And Even Yet Another New Slideshow

[Gothick]

I think the photo today shows Blair Brown who played Liz.  I'm not familiar with Miss Brown's work... she might have been on the West Wing, which seems very appropriate for DS (cheesy joke I know but I couldn't resist it).

I have no idea what the director had in mind with how they chose to play the scene where Liz welcomes Vicki to Collinwood.  She comes across as a babbling idiot.  One of the moments in the pilot that still makes *me* wince whenever I recall it.

It almost plays as if Miss Brown was improvising how SHE would have written or done the scene and the director liked it so much he decided to keep it.

Other than that, I liked Miss Brown as Liz, and I look forward to continuing with the series.  Thanks again to everybody who worked on this, and special thanks to MB for your posts--truly awesome work!

G.

[Mysterious Benefactor]

ACTORS:	CAST OF CHARACTERS (as they're listed and described in the script):
ALEC NEWMAN	BARNABAS COLLINS - an undead vampire accidentally released after being locked away for 200 years. He is tormented by his curse and desperately drawn toward...
MARLEY SHELTON	VICTORIA WINTERS - early 20s, beautiful, hired to tutor young David Collins, and an exact double of Barnabas' 1790s fiance, Josette Dupres.
ALEXANDER GOULD	DAVID COLLINS - nine years old, troubled son of Roger Collins.
MARTIN DONOVAN	ROGER COLLINS - David's father, a ruthless businessman.
BLAIR BROWN	ELIZABETH COLLINS STODDARD - Roger's older sister. Her husband mysteriously absent, she lives a solitary life with Roger and Carolyn in Collinwood.
JESSICA CHASTAIN	CAROLYN STODDARD - Elizabeth's 20-ish daughter, still living at home.
JASON SHAW	JOE HASKELL - mid-20s, Carolyn's boyfriend. Works as a fisherman out of the Collinsport harbor.
MATT CZUCHRY	WILLIE LOOMIS - early 20s, former Collinsport high school football star, works as a handyman at Collinwood.
JENNA DEWAN	SOPHIA LOOMIS - Willie's younger sister, a maid at Collinwood.
KELLY HU	DR. JULIA HOFFMAN - The Collins family physician, and a close friend to Roger and Elizabeth.
NOT CAST	SAM EVANS ( 50s ) - Owner of the Blue Whale bar in Collinsport, friend of Carolyn and Joe.
NOT CAST	MAGGIE EVANS ( 20s ) - Sam's daughter, friendly with Carolyn, fascinated with spirituality (tarot cards, etc.)
MICHAEL D. ROBERTS	SHERIFF PATTERSON - Collinsport's top cop.
NOT CAST	SARAH COLLINS - ( 8 ). In future episodes, we will discover that she is the ghost of Barnabas' younger sister from the 1790s.
IVANA MILICEVIC	ANGELIQUE - ( 20s ), a beautiful, vindictive witch. In future episodes we will learn that she was Barnabas' illicit lover in the 1790s. She has come back from death to either reunite with Barnabas, or destroy him.
	And oddly not described on the CAST OF CHARACTERS page in the script:
ALEXIS THORPE	KELLY GREER - early 20s, Willie's girlfriend and (well, maybe we'll leave all that as a surprise for those who don't know).

[DarkLady]

Thanks, MB! A lot of those people have come up in the world too, like Jessica Chastain.

[KMR]

Looking at the cast list, I was pleased that they continued using the name "George Patterson" for the sheriff.  I was rather disappointed that they didn't use this name in the 2012 movie--with all of the nods toward the original source material, it's odd they left this one out.

[Cousin_Barnabas]

I was disappointed with the lack of "George" as well. 

[Nicky]

Interesting that Sam runs the Blue Whale and Maggie is fascinated by the tarot, a la the 1991 incarnation.

[Mysterious Benefactor]

I honestly think that the script has a lot more in common with the '91 DS than it does with the original show. Though I don't think that's too surprising because the script was written after consultations with DC, and we know that previous to the '04 pilot when DC tried to relaunch DS either as the two feature films or as a series again, the scripts were all based in some way on the '91 version but with some new twists and turns added. As the slideshow progresses, we'll see quite a few nods to the '91 DS. But the very good thing is that we'll see much fewer nods to hoDS. 

[Josette]

Thank you!  I remember looking into who all these people were at the time, but by now I had forgotten most of them.  It's interesting to see Jessica Chastain listed.  It was probably the first I had heard of her and now she's done so many "big" things.

[Mysterious Benefactor]

As for today's quote -

Page 07 - Elizabeth: 'Miss Winters, I know. We were getting worried.'

- what Liz actually says in the pilot at this point is: "I know who you are. Come in, come in, come in. Oh, you're so wet." I may have neglected to mention that it's been raining all this time - though raindrops were quite visible on the train's windows during the opening voiceover sequence, so you may have presumed on you're own that it's been raining. 

Where did the bit about getting worried go? Well, we'll learn that tomorrow...

[DarkLady]

I do like that sort of courtyard thing that is the background pic of the moment.

[KMR]

Yeah, that's a neat courtyard that Greystone has.  In that pic, it's looking east-northeast through the driveway "tunnel" that cuts through the northwest wing of the house.  That courtyard is where the actual main entrance to the house is, I believe.  The door is on the middle landing of the grand staircase.  (IIRC, in the 1991 series that door was replaced by a window for the Old House interiors, with the main entrance being at the other end of the room across from the real main entrance.)

[Mysterious Benefactor]

Yes, that's where the main entrance to the house is located (to the right and through the pillars), which is why I chose that picture -

- of "Collinwood" (i.e. Greystone) for Vicki's arrival in the pilot. And for those unfamiliar with the house, here's the entrance to the archway from the back of the house -

- and from the courtyard.

 

[Mysterious Benefactor]

And what's different in the pilot about today's quote:

Page 07 - Elizabeth: 'I'm Elizabeth Collins Stoddard. Welcome to Collinwood.'

Well, after Liz introduces herself is when she says to Vicki "We were getting so worried about you."

So what happened to "Welcome to Collinwood"? Well, that is actually Liz' first line after they enter the Great Hall - but that doesn't come until the next scene. And speaking of that scene, unlike what we've been seeing so far, virtually all of it makes it intact into pilot and with much of the exact same dialogue as in the script. 

[Gothick]

so Greystone was used for the 2004 Collinwood as well?  I had forgotten all about that.

G.

[Mysterious Benefactor]

I just realized that Vicki's arrival at Collinwood in the pilot's slideshow and her first exposure to the Great Hall will be playing concurrently with Vicki's similar circumstances in the slideshow for the Depp/DS film. How serendipitous.