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Wow!  My first thought on the photo was shock at the three blond girls in the background.  I'm still not completely sure which one is Bella Heathcote, if she is actually in the photograph, apparently she looks extremely similar to Carolyn (perhaps an intentional plot point?)  To me, they also look the same age (i.e. both 14), when you'd think that wouldn't be the case.  Maybe one of them is the ghost of Sara?  Anyway, it's clear who Angelique is, and I think Eva Green looks great.  I expected Johnny Lee Miller to look younger, and I'm unsure if that's just what he looks like now or if he was aged to play Roger?  I think I prefer the 2004 Willie out of all the ones we've seen since the original series.  Barnabas looks great.  A lot to take in, but I don't dislike it.  

Interesting pictures!  Are you sure its Bella Heathcote, though?  The label (viewable when I move my mouse over) on the pictures says they're of Johnny Depp and Chloe Moretz.  I wonder if this scene will be played as humurous. 

It was interesting to see the modern Seaview interior and exterior--primarily the foyer and tower room.  But the program as a whole I found boring and insufficient to draw my full attention--they walk around, hear and feel things that the audience doesn't for an entire hour.  The scariest part for me was the asbestos in the basement, which made me also wonder if there might also be toxic mold spores, lead paint, or other realistic horror for this couple to deal with in trying to restore the mansion. 

I think KLS's parts in the 1897 storyline were pretty minor, she probably never qualified as a 'leading lady,' apart from 1795.  Her other parts were primarily kidnap victims and easy prey for more prominent female characters like 1970PT Angelique and 1968's Cassandra.  

I find the plot outline in the press release to be fascinating.  I like that they are going to streamline the story and give it a context fitting for the characters they are going to use.  That will at least be much better than the rush-job 1795 arc in the 1991 series, where characters were included just to stand around and remind us of the original (i.e. Millicent.)  It may also be that we have no look-alikes or 'reincarnations' except for the two characters who do cross time--Angelique and Barnabas.   I also find it interesting that the 1972 date is almost like they are picking up shortly after the original series was cancelled. 

Copyright (and that's what it is, copyright), in western societies, has always been seen as something that was granted by the government for a limited period of time, in order to provide benefits to both the creator and the public. Copyright allows the creator to realize gains from the creation. The limitation on the duration of copyright has two purposes: one, it allows the public eventually to be able to freely incorporate previously-created material into new works; second, it is incentive for the creator to create new works and not just laze around (and even his descendants to laze around!) forever because of the good fortune to have created one fabulously successful work.

I agree with you; it is the right to copy, and it is called intellectual property for a reason; because it isn't a physical house or acreage; it exists rather all over the place in perhaps millions of widely distributed copies.  Most of Shakespeare's plays would never have been written if endless copyright laws were in place during his time; as most of his works were derivative, being drawn from old literature that he brought into the medium of theatre.   The copyright for Oscar Wilde's work ran out in recent years, and because of that there have been a lot of new movies made from his plays, even lesser known ones never filmed before; I think that is a great thing.  Wilde's works, like Shakespeare, Shelley, and the Bronte's are historical cultural resources, not belonging to any one person.  And that is good, because people are free to interact with them, translate them, and reimagine them as they wish.