Things to Hate About DS

[dvlvan26]

Hello All!

Name the things/characters to hate about DS.

[Luciaphile]

Actors who mistake touching their hair for emoting 

[Mysterious Benefactor]

Cheap, insufferable pigs. 

The way Roger treated David in the pre-Barn episodes.

The way Barn frequently treated Julia.

The way Barn frequently treated Willie.

The lengths Angelique went to whenever she perceived some woman to be a threat.

The fact that some of the bit players (Elizabeth Eis, Brian Sturdivant, etc.) were never given bigger roles.

The fact that a certain actor () was given TOO MANY roles.

John Yaeger's nose.

The 1795, 1840 and 1897 Trasks.

And last but certainly not least: an actor who touched his hair WAY TOO OFTEN!

[TERRY308]

I hated the John Yeagers nose too.

Roger and Elizabeth in parallel time.  It like they were asking Quentin for a raise on they're allowence.
 

The actresses who had taken 'Vicki's' place...they just couldn't do it.

And that one guy who was always touching his hair.

[Raineypark]

The way Barn frequently treated Willie.

....I was going to say THAT !!

[Mysterious Benefactor]

The way Barn frequently treated Willie.

....I was going to say THAT !!

And you just did. 

Just because someone else said it, doesn't mean another person can't say it too. After all, three of us have mentioned a certain hair touching actor. 

[Raineypark]

Carl's last episode.
 

[Julia99]

The way they rushed from one story to another

The lack of character development & background stories for some of our main kids, Willie, Julia specifically (where were they from anyway?  Didn't they have their own relatives?)

[Raineypark]

Now that you mention it, I can't recall what, if anything, was ever said about Willie's family.

[Maria_Merriweather]

They never resolved the mystery of Vicky's origins.
Her character became less important as the series began to emphasize the supernatural .

[michael c]

adam...much of the 1968 story...how the vicki character deteriorates after 1795.

[Amy Jennings Fan]

Chris Jennings' last episope
 

[Countess]

Not a single stinkin' kiss between Barnabas and Julia!!!!!!  Sorry, but 40 years later and I'm STILL %*$)# mad about that!

Countess (who can hold a grudge like no other.)

[Sandor]

Chris Jennings' last episope
 

I couldn't have said it better. I still have issues with the writers letting Chris and Amy simply disappear into the ether, when we'd invested such time and concern in their plight. Just to have Julia comment, "Ah, Barnabas, isn't it great how Chris and Amy moved to that cute ocean-front split level in California, and can enjoy a full moon now, without fear of excess hair growth and visions of pentagrams?!"

[Midnite]

Now that you mention it, I can't recall what, if anything, was ever said about Willie's family.

This is iffy because Jason shared his friend's backstory off-camera , and he may have exaggerated the details anyway to gain Burke's sympathy, but Burke's response to hearing about Willie's past was something like, "He hated his mother and he carried a security blanket until he was 19."  Of course Burke was being sarcastic, but I think the implication was that Willie had a terribly sad relationship with his mother.  But we do know for sure that Willie already had a police record when he arrived in Collinsport.