland not collinsport!).

happy holidays everyone.

i haven't seen the 1841 storyline so i don't know what character thayer david plays but he does seem like an odd choice to me.

since jonathan and grayson were essentially the "protagonists" by this point i would have assumed it would have been one of them.

alexandra is the sentimental choice since she recited the first episode voiceover but since she was already long gone it wouldn't have made much sense(indeed viewers who tuned in during the later part of the show's run would not have known who victoria winters was).especially since this was a "parallel time" storyline that bore no direct relationship to the 1966 characters.

so my vote goes to joan,nancy and louis since they were the only actors who stayed with the show from begining to end.joan bennett in particular had that cool patrician tone that would have suited the final voiceover nicely.