What did other writers want to do after 1897??

[Nancy]

I think that was DC's doing, not the writers.

He wanted more and more, bigger and bigger every day.

Nancy

with such a great regular cast it's strange that the writers felt that they needed to come up with a new monster,or gimmick,or time travel element every few months.

[Taeylor Collins]

WORD MSCBRYK!  I agree totally.   

[Doug]

I would have like to know what the writers came up after the 1841 Parallel Time. We have read about a possible return to 1971 where Liz and Roger finds out that Barnabas was a vampire and Julia travels to Asia to search for Adam. That would have been a great story.

[Taeylor Collins]

You know Doug I was thinking the about starting a thread about that.  We know from the Sam Hall interview in TV guide that they sort of had a map of what they wanted to do.   When JF resigned did he say he would "NEVER" play Barney again or just wanted to play someone else for a "while" to give him a chance to try his hand with something else?

[katrinavantassel]

If DC, who I think was the force behind this, wasn't so quick to run through storylines, I think the result would have been a lost more interesting. Many points were dropped, never explained, never mentioned again. To me, this is a lost opportunity.

I remember an interview with James Storm on one of the dvds and he said they were fitting him for another costume but then word came the show was canceled. Wonder what that story would have been? I agree Taeylor, this would be an interesting thread.

[Doug]

Well Taeylor I do remember reading the book "The Dark Shadows Companion" where it said that JF wanted to play another character besides Barnabas for the 1841 Parallel time.

[Taeylor Collins]

YES...I am aware he wanted to play someone else...but did he sign a contract saying he would never play Barney again or just wanted to play another character for a while. then if they returned to normal time he would resume Barney!  This is if the show lasted.  I am pretty sure he signed a long term contract because at that point they didn't know the show was going off! 

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[buzz]

I would have like to know what the writers came up after the 1841 Parallel Time. We have read about a possible return to 1971 where Liz and Roger finds out that Barnabas was a vampire and Julia travels to Asia to search for Adam. That would have been a great story.

It sounds like an interesting idea. The removal of Adam was very abrupt and it would have been interesting to present the return of an educated, scarless Adam, perhaps with the ability to assist Barn, Julia or Stokes in some supernatural dilemma (hmnnn...involved with Nicholas Blair, perhaps?).

As someone stated, many storylines were incomplete or abruptly ended to go on to another situation, which was unfortunate. A little more time to develop stories and characters would have been an asset.     

[PennyDreadful]

  We never actually found out if Adam went to the surgeon, and I prefer to think he did not.  I like to imagine that  Adam, disgusted with the horror of what he was,  ran out into the night.  I imagine that he separated himself from the rest of mankind for some time and went to an isolated place to contemplate his own monstrous nature as well as the monstrous nature of humanity.  Perhaps he eventually came to befriend someone who liked him just the way he was - scars, pallor, sweater and all.  When Barnabas went back in time to 1897 either his bond with Adam broke or, maybe, Adam went into the past as well.  And you can bet Stokes knew where he was the whole time.  Stokes always struck me as someone who knew a lot more than he let on.

[MagnusTrask]

I wish we hadn't been subjected to the boring part of his maturation, with his then leaving DS the moment things were about to become interesting for him.