Hey John, Happy Birthday!  May your day be just as FABULOUS as you are!

cheers!  Steve

I saw episode one.  It was not really my cup of tea.

G.

These are all fabulous, and how great to have a shot of Oberon!  I liked him so much better than the replacement Leviathan (can't remember his name) from that one episode with Marsha Mason.

The one of John Karlen against the Tarot card stained glass window is so gorgeous, I wonder whether Janet the Wicked could somehow send a copy of it to John Karlen himself?

When I loaned the DVD of Daughters of Darkness to a friend, I got an email a day or two later exuberantly informing me that Karlen should have had a career as a major Seventies pornstar!  I *think* Johnny would have taken that as a compliment...

G.

Ravishing!

G.

Glorioski, Taeylor!  Is this thread Diva Central, or what?

I'm SWOONING, Dahling, from Diva Overload!  Utterly, consummately magnificent!

G.

I thought the little girl who played Sarah was really, exceptionally good.  She projected the quality I felt was needed in the character just beautifully.

I only ever saw this episode on VHS once in the mid Nineties, and remember very little of it.  I remember thinking the whole business with Professor Woodard was truly beyond Velveeta on the cheese scale.  And, sadly, a harbinger of things to come in this series.

G.

I know at one point in ca. 1968 it showed up with its skullbones scotch-taped together.  I thought that was some sort of ultimate benchmark of Dark Shadows--like Barnabas delaying the start of a take to complain that his coffin was too short.  Priceless.

G.

I read what Nelson Collins wrote and thought he gave a very fair review of the episode.  I absolutely agree about the sloppy writing.  The whole thing with Woodard was handled so shoddily, and in the next episode, it all slithers into gratuitous, embarrassing schlock.  I really wonder whether the influence of the network suits to have more typical Eighties style horror elements inserted into the production was already making itself felt at this point. 

I loved Barbara Steele's scenes, as mentioned previously, but Nelson has a really good point about our beloved Dr Hoffman's  dodgy lab methods.

I can't get over Julia's manicure.  Every time I see those nails, I wish there had been a sequel to the Natassja Kinski Cat People with Steele as an older Cat Matron, perhaps similar to Elizabeth Russell's character in the original Cat People from the 1940s.  Meeee-OWWW!

Watching it again last year, I confess I was intrigued by Ely Pouget's performance as Maggie.  I thought that character needed to be more fleshed out and Pouget's energy made me want to see more.  Why on Earth was she banging Roger?  Was this ever explained?  Forgive me if I'm not sticking close enough to the actual action of this specific segment here.

Now where's that shot of Joe Haskell's bared butt cheeks? 

Mournfully, Gothique