elizabeth(staring in disbelief):"carolyn...my god your hairdo's stiff!"
carolyn(sarcastically):"hmm...look who's talking."

it is interesting that they never did use a wishing well as part of a story.they included just about every other gothic cliche'...locked rooms in dank basements,crypts,closed-off wings of decaying mansions.a wishing well could have made an interesting storyline.

that is very impressive firerose.what is the medium being used?

thanks for the thoughts guys.monday was cold and gray and besides doing my laundry coming up with this d.s.equation was as fun as it got.

i like your handle penny.i've often thought that "penny wise" would make a cute name for someone.perhaps a very bookish drag queen(done up in very dr.hoffman-ish tweeds).

angelique:"joe...don't be so hard on yourself.it happens to all men sometimes.next time i'll wear the waitress' uniform!"

i had some unstructured time on my hands this morning .so i did a little d.s.math.
now d.s. was a daily show that originally aired 1225 episodes over a five year period.now what if it had been a weekly prime-time show instead.there are about 23 episodes in a prime-time t.v. show's season.so what if they tried to cover the same area story-wise and produce the same number of episodes?dark shadows would have been on the air in first-runs until the year 2016!

let's take a look.season one.twenty three episodes.story-wise this would have brought us to the car crash/bleeder valve business.and a quick reference to luciaphil's idle thoughts reminds us that at this point in the show we were on day three.three days covered in a year-long season!
barnabas would not have been released from his coffin for nine years!the seance that led to the year 1795 would not have taken place until 1981.now if we think 18th century fashion as seen through the late 60's was weird think of it seen through the early 80's(a new-wave influence?).victoria would have been on the show until 1993.we would now be viewing episode 900-ish.early leviathan stuff.

there were a few re-casts on the show but can you imagine this scenario?as actors aged and moved on to "greener pastures" they'd have to be replaced.would they characters constantly be re-cast to maintain the age they were originally or would they have been allowed to age in real time?would jeb hawkes be dating a sixty-something carolyn?could barnabas still turn into a bat in his eighties?would davis still require a governess in his fifties?

like i said i had some unstructured time.

unfortunatley they didn't seem to want to develop the julia character outside of barnabas.at first she opposes what b's up to,then she becomes his complete ally.but always within his context.

for heaven's sake she didn't even have her own house.

"It's not that I travel light, Burke, it's just that all my dresses are sleeveless."

love it!!!