Ghosts on DS

[TNickey2003]

New poll for DS Forums.

[Amy Jennings Fan]

Jeremiah Collins with his head all bandaged.

[stefan]

Jeremiah Collins with his head all bandaged.

I was appalled the way Jeremiah's ghost was handled, especially since Jeremiah was killed abruptly and this sensitive, caring and intelligent person was still fresh in my mind. So was a very appealing Anthony George. One of the great tragedies that was never considered much by the writers was the injustice done to this frist class individual by our favorite heroine Angelique. Not only was she instrumental in causing him enormous misery by having him elope with his nephew's finacee, whom he didn't love, but she also dragged his poor bandaged carcass all over creation, using his ghost for her own purposes until finally he turned on her. I also never really understood why Jeremiah turned on Barnabas, he must have known by that point that it was Angelique put a curse on both him and Barnie causing them to act the way they did. Or, maybe (and this could be intriguing) maybe Jeremiah also realized in his ghostly way, that Barnabas had an affair with Angelique and might have been partly responsible for the whole mess. In any case, I never felt Jeremiah's ghost was frightening, just sad. Josette's ghost in 1897 was scarier to me because it almost seemed like she was aggressively trying to take over Kitty's soul. This was strange as Josette wasn't known for her aggressive tendencies, so what was the deal with this? Again, the possibilities were intriguing but the writers never seemed to follow-up or investigate what they might have been implying or should have been implying.

[Barnabas'sBride]

My vote was for Quentin. I was impressed with how creepy he was. I think perhaps it was because he was silent, and with his theme playing on the victrola...it just worked. The laughter once he was alone in Collinwood...chilling.

[Josette]

I went for Gerard.  That first view of him in 1995 with that curled lip was so horrifying.  And there seemed to be this heavy, frightening atmosphere hanging over everything in that story.

[PennyDreadful]

  Quentin's ghost was the scariest IMO.  He always had this eerie evil presence about him.  Gerard was pretty scary too.   

[Misa]

Quentin was the most scary ghost. Jeremiah didn't even seem like he was the ghost of Jeremiah, and Josette in 1897 was just badly handled. I loved the idea of Kitty being Josette's reincarnation, but if she was, how could she also be a ghost at the same time. It would have been kind of cool if the writer's had had Kitty's character in the present day and involved with Roger instead of Edward.

Gerard's ghost was a pale copy of Quentin's to me, the writers made some changes but it still seem to be a poor retelling of the 1968-69 haunting.

Then when they went backto 1840, it seemed even more similar. They bring in Pansy again renaming her Leticia, Judah is a sort of Petofi, I feel that they ruin Angelique with the whole Miranda thing, and then having Barnabas say that she was his one true love? Not a good time for Dark Shadows.

They should have had Barnabas and Julia fix the ghost problem in the present, because the whole 1840 storyline contradicted what happened in 1897. How can Edith have died in 1840? This would have changed so much, it could have even prevented Quentin from ever being born.

They went back in time three times too many for me, when Barnabas goes back to save Vicki, When Barnabas and Kitty are drawn back to the 1790's, (making Kitty completely disappear, she is devoured by Josette) and the 1840 trip which side steps into 1841 PT).

I think that staying in the present and doing things with the present day characters would have been more interesting. After all they were great characters, Quentin was a wasted opportunity, Daphne could have become Liz's new secretary after being brought back to life (don't you think David was getting too old to need a governess?), Roger could have become involved with Josette's gold digging reincarnation, Barnabas could have been trying to win her over, Everyone could have marveled at how Maggie and Kitty looked alike, and Maggie could have become Maggie again. But of course, only for a while because KLS moved to England.

If they had stayed in the present Gerard wouldn't have seemed so much a copy of Quentin's ghost (I also think that they had too many characters named Quentin and each one was a more watered down version then the previous one). I loved the way they introduced Gerard's ghost that was scary! The trip to 1995, the ruined house, The crazy Carolyn, Quentin, Mrs. Johnson. Gerard seemed truly frightening. But then they wrecked it when they went back in time.

So Quentin's ghost was the most evil, scary ghost on Dark Shadows.

Misa

[IluvBarnabas]

Quentin's ghost was the only one that had a disturbing effect on me, so I would have voted for him.

[RachelDrummand]

You left out Sarah's ghost and all the other children ghosts for that matter! *shocked* Anyway, I like Quentin's ghost...and Gerard and Daphne too.

[Devlin66]

ghost of sam evans with his sunglasses was ghastly....the writers didn't even give him a funeral

[Lydia]

Oh, gosh, Devlin66, now I'm picturing Maggie throwing Sam out with the trash.

[Taeylor Collins]

I thought that Gerard was the scariest ghost in 1995 only.  Quentin would be my second vote.