Thanks Michael for the fashion notes.  The hat really isn't working for me.  Too 1940s and too much out of sync with the rest of what he's wearing.  I don't know if they're playing on the whole cousin from England bit and giving him a post-Carnaby Street, proto glamrock look, or what.

I would have preferred a darker color on Vicki's jacket and boots with the Ashley dress... but then, I'm no fashionista.

G.

I played a clip on Youtube.  It looks a lot like the usual CW jazz,mixed in with the current fads around portrayals of werewolves as feral gangsters and vampires as rich, troubled alcoholics... so, I don't know...  I just don't have that much time to watch anything these days.  Nice production values, though.

G.

He just added a Barnabas panel; he says that his look for Barnabas is now "a hybrid" of Jonathan Frid and the look Depp has in the new photos:

http://caltsoudas.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d49syz7

G.

It has a DS vibe?  Interesting. Maybe I should add the first disc to my Netflix queue and give it a shot...

G.

Hi Nancy, after I got over the shock, I had the same line of thought you did about the outlandish white makeup and lipstick, etc.--that in postproduction there may be CGI done over Depp's face, for this scene or possibly throughout the movie (in which case, postproduction is going to take a REALLY long time).

G.

I really like this one:

http://caltsoudas.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d40yua1

He does mention that he's working on a full scale online comic book from the series, but I am afraid if he starts he will be issued with a cease and desist order from a certain busybody in LA.

David in the above drawing looks like a male version of Edie Sedgwick during her "Youthquake" days in '65-'66. 

He blends a variety of styles--a panel that shows what appears to be Maggie Evans in suspended animation covered with cobwebs is very reminiscent of some of Erte's work.

G.

I have no idea whether this is relevant to this thread, but I thought of how ardently you (MB) keep up with news on this show last Friday when I was at Macy's--their big flagship store in Downtown Crossing, in Boston (which is where I ALWAYS imagine Liz, Carolyn and Vicki going on their shopping trips in 1967)--I was headed for housewares, and to get their you have to cut through an area that seems keyed to women's leisure wear.  Anyhow there was this huge image of a romantic couple (male/female) with the big caption 'VAMPIRE DIARIES" and a product that is being marketed in connection with the show.  I think it was some kind of cologne or perfume, but I am not sure.

The cards for these stanchions are going to be fabulous collectibles for fans of this series.  The one I saw was gorgeous.  I'm sure you've all seen them.  Just really saying that even without watching TV or paying attention (all my friends seem to watch True Blood instead), I periodically become aware of just how big this show is.

G.

Crothers took a lively interest in his work, and if you check out the earlier 1966-67 episodes you'll see more layers to Joel Crothers' portrayal of Joe Haskell  than you may expect.

One of the fans who moderates these boards has a scan of an interesting interview Crothers did after he left DS in which he reveals he wrote some scripts when he was on.  Unfortunately he never received screen credit, and the fact does not seem to be mentioned in any of the books published by the Pomegranate Press on the series--I haven't seen it mentioned, in any event.

G.