Perhaps Ford was referring to the TelePrompter?  

Actually, that's exactly what he was referring to.  And in a slightly earlier hospital room scene you can hear a loud noise, but what Ford actually says in that episode is "Where is she?" after Vicki has left the room, not "Where is it?," though IIRC he does seem to gesture to someone off camera and be looking for something.

I just figured he was talking about the upstairs closet that turned into 1. The playroom in 1840 and/or the Staircase Through Time.  

Oh, duh!  Thanks!!

Tsk. Tsk. Tsk. I can't believe I am having to explain this to you of all people. Clearly, it is a reference to the show's fashion horrors. 

 

Ah, you've challenged me Midnite!     Okay, here's what I found incorrect:

SPOILER ALERT!!!

1. DS did not start in 1967 as he claims at the beginning of the article.
2. He claims that there are 1225 episodes LEFT from the intro. of Barnabas on, not 1225 total.
3. He claims Petofi had a brogue, gee, didn't realize he was Irish.  I don't recall him having ANY accent, let alone a brogue.
4. He claims Judith feared being buried alive when it was Liz that feared this.  Then says she shot her husband and buried him in the basement, again this was Liz.  And Liz didn't shoot Paul, she clocked him w/a fire poker.

5. No one's husband was walled up in a basement alcove, if he's talking about Rev. Trask, who's husband was he?
6. There were no shapeshifters that I recall unless he's talking about the Leviathans, and none of them had brothers who were walled up in the West Wing.

You're right here, Buzz, a few details aren't perfect and he was off by about half a year and a couple of hundred episodes, though I don't agree with your original comment that the article was "filled with inaccuracies."  And since it was written as his tongue-in-cheek interpretation of the series and not as a timeline, I think it was generally right on the mark.  The author is obviously a fan who has seen the series more than once but confuses a few of the events as most fans often do.  After all, the DS Program Guide tells us that Lamar Trask was shot, and I won't even get into the errors in KLS' books.  So I can't say I'm surprised that this guy would think Liz shot Paul, or that he mixed Gregory Trask's fate up with his great-great-grandfather's (or great-grandfather's, depending on which DS scene you choose to believe; even the show's writers got tripped up on their own details).

But I am thrilled to have offered you a challenge and honored that you took me up on it!

I'm pretty sure the author didn't say that Judith feared being buried alive.  It was a paragraph about the head of household, and while he never mentioned any names he seemed to go back and forth between Judith and Liz.

As for Petofi, he described him as a "Hungarian diplomat with a Carnaby Street fashion sense and thick-tongued brogue," an interpretation I found hilarious.  But then again I'm easily entertained. 

Werewolves are shapeshifters, btw.

7. Angelique was not left at the alter, Barnabas married her.

That one drove me nuts.  Yes, Barnabas did marry her before dumping her.  But the line reminded me of an experience at a wedding shower years ago where I played one of those lame party games, and in this case it was a word scramble of terms relating to a wedding in which the letters in one entry were something like TALRE, and I could NOT get that the answer was ALTER, nor did the bride realize that weddings take place at an ALTAR. 

Getting back to the article, one thing that stumped me was "closets containing entry to hidden horrors."  Unless he's thinking of the Narnia books , was he perhaps interpreting the I-Ching door in the basement to be a closet?  Or the dream curse doors?  Am I forgetting something?

But anyway, it was refreshing to read a new take on the series as well as an article that doesn't refer to a rabid fan base or use that blasted c-word!  (Camp, that is.)

I was thinking of when Jeff Clark went over to Lang's to look through his stuff, and Barnabas was there.  I think Barn's excuse was that he was looking through his papers or something.  He seemed to sound like he had the right to do that...I dunno.  I just got the impression that Barnabas was in charge of tidying up Lang's estate (or at least that was his excuse for being around there so much).  But I'm probably wrong 

No, no, you're right about what he said to Jeff.  But Barnabas was lying (he was waiting for Julia and totally focused on the experiment), and then he and Jeff all but admitted that neither actually had a right to be there.

It's hinted at, but how much do Professor Stokes and Cassandra know about each other?  He seems to know something about the portrait of Angelique and Cassandra was his student right?

Yes, he was her faculty adviser and responsible for introducing Roger to Cassandra.  (He seemed to make a habit of having students visit him at home, which always struck me as weird.)  Anyway, I'm not sure if you've reached #488-- if not, this would be a Spoiler:

I vaguely remember Barnabas saying something about having to "clean up some papers" or something to that effect after Lang died.  I assumed he was the executor of Lang's will, and therefore would have had to go through all of his stuff and pack it up and give it to his heirs or something - of course no heirs ever showed up.

I suspect you're thinking of his attorney Tony Peterson, who went to Lang's house to clean up his estate and seemingly was the only person to go through his papers for legal purposes.  Of course Julia also went through his papers, and more, to learn how to perform the experiment.

Happy Day to Elmont!  Hope your birthday is great.

Some guy, early 20s and not at all shabby comes into the car and says something I didn't hear.

He said he was "too young for this" and left the car.  Could not have imagined until he returned to say more that it was his dad.  Ugh.

Anyway, I stood when I clapped; it seemed only right.  Was in the last row and all I'd seen was the doors opening and their heads disappearing-- it  was over in a split second, but others closer saw them hit the platform.  The cops reappeared, plus the conductor, and the man was told his ride was over.  Drunk woman was deposited in the closest seat where she promptly passed out.  Had to wonder what happened to her when the train reached the end, and what her reaction was once she sobered up but couldn't figure out why her face was scraped up.  Which wouldn't have happened had they noticed the "Do Not Lean on the Doors" sign only inches from their heads, and the constant announcements to mind the freakin' gap.

Anyone else?