In a way I wish they hadn't gone as overboard as the did with the whole

[spoiler]Liz cursed by Cassandra - buried alive thing[/spoiler]

I think it would have been far more fun to see Liz square off against Cassandralique more often.

i totally agree.

in general the writing for elizabeth was horrible in 1968.i loathed every minute of the tedious "buried alive" plot and as has been pointed out it went on ad nauseum.sometimes i'd forget that liz was still on the show and then she'd walk into a room and it was the same old same old.

it was a total waste of joan bennett's time and talent.imho she might as well have taken the entire year off.she gets a few moments during quentin's haunting but it isn't really until she portrays judith in 1897 that she's again given some material worthy of her.

jeff(to himself):"now i know i'm supposed to be in love with the ditzy one...but that broad in the tweed suit is a fox!"

cue theme to "the graduate".

as i near the completion of the series i must say that barnabas collins is something of a randy and often fickle fellow.

now of course we all know that josette collins was his "one great love".this was one for the ages.

josette was played by kathryn leigh scott.so when the show travels back and forth in time and the various storylines unfold one of two things happen between barnabas and whatever character kls was playing at that particular time:

a.)barnabas pursues the character with an obsessive,manic,often violent fervor(1967 maggie evans,1897 kitty hampshire).
b.)barnabas persues the character in a sort of weak,half assed way because she reminds him of josette but it never really goes anywhere(1897 rachel drummond,1970 maggie,1970pt maggie).

so supposedly josette's the one.but i'm currently watching 1970pt and the minute roxanne appears on the slab with a red shag and a bullet bra he's smitten.ignoring all rationality in the situation and the advice of his good friend dr.julia hoffman he decides that simply based on her beauty this creature must be brought to life.

let's not forget either that for a long time victoria was the apple of his eye.and at some point in 1840 he tells angelique that she was always the "one he loved".

all the while the good doctor's obvious affections go all but ignored.

this was one fickle vampire.

that is odd that they're refering to the first episodes as 'volume 27'.i've always thought the way these episodes were marketed was odd.

i do have most of the "collector's series" on vhs(a few volumes lost to the sands of time)but i just know i'll shell out the $$$ for the dvd's.i haven't watched the pre-barnabas storyline in it's entirety in years so i'm hoping it will seem fresh to me again.

i don't however intend to shell out a dime for a "bloopers" dvd.just not interested.

oh my...

hearing alexandra recite her episode one voiceover.i think i might weep!

mitch ryan was another key player in episodes one and two and he never attends the fests either.all of this lends itself to some serious speculation.

it will be fun if kls reprises her "sassy waitress" bit or if nancy barrett gyrates as she did at the blue whale in epiosdes two.i'll bet she's still got in in her.

i think a storyline covering the early teenage years of carolyn,maggie and vicki would be great.the backstories are probably fascinating.

roger and laura were living in augusta,me. for many years and roger and david only returned to collinsport shortly before the time that the show first began.so for many,many years carolyn,her mother and matthew morgan were the only people living at collinwood.she must have had a very sheltered and lonely childhood living with this reclusive woman who never left the house.

maggie's upbringing was probably difficult as well.it would be interesting to see the story pick up when her mother was still alive and the impact her death had on her father.perhaps the time of the car crash would be a good place for the storyline to start.

and it would be interesting as well to see a parallel storyline showing us vicki's formulative years at the foundling home in new york.was there some sort of forshadowing even then about her future at collinwood?

since these three characters are close in age it would make the most sense to intertwine their stories.

yay prof!!!

have a great day.