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« on: June 20, 2002, 06:37:38 PM »
Oh, I *love* that shot of Nicholas and Cassandra outside the house. I majorly groove on the psychedelic color scheme of Cassandra's nightmare butterfly peignoir (of course, I LOVE IT that she rematerialized still wearing that thing--can't you just hear all the demons snickering away down in the Inferno when she turned up in that outfit), especially as imprinted upon the weird electric blue color scheme of the house. It's really trippy!
My nomination for the worst special effect on DS has to be the use of a still of Dennis Patrick having some sort of bizarre fit which was inserted at a key moment because the actor was not available for the episode. That was one script that needed a rewrite because the work-around they came up with was simply ludicrous, even by DS standards.
Robin's right, though, that a lot of us kids who watched the show believed EVERYTHING we saw way back in the day. It didn't take much to impress us back then. My sister had nightmares for weeks because of the scene involving the spell Nicky puts on Cassandra's hand, mentioned in a post above.
Thanks to Raineypark for the fascinating post about conditions inside a typical TV production studio of the 1970s. Great stuff!
Steve