I don't think anyone should be rewarded too much for 'allowing' fan-fiction; it will go on in the far corners of the internet whether they want it to or not.   And yes, I do think it is greedy for billionare warner brothers to take action to stop nonprofit youtube fan-films made by a few amatuers trying to have a good time.  They and the Curtis estate already made their money, and I don't think the massive corporate profits of Hollywood need to be protected in that way.   I also don't think I'm so much in agreement with everyone else that the descendants of an author or etc. should be enabled to live off the proceeds of their ancestors work and do nothing hundreds of years later; if it is moved into the public domain, no one should be profiting off of it at all.    When you release something into the public to that extent, and indeed make your money off the 'cult' status of a fan community, it doesn't only belong to you.  I'm sure that Richard O'brien doesn't consider Rocky Horror to 'belong' to him in the sense that he needs to stop all those damned people reinacting the play at midnight showings in order to protect his property.   Copyright practice, if not law, is changing irrevocably due to the internet; people can either work with it and succeed or work against it and fail.  

That nightmare about the DS movie was absolutely hilarious...  

The actor chosen is definitely is a far departure, especailly from the sort of Willie we had in the 04 pilot (which is what I prefer.)  But I guess they are changing the character; the picture I've seen of him made me think more of Count Petofi.    Personally, I think a modernization of governess would be closer to a tutor or nanny, not waitress.  But hopefully that was an error.

I seriously doubt that is going to surface, especially after the very lackluster 'Corpse Bride.'  There was also a sequel to Burton's 'Beetlejuice' that floated around for over a decade dying a slow death (not to mention what became of the 'Catwoman' spinoff which was once Burton's project.) 

Ned Stuart definitely could have been played by someone else--watching it recently I wondered if the police would buy that he was just a random mirror image, as I seem to remember jeff clark was under suspicion of certain crimes when he departed.  They could even have put him in a wig, makeup, and funky costume, ala what was done to create Sandor and Magda in 1897; he didn't have to look exactly the same.  

There was something satisfying in RD's Tate character--[spoiler]he played well the dejected, violated, discarded 'boy' of Petofi.  [/spoiler]

Julia annoyed me in this episode--of course Barnabas can go in there and tell Roxanne that they are the same.  She is not somehow more vicous than Barnabas is--hearing Julia say that makes me wonder if she was hypnotized to lose her memories of the past--but even now Barnabas finds a way of "eating."  Imagine the story Roxanne must have--she was probably not confined to a coffin for centuries, but led a rich, full life (see Anne Rice novels for examples--I want to see flashbacks of her living in Italy in the 19th century.)  Not talking to her is the death of imagination, and we won't get to know Roxanne better by leaving her alone in a coffin in an empty room, Julia!  And I don't imagine there is really much risk of Barnabas being bitten; what could happen?  Barnabas and Roxanne could live together, share their existance and their curse.   RT Roxanne needs character development, not cliche. 

Well, Barnabas definitely killed and ruined more people's lives than Nicholas ever did, and still worse he was a total hypocrite about it.  Nicholas prefered to use charm to get what he wanted, while even after an apparent cure, Barnabas still went on about having to kill this or that person.   There is also his endless courtship of young women when he knew for a fact they would die if they fell in love with him.   I'm sure if Viki knew what Barnabas had done to Maggie, she would change her mind.

That's a new one on me, too ... I love all of Tennessee Williams's work, including The Glass Menagerie, but this is going to take some thought ... I don't really see any immediate correspondences between DS characters and Tom, who is aching to be free of his family; Amanda, the faded belle mother harking back to a more glorious past (not obviously Liz), the inhibited and shy Laura (certainly not Carolyn), nor the gentleman caller ...

Yeah, there isn't a clear adaptation; also because the characters in the play were living in poverty, and that is what drove a great deal of the story.  Perhaps they meant Melanie in 1840 PT, who [spoiler]is a mentally ill recluse and has a gentleman caller, is really the lovechild of aged, impoverished widow Josette, who has a sailor son Bramwell that hates a lot of his family?[/spoiler] But still, unless Melanie had a glass menagerie, it isn't as obvious as DS renditions of Turn Of The Screw or Rebecca.

I think the real root of Jenny's condition goes back to her lonely, traumatic childhood living in desperate, discriminatory squallor among her people.  The events at Collinwood were merely what pushed her over--while with a stronger foundation in her early life, she would have been able to handle what happened.