when i attended my first fest i was speechless when i first saw our actors.

but after having met and spoken to them several times i have a more easygoing attitude towards them.
but they really haven't affected my viewing one way or the other.i can seperate the actor from the character.

sadly several of the actors whom i'd have really liked to meet are no longer with us and a few more never attend the fest.

when i first got into the show about four years ago i too was somewhat shocked at the level of hostility directed at roger davis...until i got to his storyline.

funny.peter bradford didn't bother me at all.but as soon as he came back as jeff clark he drove me insane!
perhaps it's not entirely mr.davis' fault.the character was supposed to be confused and frustrated because he didn't know who he was.but the way it played he always seemed angry.he then carried that trait from role to role and that's why i always see him as jeff clark no matter what character he's playing.

the fact that he was paired upon arrival with alexandra didn't do him any favors either.their acting styles were too different.her placidness contrasted to his beligerence was jarring.

another reason he might be so reviled is that there is a widely held belief in fandom that alexandra disliked working with him intensely and that he might have been a contributing factor in her decision to leave the show.
whether or not that's true only the key participants really know but grudges run deep with d.s. because the fans are so loyal to the characters they loved.

Our Victoria has hardly aged a day.  I'm not surprised she is in these social circles.  After all, I don't think she ran into Claus von Bulow at the supermarket.

i agree.alexandra is as striking as ever(although at this point i wonder if the box of "nice n' easy" natural black isn't in the vanity).

i guess i'm not that surprised to see her in these social circles either.i mean the fat royalty checks that she receives from 'dan curtis productions' must have afforded her a very opulent lifestyle.

what if it's a specific character that you're partial to.

barnabites?
victorians?
hoffmaniacs?
lizbians?
quentenials?

i agree with what mysterious said about it being something of a good thing that most people don't know what i'm talking about when the d.s. addiction comes up.i'm not instantly labled "geek" as some other cult show devotees are.i'm not remotely into any other vampire/horror/fantasy stuff so most people don't know what to make of it.when i tell them it's a "soap opera" they just sort of accept that.

elizabeth was also contemplating taking a nosedive several times during the jason mcquire blackmail plot.

someone always showed up and prevented it from actually happening.

back then they used to consider alcohol to be medicinal in certain situations.on the show whenever someone faints or goes into some sort of shock the first thing offered is a glass of brandy.

the do do alot of drinking on the show.even the very non-alcoholic characters think nothing of brandy in the afternoon.but back then drinking didn't have the same social stigma that it does today.remember martinis at lunch?today anyone drinking at lunch would be widely considered to have a serious problem with alcohol.

i seem to recall one episode where the sheriff comes to the old house to question barnabas about something and barnabas being the gentleman that he is offers the sheriff some sherry.can you imagine offering the police alcohol if they came to question you today?

during the 1897 storyline barnabas makes quite a feast of charity trask.something about this gave me deja-vu.

more than any of the other actresses on the show barnabas seemed to have a real taste for the nancy barrett characters.
carolyn.millicent.charity.1970pt carolyn.i wonder why?

i haven't seen the show all the way through but after the early maggie evans stuff i can't recall him ever biting any of kathryn leigh scott's other characters.was this guilt for the way josette suffered?since barnabas and whatever character nancy was playing at the time were often "related" doesn't this make his taking of her blood to be rather disturbing and a touch incestuous?

did he ever bite lara parker?joan bennett?grayson hall?

i wonder what it was about nancy barrett that made the writers think that her characters were so suitable for consumption?