Isn't there some place on the board where all the screen captures can be viewed, not just the handful at the top of the page?

Too broad a subject, maybe, but it occurred to me to bring up a couple of interesting ways DS chose to go about telling a story, and ask for any other examples others could think of....

First, the unveiling of "good" Barnabas in the first place, not as a gradual transition caused by certain life events in the 20th century, but instead by zooming us suddenly back, without warning, to 1795, where we get to see, totally unexpectedly (to viewers at the time anyway) an utterly unstained Barnabas, who then is put through an horrific series of events that really make us ache over the innocence that's ripped out of him, when the bad rubber bat finally gets him.     There's a run-on sentence for you.   Sorry.

Also, there's the example of the fact that the entire 1795 storyline is a foregone conclusion, which has to conclude with Barnabas-- who has been remade into a protagonist--  being nailed into the coffin.   We know this has to happen from the very first moment Victoria Winters appears in 1795, yet we watch fascinated anyway.   We know how it has to end and know we won't be surprised, and the monster who's destined to get it in the end we end up cheering for... but we buy the storyline and stay with it anyway.   That was a brave decision, to launch a storyline like that, and commit so much time to it.    Perhaps they knew the fascination a long, drawn-out story of inevitable, unavoidable doom can have.     There's a very black sort of romance to that, that most people may not be able to identify with.

I should add that my tapes end with BC being bitten, and only pick up in 1897 when [spoiler]Shaw is saving the kids from the fire,[/spoiler]so all the intervening events are unknown to me.     So please don't tell me the stuff inbetween.