Happy Birthday Darling!

xo Gothick

For those who wish to see it, the deleted scene from season 1 of PENNY DREADFUL screened at SDCC has been posted on Youtube.  The scene, though it was originally part of an early episode of the season (episode 2, I believe; it would have come, possibly, at the end) is being described as "spoilery" because it foreshadows developments to be played out in the new season next year:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YU0BjgtsUxI

It's also a bit spoilery (just a bit) for the first season finale episode.

I have to say, this clip really encapsulates just why this season gives off major DARK SHADOWS vibrations to me... I would submit that THIS is the direction anyone choosing to attempt to revive DS again should explore.  I personally feel that DS is probably better off resting on its laurels, at this point...

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Alec if anything is even sexier now than back in 2004!  That was a great role for him in DRACULA.  Wish the character had gotten more than one episode; nice to think he got a free trip to Hungary out of it.

Thanks for this awesome narrative, MB.  Again, I have no recollection at all of this scene from the screening.  I'm starting to wonder if I had dozed off.  BTW I am very happy to report that I have finally gotten a diagnosis for my sleep apnea and am at the end of day 3 of sleeping with a CPAP.  And the change, for the better, is already phenomenal.

G.

The confusion comes from the fact that Maine's territory was part of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts until 1820, when Maine voted to secede and become its own state.  This means that 1810, when the backstory of NIGHT OF DS was set, Collinsport was still a part of Massaachusetts:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maine

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I don't know just how the legalities played out but as we've discussed in the past, it would seem that MOST of the DS cast were not actually under contract.  Which is why people such as John Karlen, Clarice, Thayer, et al. came and went.  Both Nancy and Louis took occasional breaks to do theatre, as did Humbert.  All of this helps explain why Frid felt he was getting shafted after a certain point because everyone else had been allowed to come and go and by the Summer of 1969, he hadn't had a break of any kind in two years.  Not only that, he was often made to do those dog and pony show weekend appearances in places like Peoria, Teaneck, Baton Rouge etc.  They worked him really hard. 

I always thought that when KLS came back to NYC from her time away, she dropped by the studio just to say hi to whoever happened to be working then.  It's possible Dan did set up a formal meeting via her agent, of course. 

When she left again in '70 to move to Paris, according to her original memoirs, he actually told her that if she did leave, she would never work again.  lol.

Of course as we've seen many times before, KLS's memories, even from the 1980s, need to be weighed against other recorded facts... but I can really imagine DC having said this to her.  No doubt while putting the golf ball around the office in true Sixties exec style.

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I guess this is a good opportunity for her, but I would really like to see her given some serious, well-crafted material.  This sounds as if it will be another of Burton's exercises in horror-farce with clown makeup and googly FX.

At least one may presume the pay will be good.

G.

I know I read somewhere that DC was planning to do a bigscreen version of 1795 as the sequel to hoDS.  How it would have played out is anybody's guess.  Presumably cast members such as Thayer, Karlen, Grayson et al whose characters had been killed off in hoDS would have portrayed some of the 18th century personnel.  The original scenario could have been rewritten to provide new roles for some such as Karlen.

G.