I don't mean the franchise is going down the drain...

just the amount of time and effort to copy and package 1225 sequential episodes for a relatively small market, most of whom already own other iterations of the series, seems like more trouble than it's worth.

this set was a highly niched product to begin with.

indeed this is starting to get a bit off topic but there was a particular scene where Magda reads Laura's tarot cards that was quite delicious.

like some of the other early characters Guthrie did have a whiff of the late 1950s. or at least the early 60s. a suit and crew cut type. and worlds away from characters like Jeb and Bruno of just four years later.


I liked him. he made a great adversary for Laura and their cat-and-mouse scenes are some of my favorites. perhaps in a perfect world Mrs. Roger Collins would have gone toe-to-toe with a certain lady doctor from windcliff sanitarium. a fictitious match up that has always intrigued my imagination with possibilities.

but since that was not to be Dr. Guthrie was more than serviceable. like Bill Malloy an early but quite memorable character for me and a distinctive part of a favorite storyline.

and the reason anybody would pay $60.00 for a (unautographed) of abe vigoda is?


and what's he doing at 'chiller'? I thought that was horror stuff.

what's funny is on some of the FB boards a chorus of know-it-alls(who, as usual, know nothing)are insisting that Ira Levin's' original novel was set in Paris, Roman Polanski "moved" it to New York for his filmed version of the story, and now this is "returning" it to it's original location...


whatever.

I had forgotten all about Thomas McDonald...

definitely one of the odder things to come out of the Depp film. it was so weird how he ended up being cut and this third, even younger Barnabas, sort of came out of the woodwork right before the film's release. incidentally if there was supposed to be a "teenage Barnabas" at some point I wonder if there was supposed to have been a "teenage Angelique" or a "teenage Josette" for him to play off of? we certainly never heard about that piece of casting?

as I recall this was when Joel Crothers left to do 'the secret storm'. so perhaps his storyline was wrapped up quickly?


like the rest of the original cast his role had been deteriorating across 1968 so maybe he just wanted out. I always felt very bad by this development. the breakdown of Joe and Maggie's relationship was one of the series' great "human" tragedies.

this morning I happened to look at my forum stats...


in the "most popular board by posts" section it listed 'current talk 2014I' as my most active board with 489 posts...

that cannot be accurate. I know I have not posted nearly 500 times in 2 months. that number is about a quarter of my total posts in my entire decade at the board. and I used to post a lot more than I do these days. how are those totals being calculated?