storyline specifics are "spoilers"...

pictures of sets and locations and casting information are NOT.

on a strictly aesthetic level they look like cheap, tacky, junk jewelry made in a sweatshop god knows where. 

The character became so popular that it was a given that they were going to hold him. But when they brought Quentin into the present, they clearly had no idea what to do with him. After he regains his memory and Amanda Harris is disposed of, Quentin functions more as a plot device than a character.

The [spoiler]Daphne fixation in 1970 [/spoiler]might have played out better if that had been Roger instead of Quentin. The 1897 Quentin was shown to be well versed in the occult and should not have been so easily ensnared.

he was always sort of a "plot device". of all the regular characters Quentin was the least fully fleshed out. I never really understood what any of his motivations were other than to help Barnabas "fight monsters". other than that he didn't have much of a personality.

to me existed on the "Scooby Doo" end of the series' spectrum.


and all of the various "Quentins" were technically supposed to be different people. but the fact that they all looked and talked and acted exactly the same drove me crazy.

where the real sloppiness and lack of continuity was was in the family's treatment of the character...

after 1897, during the "Grant Douglas" period, he was a total stranger, the children were afraid of him, and he was associated with the ghost that had haunted the house the previous year...

then the storyline shifted to 1970 parallel time.

when the story returned to "the present" everyone acted like he was an ordinary, everyday member of the family who had always been around. Roger was absent so he sat around sipping sherry and bickering with Liz like he was her brother. when David was taking pictures during the "Gerard" haunting Quentin told him he'd been asking to borrow his camera for "a year". a year??? a year earlier Quentin was a ghost haunting the place. no one was borrowing his camera. 

they just glued the sideburns on, dumped him in his old Victorian room with that stupid gramophone ( to keep the "brand" consistent ) , and hoped no one would question the lapse in continuity. 

I wish attitudes around it were more relaxed...

I constantly have to extricate myself from conversations because of the dramatic flareups that occur with it's mere mention.


in most corners of the fanbase the venom is as potent as it was the day the first stills were released.

I really liked it...

but other than on this page I don't even mention it unless I want to get attacked and bombarded with words like "insult", "travesty" and "abomination".

and you can't just dislike it. you have to HATE IT. 

I honestly don't think there was really a narrative "reason" for it...

I just think they thought the lunch box/bubble gum card crowd wouldn't notice or care about such lapses in continuity. so they just dumped him in his old room with that stupid gramophone and called it a day.


but as an adult viewer stuff like that drives me nuts.