This is my favorite of the clips available... there are at least two more from the Cheep Production days...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nEEmE1xP6g

Best, G.

Again I must thank you, MB, for taking the time out to transcribe all of this.  I wish I had any memory of this current scene.  I do remember how handsome, dashing, and poignant Alec's performance was in the role.

Best,

G.

This is just too cool!  I don't even recall the shot of the portrait from my one viewing of the pilot, so had I been admitted to the mansion, I am afraid I wouldn't even have recognized that.  It is bizarre that WB never claimed their property.  I wonder if it's still there?  You know that painting would fetch a pretty price at a Festival auction.

Even though the date is given as 1788 to my untutored eye it looks more early 1800s.  Certainly very Byronic.

Thanks so much to Midnite and MB!  Happy Holidays!

G.

I saw an ad somewhere last night, or maybe it was this morning (my brains are literally frying in the extreme heat we're experience today) stating that all the existing episodes are available for free viewing on fox.com over the next month or so as a promotion for the new season of this show.  I may have misunderstood that, but this was what the ad seemed to state when I saw it.

visions of naked Tom Mison dance through my head...

G.

Wow.  I'm away for four days and the hospital scene STILL continues.  I guess it will simply go on till Yule...

But I'm grateful to you, MB, for carefully transcribing this dialogue, since I don't recall ANYTHING of the scene between Juiia and Patterson, and I wouldn't want to miss out on her juicy little line about "blood obsessions."

I think you said that Roger was written out of the scene as shot.

Thanks,

G.

It's nice to see them including more cast members again.  I wonder if any fan vendors will be selling stuff.

G.

I am now officially bored with the hospital scene(s).  Did any of it survive the final cut?  I guess if I check your charts, I will be able to tell.  It seems to be taking up an awful lot of what was only a 40 minute piece of film. The only dramatic significance, apart from showing the audience what's happened to Carolyn and filling in some very cliche (for a vampire drama) medical details, is to introduce the characters of Julia and the Sheriff.  I don't even remember the Sheriff at all from my one viewing.

I'm also starting to remember stuff from the viewing that really did not work for me, but I'll hold off on talking about that until later in this thread.

G.