maggie:"miss hoffman every time you show me that hideous piece of junk i forget things."

julia:"my heirloom medallion is not junk!and you two dimwits would forget your noses if they weren't glued to you face!"

ASK AND YE SHALL RECEIVE!

me thinks that perhaps i posted this topic in some haste.over the weekend i've been watching the progression of this storyline and was stunned to see that at some point they changed the devlin-era venetian blind set-up to proper victorian lace curtains.

however in the spirit of tradition the number "24" on the door leading to the set is clearly visible.i liked that.

have a great thanksgiving everyone!


after all that turkey take a nice...

nancy:"why wasn't barnabas invited to this wedding?"

joan:"barnabas is just a temporary character nancy dear.this episode features the show's stars."

so true buzz.

it vexed me as well that this plotline was never resolved.they "hint" that betty hanscomb was vicki's mother.at the same time they "hint" that liz was vicki's mother.i don't think the writers themselves knew and then the whole show went in a different direction anyways.

it always amused me when that picture was seen back at the evans' cottage.i remember nicholas blair casually eyeing it.no one ever mentions that it's vicki!

a policy of "waste not want not" must have been in effect with the props department.

i don't watch during the day and i don't watch during the week.when i get a new video or dvd i save it to watch over the weekend.then i watch at night.sometimes till all hours.i just like it better at night.

when i was watching on video i'd usually watch the five episodes then stop.now that i've switched to the dvd format it's easier to just keep watching.it was taking me forever to get through the show on video.over three years just to get to the final vicki episodes.i upgraded to the dvd format with the start of the quentin storyline.i'm glad i did because the 1897 storyline lasts for so long i didn't want to spend a year watching it.

my "game plan" is to watch through the 1970 present time episodes.then decide what favorite storylines to go back and re-watch.i might just start from the beginning again.for whatever reason the 1840/41pt episodes don't interest me much.

as for the dvd's they are expensive but are actually cheaper on a per-episode basis.

i've been watching dvd collection 15(the 1897 storyline)and just when i thought 'room 24' couldn't reappear again it shows up as tim shaw's room at the collinsport inn.this room is sort of like the roger davis of sets.
here the door that used to lead to the kitchenette is now the entrance to the room so the number '24' is not visible but i'd know this set anywhere.the window treatments are always the same.loose weave taupe drapes backed by venetian blinds.

so the question is this.since they went through the time and expense to design the elaborate victorian interiors used throughout the 1897 storyline how expensive could it have been to simply hang period-specific drapes in this room?

speaking of the collinsport inn they also utilize the lobby set here.that certainly took me back.i half expected victoria winters to walk in with her plaid suitcase fresh off the train from new york.in fact the early quentin storyline and the 1897 storyline both utilze sets not seen since the early black and white episodes.the collinsport inn.the police station.the caretakers cottage.what do you think they did with these sets when they weren't being used?were they sort of collapsable and could be folded up for storage and then easily set up when needed?the studio could only have been so large and in edition the the main sets always in use(collinwood.the old house)there must not have been space for the dozens of other sets occasionally used.

like most of the original characters i thought maggie was a bit ill-defined and all-over-the-place during this "middle period" on the show.

there were storylines that never really went anywhere:the business with josette's earings.then the whole thing with maggie being trapped in the mausoleum and remembering the events of the previous year.she convieniently 'forgets' all of it should it interfere with the rest of the storyline.i never bought the maggie and nicholas plot either.it came out of nowhere and i think was thrown in just to give kls something to do.

funny but all of our girls were using really bad judgement when it came to men during this period.maggie with nicholas,carolyn with adam and vicki with jeff.not a one worthy of them!

at the same time i still have a fondness for maggie during this period because it's sort of the last time she's really 'maggie' before she becomes 'magtoria'(tm.mabelique).