I know this is whacked, but whenever I play the scene of Julia lighting her cigarette from the candelabrum (while Barn GLARES at her) I can't help thinking of a movie that exists in my very own warped imagination--JULIA, SHE-WOLF OF COLLINSPORT.

Truly priceless footage...

G.

KLS described the false fingernail fang incident in the original edition of her first book, My Scrapbook Memories.  There's a grand series of photographs taken by Ben Martin the day she had to be made up as "vampire Josette."

I also really loved the second version of vampire Josette (I think she appeared in the 1796 flashback aired between the end of 1897 and the start-up of Leviathans in November of '69?).  She had a glam edge to her, as I recall...

G.

Mystic Night is *very* copacetic with IE!  And I like the colors MUCH better than the other one.

I may have the chance to try out the Lightning theme on Sun. on a machine equipped with Firefox.

Thanks MB for working so patiently on this!  by now I'm afraid I would have thrown my hands up over all of it.

cheers, Gothick

MB, dahling, you are TOO funny.

The Jeremy creature was on some "reality" TV show (we really need a new word to convey just what these programs present--it's nothing like the form of "reality" I know!).  There were some other washed-up "celebrities" in attendance as well; I think that Tammy Faye Bakker and a hideously bloated and aged Erik Estrada were among them.

G.

I've read fanfic that cast medical-school Julia and Dave as lovers, but re-watching quite a bit of their storyline last year, I don't feel that it really adds up in how their story was played in Canon.  I think Julia may have intimidated Dave a bit just because she was so brilliant.  She was also extremely caustic and short-tempered (except for when she put on the Niceness Wig when she was trying to get something out of somebody, such as Liz).  I'm talking now about the original Julia characterization.

I do think that Dave's death was a horrible turning-point for Julia... in the ORIGINAL '67 storyline.  "You no longer have any friends, Julia," rang hideously true for her.  I don't think we need to presume a former romantic attachment between them to explicate the horror she feels at her implication in Dave's death.  I think it was a major wake-up call for her... the logical conclusion to it was when she informed the family that everything David had said was TRUE.

Julia's character is written very inconsistently during the weeks leading up to 1795 but I'm usually so dazzled by the brilliance of Grayson's thesping that I suspend disbelief.  Her behavior on the two days of Barn's aging, for example, is very contradictory.  But then, as some wag of the 18th century once wrote, "la donna e mobile" (really explains nothing but is a very pretty conceit).

cheers, G.

That's OK, everything that goes into my mouth is public property.

Erm, I mean, uh... oh, NEVER MIND.

Have you ever seen Nancy Barrett''s cabaret show?  She sometimes salutes the original 1966 Carolyn characterization with a renditon of "Girls just wanna have fun."  It's so cute.

cheers, G.

MSC, that's one of my all-time favorite scenes in all of DS... when Carolyn and Julia have their bitchy cat-and-mouse game in the foyer of Collinwood.  I love how Carolyn snidely twits Julia for failing to dress for dinner and tells her, "if you wish to live with us, you must conduct yourself according to our standards" or something along those lines--it's priceless!  And one of the most Addams-Family moments on DS.

I did think it was a bit less than credible when the writers had Carolyn show some compassion in one of those episodes for what Julia was going through, in a scene with Barnabas.  I thought that given how Vampire Slave Carolyn's character had been established, she would have gloated over every second of Julia's degringolade.

I can't make myself choose one of the Carolyns listed here.  I adore the original spoiled heiress minx of 1966, but the PT 1970 Carolyn gets some of Nancy Barrett's very best scenes in the entire series.  I love it when she drunkenly runs on about knowing ALL the secrets.  And there's a very poignant moment where reflects that if she'd joined Will in his drinking, perhaps things would have ended more happily between them.  The writing seems much more adult and sophisticated in some of those scenes than in the usual tone set for the series.

Well, I've blathered on long enough about how fabulous Nancy Barrett's evolutionary Carolyn was.  Grayson Hall stated more than once that she thought Nancy was the best actress in the entire cast, bar none; this thread offers many reasons why.

G.

Congratulations!

I hate to be the Cracked Crab (but you know I secretly revel in the role) but I will have to force myself to chivvy out the intricately concealed menus for changing the colors back to the crimson and black.  Right now I feel as if I really have been exiled to the Lilac Ward at Wyndcliffe.    Either that or a strange spacewarp on the Starfleet Academy fansite.

I also need to find the "Destroy All Smilies Now!" command.  You did promise that I would be able to do that...

G.