I'm still on The Beginnings disc (almost onto last - disc 6).
The first thing that absolutely jumps out is what a terrific actress Nancy Barrett is.
I don't know her age in 1966, but, she's on cue, doesn't over or underplay her role; she is truly wonderful to watch and hear.
Next is that we love Joan Bennett, but, in the beginning (but she seems to have gotten the 'hang' of it now, again, I'm on disc 5); she 'spazed' on her lines alot, looking at the teleprompter IN THE BEGINNING.
She's a true actress, in that I mean she either learned her script (singular) for a movie, or, I'm assuming she appeared on stage, where, again, the script would be the same day after day. That has to be very hard to go from 'sameness' to completely different day after day. But, she's knocking it out of the park already!
I really like Bill Malloy.
Since the whole bleeder valve incident, we're not seeing David. Did TPTB want to see if adult women would be offended by a kid's sociopathic behavior?
I have the DVD paused right now; Vicki has walked into town, and is sitting with Maggie at a table in the coffee shop. Bill Malloy just left to call/see Liz. Maggie is so pretty.
Likes I said, just some musings.
More to follow.
Sorry if to some (who've owned the series for a while) if I'm being tiresome....but this is a 5-layer chocolate cake with sprinkles, cherries, unicorns and rainbows on top for me.
Patti
