also adam!
Lots of folks seem to dislike the Adam storyline. Why is that? I kind of liked that storyline. It wasn't my favorite, but it had lots of great moments. I truly pitied Adam. Robert Rodan did an excellent job of playing the chidlike, misunderstood Frankenstenian "outsider" qualities in the character IMO. Marie Wallace also did a great job playing the evil and nasty Eve.
Interestingly, two of the most disliked storylies among fans are the Adam and Leviathan storylines. Both of these followed the immensely popular 1795 and 1897 stories. These two followup stories had some big shoes to fill and seem to have left many disappointed. I guess it's kind of how a sequel to a great movie might be pretty good or ok, but rarely equals of surpasses the greatness of the first film.
The first time I watched the series as a youngster and as a teen (from Barnabas' intro up until 1/2 way through 1970 PT) I wasn't fully aware of fandom (I discovered DS fandom at some point while channel 58 in Cape Cod was running the sydicated episodes). I really enjoyed all of the series I had seen up until that point, and once I started getting the 'zines (and nowadays, especially on the internet), I was pretty surprised to find so many hated the Adam and Leviathan stories.
Now that I've seen the whole series (except for some parts of Pre-Barnabas which I'm just getting to now), I'd say the low point for me was probably 1841PT. I certianly didn't hate it and I thought the Lottery storyline was pretty darn twisted and cool. It was just that it seemed more like a DS "spinoff" since all the main characters were left in Real Time and we wound up watching and trying to connect to these parallel characters without an anchor to real time (as we had with Barnabas, and later Julia, in 1970PT). It was DS though, so IMO, it was still good stuff nontheless.
~Penny Dreadful~