I think one of the WORST scenes ever was the scene where Megan Todd, in the Leviathan storyline, was running around in her shop at night getting scared of various animal heads and the clock chiming. Her acting was so over-the-top and awful when she did it at the end of one episode. It was only slightly better in the recap of it during the teaser of the next episode. Probably Marie's worst scene ever.

i must confess i loved this scene.

by this point the storyline was so over-the-top i sort of got into it.

if i'm remembering this correctly in this scene(or one very closed to it)megan(who's so tightly wound at this point she's ready to snap)decides she needed to try and "calm down" by finishing her cup of coffee(served in those brown and orange earthenware mugs i just spotted at the evans cottage during the laura collins story).

i was so like,megan,if you want to try and calm down have a cup of tea...or a glass of wine...or smoke some weed or pop a valium but do not try to calm down by drinking coffee!

i heard someplace(i think on the cd version of "my dark shadows memories")that the actor who replaced craig slocum as harry johnson was kathryn leigh scott's neighbor who filled in at the last moment.

although it's probably not what the writers intended(indeed such things weren't discussed in those days)i agree that harry and mrs.johnson had what could be perceived as the classic "gay-son-mom" relationship.something about it read that way to me.the sort of stereotypical product of the absent/dead father and the domineering mother(and mrs.j. could be overbearing to say the least).

it's a cliche' but that's how it read to me.

i don't mist up often with the show but one scene comes to mind that i thought was rather sweet.

during barnabas and julia's brief visit to the year 1995 they encounter an aged and insane carolyn.

carolyn in looking through a photo album and she cannot recognize a picture of herself as a young girl.

barnabas tell her that she was a girl of "courage and spirit" and that she was in fact her.then as he makes his departure...and barnabas rarely does anything without some sort of self-serving motive...he pauses and gives carolyn a small kiss on her forehead.

it's just a nice gesture of affection that we don't often see.

director(off-camera):"we sold the staircase for scrap grayson...you and thayer used up the entire budget on brown foundation makeup!"

i'm shocked that the colleen kelly to carol crist recast for collinsport inn waitress "susie" wasn't included.

both actresses brought such remarkable subtlty and distinction to the role.

after this recast the show was never really the same for me.

one thing i can say about angelique is that she's rather delusional.

whether she and barnabas had a one night stand or a lengthy romance isn't made clear but when she boarded that ship bound for collinsport she knew what time it was.

she was acompanying her "mistress" on her wedding voyage.perhaps she thought she could just bat her eyelashes at barnabas and he would toss josette aside and claim her as his love.

but she had to have known him better that that(with his profound sense of family and position).she must have known from the get-go that witchcraft was probably going to be part of the eqation.

and how satisfying could that have been?

between the diner and the collinwood kitchen the characters were frequently seen eating during the first year.

however their diet seemed rather limited.at the diner it was always roast beef sandwiches(please remember mrs. johnson's epic mayonnaise scene),donuts(generally served three on a plate),ice cream sundaes and lots of maggie's infamously bad,stale,burned coffee(for heaven's sake just put on a fresh pot!).

over at collinwood the meal most frequently seen being consumed was breakfast(the kitchen is often refered to as the "breakfast room").the kitchen set was odd.there was a toaster and a coffee percolator but no stove...hence toast and coffee were generally the menu offerings.

i loved that kitchen set and was saddened by it's departure.

before mrs.johnson's arrival(and those lousy "new england boiled dinners")it is hard to picture any of the collins family members at the stove.since they owned a cannery perhaps they subsisted primarily on canned fish.