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Current Talk '07 II / Re: Newbie with some storyline questions - anyone care to help?
« on: September 04, 2007, 07:37:07 PM »
This is in response to the original post from testokes:
Since you say you're new, you may not be aware that *a lot* of how the Dark Shadows storylines evolved (or failed to evolve) was directly dictated by Dan Curtis. There's an interview with Sam Hall from the 1980s that is cited in a lot of the books available on the history where Sam recalls saying to Dan more than once, "Dan, please, can we NOT do x, y or z" and Dan would respond: "Are you writing the show or not? If you don't want to do it, I can get other people to write this show, you know!" Odd though it may seem today, Adam apparently generated lots of positive fan mail from the kids who had become a big chunk of the show's audience back in 1968. I remember reading about this at the time and thinking it odd although I was only ten years old myself in '68.
According to Robert Rodan's reminscences out at the LA Festivals, Adam's abrupt departure from the show occurred when the actor requested a raise. (The same thing happened to Lisa Richards, too.)
I still think the 1968 storyline with Adam, Cassandra, Nicholas, the Dream Curse and Eve included some of the best moments from the show. I won't bother to do a laundry-list here because I've already done so in MANY other threads that bash this period of the show's history. I do find it interesting that people who detest this period of the show are more than willing to cheerfully ignore the longueurs and imbecilities of other periods in the series. As I have said before, I regard Dark Shadows as a patchwork of shining moments and lacklustre misfires--sometimes this was the case even within a specific episode!
G.
Since you say you're new, you may not be aware that *a lot* of how the Dark Shadows storylines evolved (or failed to evolve) was directly dictated by Dan Curtis. There's an interview with Sam Hall from the 1980s that is cited in a lot of the books available on the history where Sam recalls saying to Dan more than once, "Dan, please, can we NOT do x, y or z" and Dan would respond: "Are you writing the show or not? If you don't want to do it, I can get other people to write this show, you know!" Odd though it may seem today, Adam apparently generated lots of positive fan mail from the kids who had become a big chunk of the show's audience back in 1968. I remember reading about this at the time and thinking it odd although I was only ten years old myself in '68.
According to Robert Rodan's reminscences out at the LA Festivals, Adam's abrupt departure from the show occurred when the actor requested a raise. (The same thing happened to Lisa Richards, too.)
I still think the 1968 storyline with Adam, Cassandra, Nicholas, the Dream Curse and Eve included some of the best moments from the show. I won't bother to do a laundry-list here because I've already done so in MANY other threads that bash this period of the show's history. I do find it interesting that people who detest this period of the show are more than willing to cheerfully ignore the longueurs and imbecilities of other periods in the series. As I have said before, I regard Dark Shadows as a patchwork of shining moments and lacklustre misfires--sometimes this was the case even within a specific episode!
G.
