Quote from: AndreDuPres on August 24, 2005, 12:34:29 PM

As to the pen...I don't know, I just don't know.  I only know (to quote Julia) about *afgan*, for I've never seen the pen plot.

You've never seen THE silver filigree pen plot - and yet you dare to doubt its power?    For shame! 

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for the uninitiated the pen plot defies accurate description.it truly must be seen to be believed!

when these episodes come out on dvd run don't walk!even if you fast-foreward through the rest of the episodes watch the pen plot and only then will you understand it's monumentality.

after viewing the final alexandra moltke vicki episodes a few months ago i took a "breather" from watching the show.now i'm moving foreward.

however i just couldn't bear to watch the betsy durkin vicki episodes.alexandra is vicki to me.and i just didn't care enough about adam's tedious saga to watch the conclusion of it.
so i skipped ahead(something i never did before)to dvd volume 12(beginning with ep.656).the start of the quentin storyline.also my first dvd(i always watched on vid.).

here maggie is ensconced as collinwood governess.she's just moved in.aside from everything else there are some hilarious continuity and prop gaffes here.when maggie goes to unpack "her" clothes in her new bedroom she pulls out of the suitcase vicki's red a-line dress with the purple sleeves.it was an oft worn fave of vic's...did they think no one would notice .then she goes to the wardrobe and nothing says victoria winters like a closet full of sleeveless dresses.later in the same episode "maggie's" blue suitcase is packed as amy jenning's for a trip to boston.could they really only spring for one suitcase?

it was interesting to see maggie in vicki's old "governess" persona since after the 1795 storyline they sort of dropped that part of the character and vicki's focus was almost exclusively on jeff.as much as i like maggie i still would love to see how vicki would have handled this new storyline.

these were also joe haskell's final episodes and it was so sad how they treated this character.

anywho since i skipped ahead several episodes i have a few questions.how was vicki's disappearance explained to everyone or was it at all?how did maggie end up at collinwood?

all that said so far i like what i see.no more adam and i simply cannot love that enough.and the david and amy stuff is cool too.david suffered a major slight after 1795 and here he's given a storyline again.

i seem to recall maggie sitting bolt upright in bed and letting out a bloodcurdling scream after a few bad dreams as well.

david had a few cool dreams during the part of the story where he was being terrorized by barnabas.

mrs.johnson:"well susie i must say i prefer you to that chatterbox maggie evans...she never shuts up and i don't believe i've ever heard you say one single word."

Don't forget Kate Jackson. She is more recognized for Charlie's Angels than for Dark Shadows.

i didn't "forget" anyone.

i think the spirit in which i first posted this topic is being misinterpreted. :-

best wishes midnite!!!

cool ideas guys.

the more i think about it the more i like it.the collins family fattening thier purse with some bootlegging on the side.the blue whale as a speakeasy.and our girls in flapper attire...love it!

they did alot of time-travel stuff but except for the brief 1945 arc it was mostly set in the rather distant past.
a storyline set in the 1920's...when some of the show's real characters would have been born...would be so good!

rainey and nancy,

i hear what you guys are saying.it must be very strange.you appear for a couple of years when you're very young on a t.v. show...and nearly forty years later that work is still being discussed daily by a deeply devoted fanbase.you're either into it or your not.plus unlike many actors from the show alexandra doesn't have things like books and cds to push so there's no financial basis for her involvement.

still...one can only hope.

can you imagine a double bill of johnathan and alexandra at the fest?the autograph line alone could stretch for days!