Regarding that so-called "ancient" tree mentioned in the voiceover, after Trask tied Vicki to it in 1796 didn't Angelique burn it til it was a smoldering, charred stump?

And who knew you could hypnotize somebody with a monocle?!

But as Nicholas said in between, "I find that the most interesting things in life are the most unexplainable."

And, here are his hands.  You are quite right in that he is about to make a bunny....

LOL, thank you!!

Would you mind if I saved a copy of that capture?

I thought it was clever they had her nightgown match her sheets.  At least, it wasn't the yellow nightgown with the blue sheets and the green blanket!  Yuck!

Snort!

DarkShadowyFigure,

Thank you so much for checking into it and posting.  The dialogue on the tape indeed comes between those 2 lines (between Vicki's "Good night" and Nicholas' "No, never mind.")   I know the trimmed exchange wasn't crucial, but the fan in me cringes at the thought of it.

I'm currently watching the 1795 SL but the glich mystery made me want to jump ahead for this post!

It was much appreciated!

Just after Nicholas returns the painting to Vicki, he says, "Oh, Miss Winters" and she replies, "Yes?"  At that point in the MPI tape the screen turns a bright green, and I'm curious what happens in that spot on the DVD.


Roger to Nicholas:  "She's an odd girl, Vicki.  She's been acting very strangely lately."  LATELY?  And you shouldn't talk, Mr. Dover Beach.

I wouldn't know where to begin listing why I love Nicky Blair!  It's a pity there's no capture on the forum of the shadows he was casting over Angelique's portrait with his hands.  I was waiting for them to form a bunny.  

My best friend (we had the same first name-- weird, huh?) would go straight home after school to watch DS, but she couldn't convince me to see it too until one day she announced that they'd added a vampire.  We were in the 6th grade, sigh.  Growing up on Universal monster pictures, how could I resist?  I lived the closest-- her family was rich so they lived "on the hill", as it was called then ( to victoriawinters)-- so we went to my house that day and I thought the show was so darn spooky that I was instantly hooked.  From then on we'd take the bus there everyday, watch the show, sometimes would do homework but mostly we goofed around, and her dad would pick her up later.  She developed a crush on Barnabas and I only had to take one look at Quentin before I was a goner.  If someone had told little Midnite that she'd meet David Selby one day, she might've fainted on the spot.

It always intrigues me to read about the discussions that went on in the schools concerning what happened on DS the preceding day.  In my school it was NOT cool to watch DS, so my friend and I kept it to ourselves.   The likely scenario, however, is that all my classmates watched it but didn't admit it.  I tried to get my mom to check it out when she wasn't working, but except for passing by the room now and then to make a comment about Joan Bennett, she wasn't interested.  It was over the recent holidays that she told me I kept pleading with her to watch it because the show "has a vampire, and a witch, and ghosts, and a werewolf!"

I gave the show up during the infamous Leviathans storyline, which was also around the time I started high school.  That year I met my current best friend, but it wasn't until years later that we learned that we'd both watched DS before that.  It's probably not surprising that we both dabbled in different occult things during our teen years.

Flash ahead to 1996 and I'm getting my kids ready for school when my mom calls to leave a message that I'm supposed to turn on the SciFi channel NOW because there's something on there from my childhood.  I did and was blown away seeing Barnabas, newly made a vampire by Angelique.  It made me think of my friend a lot that got me hooked on it and who had passed away a few years earlier.  I saw the DS eps every day after that, taping them usually, til I'd seen them all.  Funny thing is that my mom started watching too at the same time and LOVED it; she even got herself a "handle" and joined me for a while on the SciFi DS boards.  I'm, of course, not one to say "I told you so", but...

Today's L.A. Times (Business, p. 1) reports that the WB has lost some of its younger viewers, yet despite recent failures ("Tarzan", "Birds of Prey") the network will continue to gamble on high-concept shows.  The article is available online, but registration (which is free) is required:

Young Viewers Slipping Away From WB Network:  Viewership is down 18% among 12- to 34-year-olds this season, but co-CEO is not discouraged.

Could it have been Joe Haskell?  I do remember seeing his apt while Angelique was paying him visits to give him the bite.