Thanks to Lydia and Jackie for the welcomes. I am gonna try to find time for this board every day, I've so far been having fun with the captions. I will try to watch the episode that's being watched every day along with the one we're doing on Jackie's group. It's great to have the DVD's so that I can see them all.

Alondra, I'm thrilled that you decided to post.     And so glad that you're enjoying yourself on Caption This!  I realize that it's been a while since you registered, but the Forum guidelines require that all newbies familiarize themselves with board rules, and the topic "The Rules And How To Add Captures/Captions/Comments To This Board" that's stickied to the Caption board is a biggie. 

Really? Maybe it's just me, but because of the way Joan Bennett and especially Dennis Patrick play their scenes together, I LOVE each and every one of them. And also, no matter how repetitive the threats might become sometimes, they get to trade some priceless barbs with each others. The dialogue in their scenes is often quite spectacular (unlike, say, the overly repetitive threats poor Robert Rodan is saddled with as Adam in the latter half of his storyline).

I'm sure it's not just you, and I agree that there were some great lines, but didn't it take [spoiler]nearly 50 episodes for Liz to finally tell somebody?[/spoiler] That's a long time to be hearing the same threats and to maintain tension.

The whole long scene in the Blue Whale was very soapy.  Nancy Barrett acted it well, and I suppose it was a necessary wrap-up to a storyline (the sort of thing that was occasionally skipped later in the series), but if this had been the first Dark Shadows episode I ever saw, it would probably have been my last.  I've never seen any episode before #210, though, and I daresay I'd feel differently about the Blue Whale scene if I'd seen the lead-up to it.

I LOVE that scene!  But I see it as not just a wrapup of the love triangle that is Joe/Carolyn/Burke; it showed that Carolyn is changing-- growing up, even, and resentful of the label "spoiled brat"-- which I find sad considering that her mother's actions will soon cause her to take a step backwards.  But that's me.

I do wish that character development of the original players didn't eventually take a backseat to supernatural plotting.

Jason and Elizabeth are still fun to watch, and I agree with everyone who would have liked to see Dennis Patrick and Joan Bennett play a couple.

For me, it's the continuous banter between them that became tiresome and made me grateful for the Barnabas stuff.  Yes, we get that he's villainous, and that he has a good lady cornered.  <yawn!>

Burke:  A toast... to things best served cold!  Beer, pizza, hard cash, revenge, your mother...

Z is for zzzz, which was a necessary requirement of the dream curse.

It amazes me how people have such a hard time putting 1 and 2 together, and sometimes even 3.

1. Mrs. Johnson had been telling Willie about the legends of the Collins family being buried with their jewels
2. Willie asks where Naomi is buried
3. Willie disappears carrying tools

COME ON! A 5 year old could string that line together.

Yes!  And she believed that Willie's expression of sorrow after learning that Barnabas died in England indicated that there's still some good in him.  Oh please!  And this from a woman whose son has "itchy fingers."

Naomi wasn't buried with the rest of the family, but was buried at Eagle Hill Cemetery.... where the family mausoleum sits. Makes sense to me.

 

...but I'm afraid that I do not think your posts have been particularly morally uplifting.  Weren't you shocked - SHOCKED - when Liz spoke to Jason as if she, a mere female, were better than he, a man and therefore by definition God's greatest gift to womankind?  And yet you said nothing!  (Neither did I, but I'm still concentrating on mastering the "intelligent" part.)

Um...  :-

JosettesMusicBox,

S was done, but would you like to try the next letter?