looking forward to this. looks great.

the Lawless addition strikes me as rather calculated stunt casting with this series. a deliberate attempt to attract a "particular" audience. this thing is tailor made for the "comic con" crowd.


I watched the first season on Netflix. the sets and special effects are totally cheestastic. entertaining in a spectacularly stupid way. 

Roger did indeed give Vicki a tour of the cannery...

it was a 1966 episode where Roger wanted to get Vicki out of the house for some reason. so he created a ruse about wanting to give her a "tour" of Collinsport and the cannery. they went into town, visited the cannery, had lunch (or breakfast) at the diner and then I think Roger brought Vicki into the sheriff's office for some reason. probably something to do with "the pen" or giving him an alibi maybe for the night of Malloy's murder. something of that sort.

it was an episode that amply employed the early exterior footage.

I'm not seeing what a plot development from 1840 has to do with the cannery

I don't recall it being mentioned in specifics...

but it was the established background source of the family's income and wealth. and the financial hardships that plagued the family during the early episodes ceased to be a factor after the show went supernatural as well. or at least they were never mentioned. the last time it was hinted at was when Roger was looking at his "rich cousin from England" as a potential source of income in 1967.

what on earth is with Mr. McBride's sour grapes attitude about this launch 


where does he think an old soap opera is supposed to be reaired??? obviously I own the series on DVD but I think this airing is a cool thing. I don't have cable but I just learned I get this channel over-the-air. it's a goof. and a little goes a LONG way but it's evocative of the cozy old "nick-at-nite" lineups. a caught a couple episodes of 'get smart' last week that were fun.

I think this is a 3 day "binge". obviously this will not cover the entire 1225. do we know what pair of the series will be shown??? I will assume based on how the series has been syndicated in the past beginning with the episode 201 Barnabas release and proceeding from there?

I think it's cool.

i can see Curtis' desire to retroactively "fix" what he perceived as flaws in his original story. and certainly fans of the OS coming to the 1991 version wanting "resolution" on this particular plot point might have taken some comfort in this "reveal"...

but as a stand alone series, and for a new viewers coming in "cold", I don't see what dramatic impact this "revelation" would have had as the narrative stood. or even if it makes any sense. the fact that Vicki was an "orphan" was mentioned in passing as a nod to original story. but it wasn't a major plot point by any means. and I don't recall the reason she came to Collinsport being a search for that answer. no sooner did she arrive than Barnabas was released from his coffin and she just became the "new" Josette. the "mystery" surrounding her parentage wasn't even a factor in the story.

and who was Elizabeth? this lady who poured tea, threw costume parties and spoke with a British accent for no apparent reason??? the character was written as a nonentity with no backstory to speak of. so in terms of the story at hand (again with no associations with the OS) what difference does it make if she suddenly announced she was Vicki's mother??? what does that bring to the story???

I don't see the importance of it.

Crawford was the "understudy" for her viperous daughter Christina during her brief acting stint. apparently she begged for the role...

at the time it probably seemed like too big a piece of "stunt casting" for the producers to resist. but I'm sure they secretly knew it was train wreck television. and of course in retrospect it was grotesque.