I wish so much that I could find  the article or interview I read with Barbara Blackburn.  She played Carolyn almost in bisexual way she said.  Can anyone back this up??

Taeylor,

A friend recalls either BB saying that she played Carolyn as though she were trying to seduce Victoria, or JG making the comment with BB present, but he said it was in a filmed interview.

Is there a way to quote two posts at a time??

Yes.  With your response window open, use the Insert Quote button next to the post below that you want to additionally quote.  It will insert the entire text of the quote into your post where you can then remove the parts you are not responding to.  Hope that helped.

Is DS Resurrected the gospel?  After all it is a Pom Press book.

I got Carolyn's age from its Episode Guide.  I don't know who wrote it, but a mistake in it was already noted in the Part 1 discussion.  So I'd say no.

Midnite I am so glad you share my love for Barbara Steele! GODDESS INDEED!

She showed up at several local DS events before I finally was able to speak to her and have her autograph a photo at the Halloween Vista thing.  I tell you, it was a THRILL. 

BTW, I think the bar was called the Three Gables Roadhouse.  It was actually a restaurant & club in Malibu that's now been replaced by a shopping center. 

David is a little hell-raiser and I'm really suprised they didn't just drop him off in some military school (as someone else on here suggested)

Roger was all for sending David to a boarding school, but Elizabeth would have none of it.

Regarding Carolyn's seductiveness, how about her suggestion that Vicki ride "Carolyn"?

And according to DS Resurrected, Carolyn is 18.  Does that fit her "bright lights" story, and what IS the drinking age in Maine?

Count me as another Barbara Steele fan!  I love her first appearance emerging from the train-- a goddess in black boots!  Judging by the look that Julia and Woodard exchanged when the sheriff mentioned the teeth and red eyes of Daphne's attacker, she seems to have gone beyond being "intrigued" (when she first arrived) and knows a good deal by the end of the pilot.

I agree with Cousin Barnabas that the interrogation in the direction scene was very good.  Barnabas says there that he took the liberty of letting himself in.  That must feel satisfying for a vampire who has already been invited inside.

But I cannot stand Gloria and her "Can't you WAIT until we GET into the CAR?"  I get that a town slut was needed to take the place of the prostitute in classic vampire stories, but the former Miss Cowboy USA may have been hired more for her bod and less for her ability to fit in to a small Northeastern town.

If anyone watching the DVD wondered how Vicki knew the horse's name, it's because the VHS has the restored scene that Taeylor mentioned of Carolyn driving Vicki to the stables.  Carolyn explains that when her mother called (presumably because of David), she left the bright lights to return home, though she was just starting to get somewhere with her photography and is still doing some picture taking.  Vicki suggests that since she's there now, Carolyn might be able to go back, but Carolyn says it's hard to leave right now, and Vicki admits she might be right.  After Vicki gets out of the car, Carolyn calls out to her, "Take the chestnut mare.  Her name is Carolyn."

Tarantulas.  They're common here in Southern California, and I found a small one in my bedroom after we first moved in.  My husband returned it to the canyon behind the house.  I don't like spiders, but at least I know that tarantulas are not particularly harmful, and that you would NOT find a lot of them in Maine IF AT ALL.

I also wondered why Willie doesn't lock the gate to the basement during the day, especially with a crew of workers on the premises.

Poor Victoria Winters, but not because of David's pranks.  She is so hopelessly caught up in the romanticism of the ancestral house with its secrets, the story of the tragic woman she resembles, and her mysterious suitor.

Don't get too attached to the portrait of Josette.  

Vicki's smackdown was pretty impressive, with Rodan seeming to take slow, careful aim and the sound effect being just right.  (Apparently, Adam is aware that an open handed slap from the side will render someone unconscious whereas a closed fist strike to the top of the head will kill.)  And Vicki dropped to the floor like a trooper.  Because Betsy's Vicki seemed to always make a spectacle of her emotions, I minded the scene much, much (much) less than I would have minded seeing him slap Alexandra's Vicki.

I just wrote a whole paragraph about one slap!

But when Adam hurts Carolyn, it's no ordinary tantrum.  Now that Nicholas is gone, Adam's going to be evil on his own.  The torch has been passed.

Great point.  Yet he still manages to show the child-like reaction of squeezing and even smacking his own head in an attempt to stop the inner voices.  (Oh, what Roger Davis could have done with that scene!)

Has it been established that you can get into to the basement so quickly without using the door by the staircase?

It's sort of weird to see Betsy Durkin's Vicky getting the Experiment treatment - as if an attempt were being made to transfer the life force of Alexandra Moltke's Vicky to her -

Ow part 2!

Arrrr.  (chorus of other pirates in response... "arrrrrrrr....")   What do ye say me maties to taking over this here message board?!   Who's with me???!!!   (Chorus: "ARRRRR!!!!!")

Avast thar, ye mutinous pirate dogs!!!  (Argh, MB, where be the blasted walk the plank button??!!)

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Taeylor, I was so happy to read that you're feeling better!

My Joanna Going is one lovely woman and I think  there was no other actress who could have played Victoria '91.  Or maybe I am just parcel?? LOL

I think she was a perfect Victoria too, and I was shocked to learn that she almost didn't make it past her early audition.  Apparently we have Dan Curtis to thank for realizing the mistake.  Go figure.

It's interesting that you like the detail that the Collinses don't know how many rooms are in their family home.  That bugged me a little.  Yes, it's huge, but it's no Buckingham Palace... and we do know how many rooms that has.

"I can't believe it!  Our family's first home in America come back to life" Elizabeth  "Yeeeeeeeeeeees"  Barnabas  I absolutely loved how Ben Cross delivered that line.

Me too!  My favorite line so far has to be, "(Barnabas:) My business has always been rather consuming."  Ha ha!

And Willie trying to impress Roger by telling him that instead of working he was spending the time reading, starting with the old books-- too funny.  (Yes, the [Egyptian] Book of the Dead is a real collection of ancient texts.)

Willie can read??!!

Thank you for taking the time to rewrite your review, cuz I know you said you'd lost the first one.  And many thanks for the kind words.