like barnabas' bride it's not so much the character of adam per se i dislike as much as what his appearance represents on the show.

before adam the show was written with a more adult sensibility.you're dealing with supernatural characters(a pheonix,a vampire,a witch)but in general it was plotted like a traditional "soap opera".i liked that.
with adam the tone and focus of the show changes violently.for me it becomes almost cartoonish during this storyline with monsters coming out of the woodwork and the original,human characters relegated to the sidelines.plus the darn thing just goes on forever.

eventually i got used to this new pacing on the show but i remember finding the first adam episodes to be almost physically jarring.

sorry we didn't get to meet penny,

i did get to meet midnite and several other members.i should thank profstokes and buzzh for introducing me around.

the fest was fun.as always a bit overwhelming with twelve hour days packed with activity.i had to pick and choose.the "Q&As" were as goofy as always.the reading of episode one was a highlight.i hate to be nit-picky but lara parker got victoria's voiceover totally wrong(yes i know it by heart).i wasn't her fault she was just reading from the script but whover typed it up made changes.also i didn't think karlen's burke devlin was a slam-dunk either.he sort of underplayed it.the best part of this performance was kathryn leigh scott reprising her role as maggie the "sassy waitress"(j.e.r.k.!).that was fun.

jonathan frid's surprise phone call was cool too.

i've got some reading to do now.i picked up lara parker's new book and r.j.jamison's(both autographed)as well as the first audiodrama which i can't wait to listen to.my budget didn't allow me to purchase any vintage stuff this year.

all in all a fun weekend.

a lovely tribute mysterious,

i tend to become a bit emotionally overwhelmed thinking about the pen but on the occasion of its 40th anniversary it deserves due respect.

nancy,

i'm going to have to disagree with you wholeheartedly.

are we reading the same board?

while i guess that i can only speak for myself i doubt that most of us have invested the time to watch a 1200+ episode series for rickety sets and "bloopers".

actually i think that the actors and show are generally discussed with a considerable level of affection and emotional involvement.if anything the actors are spoken of in terms of reverence unusual when soap opera stars are under discussion.

the mainstream media might focus on those things but i think that most fans are looking for something else.

true,

they made a very big deal about the fact that everyone vicki encountered in 1795 looked exactly like their present-time counterpart.you'd think that after the third or fourth time vicki is informed that the person standing in front of her was not who she thought they were she might have picked up on something but that's how things go with vic.

then when she returns to the present it goes into reverse and vicki has to register "shock" when she encounters for the first time those she met in 1795(peter/jeff,angelique/cassandra,noah.harry).

the poor girl spent the better part of six months "shocked".

i hate to say it but the pairing that would have had the most interesting storyline possiblities would have been barnabas and...angelique.

their love/hate push/pull dynamic served as the catalyst for some of the most interesting storytelling on the show.

i think that barnabas and josette(and all of her look-alike incarnations)needed to remain forever the ill-fated lovers.it simply was not their destiny to end up together happily.

i know that there are alot out there who envisioned barnabas and julia together but i think that would have ended up being very boring.as it was i think the cat-and-mouse dynamic they had before 1795 was much more fascinating than co-dependence they shared later on.it just gets too easy.

barnabas and vicki are an interesting thought to ponder.while it's highly doubtful that they ever would have married if alexandra hadn't left the show i wonder if t.p.t.b. would ever have decided that a pairing between the two(however briefly)would have been a possibility or would some sort of burke/jeff type of obstruction always be put in place?

as for roxanne she and barnabas are perhaps the most boring and contrived coupling ever on the show.

elizabeth was a blood relative so that has a distict "yuck factor" to it.

I've been on a several months lay off in watching any of the episodes. With fall on the way, I'm looking forward to watching the pre-Barnabas episodes again.  The Laura episodes are extra special when the weather is getting colder.  I just love the whole Frank Garner & Vicki searching for her past while the Phoenix story line is beginning to unfold and Prof Guthrie's arrival. To me, this is pre-Barnabas at its best.  Oh, and not to mention Laura's driving Liz nuts. I don't think I could get tired of this storyline.

I liked the Adam and Eve storyline in the beginning but got really tied of Adam towards the end.  I for one was glad that Adam got sent to the closet never to be seen again!

i totally agree about the laura collins story.

i watched it three winters ago and it's totally curl up on the couch under a blanket stuff.i remember it being cold and snowy outside and just being mezmerized by this strange woman and story.

it's the first storyline i intend to re-watch but i need to wait until there's that nip in the air.

me feelings about diana millay are that she's crazy...like a fox.

she must feel that it is in her best interest to maintain this aura of strangness.

when i first met her she told me that she remembered nothing,literally nothing,about the show at all and in fact had never even seen it.
in a subsequent encounter she was more forthcoming.she remembered that she had left the show the first time because she was pregnant and that a few years later dan curtis called her and asked her to return for a storyline he was working on which of course turned out to be 1897.

one's dealings with her are very different from someone like kathryn leigh scott.both have things to try and sell but kls is pleasant but very business like.with diana you're getting the whole package.

but i still find her rather likable.