Thanks for this post, Patti.  I thought I was the only DS fan on the planet who truly appreciates the delirium that is late Leviathans.

G.

My belated birthday blessings to you, Patty, and my heartfelt condolences upon your loss.  May your memories of him in happier times bring you comfort.

Best, Steve (Gothick)

I finished watching it tonight, and I thought the opening segment with Sebastian Cabot was the best part by far. But it was interesting and fun to see.

Thanks again for posting the link!

G.

I somehow see Depp Shadows as spawning its own fandom with their own thing.  I don't know whether they will do conventions or whether it will all just be online.  The press about that Comicon a few months ago and how the big studios are perceived as withdrawing from it because the current buzz is that people would rather just do everything online as opposed to traveling to an in-person, fleshspace event, if founded upon legitimate perceptions of younger fan behavior, could again mean only marginal overlap between the Depp Shadows fans and the classic series fans.

But maybe I haven't a clue what I'm nattering on about ... time will tell.  I've already been surprised at all the twittering around episodes of the classic series that I gather people are streaming via Netflix...

G.

Thanks again MB for all your hard work.  The difference, at least visually, is really quite dramatic, so I can only guess at how extreme the stuff YOU have to deal with must be.

Thanks for reassuring us that the current look is a placeholder, and please do take whatever time you need to get it all done to your satisfaction.

Best wishes,

Gothick

MB, it's fascinating that you have such an exhaustive knowledge of the production history of this series, and such a rich store of rare material relating to it.

Thanks for the work you and Midnite did on this project.  I found it much more interesting than I had expected, and certainly more engaging than watching the actual series (from 1991) has ever proved...

G.

Misterioso darling,

I'm not sure that thinking, in general, is an activity that Kathie Lee spends much time upon, period.

Her voice bears a startling resemblance to that of a magpie.  Really rather remarkable.

Joanna Going always impressed me with her poise and sense of occasion.  A worthy successor to the quietly aristocratic, always superbly dignified Alex Moltke Isles.

G.

Yes Magnus, Barnabas has dialogue in that scene that goes something like, "the past is constantly being re-lived, ever changing..." which seems to have become one of the operating mottos for the writers on DS.

G.