i agree gothick that i was intrigued by this strange character too.i hated this part of the storyline but leona's few scenes mezmerized me.her delivery was so strange and flat.it also amused me that they decked out the "most evil woman of the 18th century" in this really bland and middle-class ohrbach's ensemble(complete with chiffon scarf of course).

like suki forbes ms.eltridge was one of those two or three episode characters that stayed with me.

navigating the 'robservations' has been a mystery to me since day one.
for instance i just did what mysterious recommended to find the robservation for ep.849.i entered 'episode 849' in the search box and a link to the robservation popped up.then i tried episode one and episode 200 and the link didn't pop up but several links to different robservations that simply included those numbers somewhere but not the episode itself.other times i've gotten the reply "no matches found" or something to that effect.

couldn't a box be set up where one just enters the episode number and the robservation for that number episode pops up(same for the 'idle thoughts')?

i just started to watch the storyline so these are my random comments thus far...

so far i'm really enjoying the story for the most part.for me it's a bit like a new beginning.i always watched the show with vicki as my focus character and this is really the first storyline that she is squarely not a part of.while i'm not quite as emotionally involved i have a new objectivity and that's not a bad thing.i can enjoy it or not on it's own terms.

so far i'm liking the mix of the supernatural and more "human" storylines(edith's will,jenny,worthington hall).i like that joan bennett has a great part to play in judith collins.she has such chemistry with david selby.they have a few "come into my parlour said the spider to the fly" moments that are priceless.i can see why mr.selby became such a hit with viewers.he's tremendously charasmatic.i love jenny and feel that marie wallace brought pathos and a smidgen of sweetness to a character that could easily have been a standard-issue psycho.and what can i say about the return of laura collins?her 1966 story was and is a personal favorite and seeing her again is great.especially her scenes with joan and louis edmonds...seems like old times in a way.

my only apprehension with it is that it lasts so long.i'm only about forty episodes into it and it's much longer than that.it's thus far been pretty tight but it sounds like the middle/end gets a bit all-over-the-place and that's where my patience with the show can wear thin.time will tell.

i am currently watching the early-ish part of the 1897 storline.

here we have barnbas and rachel drummond striking up a friendship and possibly a romance.now i don't know about you but i find this pairing of jonathan frid and kathryn leigh scott to be quite disturbing considering the cruel,dehumanizing way barnabas treated maggie evans when he was first released in 1967.i simply cannot get past those images.they're burned into my memory bank.as late as the eve plotline barnabas was willing to sacrafice maggie to the experiment.

for some reason the pairing of barnabas and josette during the 1795 story didn't bother me because it was essentially a "prequal" with much of the action taking place before anelique placed barnabas under the curse.
but the 1897 barnabas lived through his actions in 1967 so his relationship with maggie was much more recent then that with josette.there is no "innocence" there.i simply can't romance any pairing of these two after 1795.


on a similar note i'm finding rachel to be a rather insipid character.i prefer a spunkier kls.her inguenue routine doesn't work for me.perhaps i'd like the character more if she'd been played by you-know-who.with so many interesting female characters populating this part of the story(judith,beth,jenny,laura and angelique)rachel kind of bores me.

you're so right gothick...i remember being particularly delighted by that lush salt and pepper tweed dr.hoffman wore in this episode.i don't recall ever seeing it before this episode or after so i wonder if it was ms. hall's own?

i didn't think this merrited it's own thread but another of today's episodes(no.69)featured some high points as well.i remember mrs.johnson going on about believing in signs and omens and giving a really overwrought but awsome performance here.

i loved the julia and cassandra "moment" as well!

like gothick jaw dropped.i just listed a few others at the dvd volume 12 thread too.

good ones guys...i didn't think of alot of these.


but i almost forgot a personal favorite.the only apartment anyone in collinsport can ever live in...#24.