Now to write an audio drama for Big Finish to establish this as canon.

are there those who consider the 'big finish' productions to be "canon"?

true,

each storyline gives the character a slightly different setup. in one he runs a school and in one he runs a funeral parlour.

but essentially lacey gives the same broad performance. the seasoned viewer knows exactly what to expect when he first walks onto the set in the new time period. they always represents the same thing. i swear if he uses this expression "in league with the DEVIL!" one more time i'll scream.

incidentally why is a funeral parlour director acting as the prosecuting attorney in a court of law?

i'd be willing to bet ms. woronko's fest appearance was a one time deal...


those "nurse pritchet" t-shirts must be in a goodwill bin somewhere now.

dear jesus!!!


i just watched the episode where quentin is formally charged with WITCHCRAFT and threatened with BEHEADING.

and who's the judge responsible for this outlandish charge but dr. lang himself ADDISON POWELL! back in action after a two year rest cure. and if he doesn't amp up the camp value of these proceedings no one can!

i liked leviathans too heather. and i loved 1970 parallel-time. flaws and all.


i just can't take this.

yes and as roxanne was now barnabas' SYT of choice it would have been interesting to have KLS play a character with no association with josette.

yes virginia vestoff's viperous samantha is one of the period's few high points. and any scene with ang at her most deranged is always worth a look.

flora's not bad but lacks the haughtiness that makes a joan bennett characterization so memorable. besides she's a pretty minor character with limited screentime. old timers like joan and louis are clearly no longer the series priorities as the late, younger castmembers dominate the proceedings.

as far as leticia goes she's just warmed over pansey faye for no apparent reason other than that pansey must a have been a popular character at the time. personally i found pansey fun for about five minutes in 1897 and then immensely grating ever after so having a carbon copy of her around for yet another storyline isn't helping.


gothick obviously i'm not through yet but you make it sound as though some of the 1970 mysteries reappear...because for the life of me i cannot see what any of this has to do with tad and carrie, who barely show up at all, the playroom, the java queen or any of the other plot points of the story setup.


i've been trying to figure out what else is missing and i think i know what it is...KLS! i'm not her biggest fan but she certainly lends her distinctively DS presence to all of the other time period and storylines and here her absence feels somehow like a void. while the "josette" element was certainly played out by this point without a KLS character swanning about something feels off.

i'm still desperately slogging through the 1840 episodes...


however once the "witchcraft" nonsense takes on steam i almost have to just walk away. i mean am i missing something here? why on earth are people in the middle of the nineteenth century, the dawn of the modern age, running around babbling about witchcraft??? why is it being taken seriously? by anyone?

by this point in the run did the writers just assume that those "kids that ran home from school" wouldn't know enough about history to understand that this concept was two hundred years out of date? or because it's DS are we just supposed to throw common sense out the window?

or was it just an excuse for jerry lacey to revive his unbearably obnoxious character from 1795?


incidentally who the heck is david selby supposed to be playing here? he looks and acts and talks just like "real time" quentin right down to the glued on sideburns. i'm surprised they didn't try and give him that stupid gramophone just for the sake of brand continuity. is the viewer just supposed to associate him with "real" quentin and thus give a darn what happens to him? i mean he's supposed to be a different character, right?

this storyline kills me.