well again, suffice to say none on this is "real". every single bit of it is fiction...

accordingly people can "believe" whatever they want to believe. there's no to way prove or disprove anybody because none of it is real. but for my purposes series continuity came to it's conclusion when the 0S did in 1971. that was the end of it. if it hadn't happened in the previous five years it wasn't part of the story in a conclusive way. every comic book or audiodrama that's hit the marketplace since is, to me, an offshoot.

and just because some suit as DCP accepted a licencing fee and deemed something "official" doesn't make it part of series continuity for me because the series is over.

so digressing no matter what offshoot products decide that Liz is Vicki's mother(which is after all the sentimental fan favorite so why mess with people's fantasies?)for me it's irrelevant. it didn't happen in the context of the actual series. Joan and Alexandra never played those scenes.

but it sounds like it's a create-your-own-canaon situation these day.

the high handed throwing around of the word "official" doesn't make something part of series canon no matter how many times you use it. it was never revealed, on the series, who Vicki's parents were. that's really the beginning and end of it.


as for RTC to me it was just a performance(perhaps "skit" is too diminutive)using that actors available that year. if others want to read more into it because it was "official" whatever.


as I recall the Ross novels were "official" too and they spent a lot of time talking about someone named "professor veno" who was I think Liz and Roger's creepy brother. what's he up to these days?

even though it's being written by a series' castmember Parker's upcoming novel on Vicki's backstory is still in essence elevated fan fiction...

no matter what theory Parker comes up with it doesn't really "answer" any of the questions about Vicki's parentage because it's just Parker's own interpretation. and no matter how many times it's "officially" sanctioned RTC was just a festival skit.

unfortunately because it never actually took place onscreen none of those questions can ever definitively be "answered".

well fans have certainly taken that almost as a given despite the fact that it never actually made it into the scripts. it's almost an established part of series' lore.


to keep liz a sympathetic figure in that scenario it would have been interesting to know why on god's green earth she would have sent her first born child to live in some god-forsaken orphanage somewhere. but we'll never know.

1968 had some fun moments and characters(certainly Cassandra sashaying around Collinwood in a series if puke green shifts was always worth a look)but as an overall narrative I found it to be the most singularly poor period on the series until the whole enterprise starts to run out of steam in 1840.


with the boorish and boring adam as the period's set piece character I found it interminable and almost insufferable. to say nothing of the way the original cast was relegated to the hinterlands in his favor. and what was the whole plan...a "master race dedicated to serving satan" c'mon.


all that said and in spite of it eve was a fun byproduct of the period. until she hitched her wagon to peter bradford that it.

there were several such dubs in the trailers...


I recall one where liz tells barnabas to "fight on...fight on FOR US". in the film she indeed tells him to fight on but the dramatic "for us" part is never uttered.


and wasn't it already noted that several lines spoken during the initial barnabas/josette flashback sequence in the trailer were never in the film either? come to think of it did josette even speak during that part of the film at all?


and the scene at the breakfast table where barnabas states "my beloved Collinwood...the Collins family!" in the trailer is a verbal pastiche of other lines from the film.

still these things used to air five one hour episodes per week. at now just two half hour episodes, for a total of an hour a week, is a pretty stunning cutback.

I thought the fans wanted these shows back. now they have them and they're complaining that they "don't have time" to watch them??? great way to talk your show right back into cancellation.

this situation makes no sense to me.