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« on: October 19, 2006, 04:04:58 PM »
I do urge fans who haven't seen them to check out the original Laura Collins storyline shows from Dec. 1966-March 1967 (and it then segues very neatly into the introduction of Barnabas). There's such an eerie quality to those shows. I think if I had seen the part as a child where Liz disturbs Laura while she's casting one of her spells at the fire and we see a dramatic, snap close-up of Laura's death-glare (it showed up here once as a floatie! now THAT was frightening), I would have had horrible nightmares.
In many ways, Laura's story was a dress rehearsal for how they handled both the original Barnabas storyline, and Cassandra's story in the following year. Cassandra even wound up wearing one of Laura's old dresses!
Even before Laura, though, DS was anything BUT another soap opera. The only way I could prove this is to upload some episodes from Days of our lives from 1966 to show you. From the beginning, DS was something very special. So moody and atmospheric. I really love the early months of 1966 but it's more character based and the spook moments are very judiciously paced. (I'm watching an English series from 1979, Sapphire and Steel, right now, and there's this story set in a haunted railway station that really reminds me of the 1966 DS in how it is paced and performed.)
G.