Halloween brings 'Dark' memories

[Mysterious Benefactor]

From The Quad-Cities Times Web site: Halloween brings 'Dark' memories

However, I wouldn't quite agree that DS is "moribund." But then, what should one expect from the author of an article that claims the 2004 pilot was commisioned by FOX and who refers to Barnabas alternately as Barnaby? 

[PennyDreadful]

Moribund?!  Ridiculous!    

[Misa]

This guy obviously doesn't know what he's talking about, or writing about. Dark Shadows wasn't on at lunch time, and it certainly isn't "moribund". Why can't these people write about something they know about?

Misa

[Ian]

This guy obviously doesn't know what he's talking about, or writing about. Dark Shadows wasn't on at lunch time, and it certainly isn't "moribund". Why can't these people write about something they know about?

Only too true, Misa! Looking at that sentence where kids used "race home during lunchtime," (Pfft!) it makes it sound like the show actually ran from 1966 until 1991. XD And I never realized that FOX and the WB were synonomous.  Oh, and I wish he had referred to the DS Fests not as occasional, but more like...annual. It makes it sound like the fests are these spur of the moment things that the cast decides to put on.

Oh, and one more thing...

MORIBUND? Don't make me laugh. XD Evidently he's never seen our fanbase.

[BuzzH]

About the ONLY thing this idiot got right was the show currently has 20 volumes of DVD box sets! 

[Mary Elizabeth]

That was a terrible article! It was like he didn't even research it. 

[MagnusTrask]

Remind me never to use the word "moribund".   It's a pseudo-intellectual way of putting something down for being old and therefore irrelevant (I think), which is an inherently simplistic and narrow-minded attitude.   Using that word covers this up.    You can dismiss anything old in a knee-jerk way, without getting "called" on it.

[TERRY308]

I'd write about this "article" but you guys said it all.  

Who is this idiot?   Did he graduate from high school?

I say we go where he works, drag him out on the street and make fun of him.  And who is his editor.  Did they not read his "article".  Or are they like him...an idiot?

Fore shame on the whole thing.

[Mysterious Benefactor]

It was like he didn't even research it.

I could be wrong, but it certainly seemed to me as if the entire article was probably based on that "hurried check" by the "Rock Island Googlemeister." But then, this is hardly the first time someone has published almost complete foolishness about DS because they haven't bothered to really check the facts. And sadly, it certainly won't be the last - particularly on the Internet, where inaccurate articles are epidemic. 

Remind me never to use the word "moribund". It's a pseudo-intellectual way of putting something down for being old and therefore irrelevant (I think)

Simply saying DS is old and irrelevant wouldn't be as bad as what I think he's really trying to say. In its classic sense referring to something as moribund means it's in a dying state, at the point of death, or breathing its last. And I wouldn't say that DS is in anything resembling that condition.

[Mary Elizabeth]

Simply saying DS is old and irrelevant wouldn't be as bad as what I think he's really trying to say. In its classic sense referring to something as moribund means it's in a dying state, at the point of death, or breathing its last. And I wouldn't say that DS is in anything resembling that condition.

I totally agree, I just recently started to watch it. (on DVD of course)

[Nancy]

This guy obviously doesn't know what he's talking about, or writing about. Dark Shadows wasn't on at lunch time, and it certainly isn't "moribund". Why can't these people write about something they know about?

It really is weird.   The author wrote

"Now its die-hard fans, some of whom used to race home from school during lunchtime to catch episodes shown from 1966 to 1991, may have to settle for re-runs reportedly available on DVD's."

Reportedly?  First of all, he used the plural of DVD incorrectly - it's not the possessive.   Even a casual search on the internet via google or any other search engine demonstrates quite clearly that the episodes are indeed available on DVD.  There's no doubt or "reportedly" about it.  Sheesh!

Bonfire anyone?

Nancy

[Ian]

Bonfire anyone?

I feel compelled for a stern email at the very least. XD

[Nancy]

I feel compelled for a stern email at the very least.

Oh Ian, that's just too . . . . tame.

Nancy

[CyrusL]

  I wonder if he simply meant to use "morbid". You know, as I've said before, after YEARS of hearing DS referred to as almost always dismissively as "the campy vampire soap", I can only get so bristled. On the other hand, I do appreciate when the RARE, emphasis on rare, actually gets in print. I would note David Skal's books on vampires especially "V is for Vampire" and the recent issue of Scary Monsters. KLS has these with her at table at Chiller.

Michael

[CyrusL]

Actually, one of my favorite Halloween memories tied to DS is when I had the Barnabas mini posters from the Gold Key comics taped to the door on Halloween night. Kids all evening went, "WOW, where did you get those?" Now I only wonder, where did I put those? lol Oh well, another thing lost. 

Michael