Oh my...who knew what lengths Dynamite would go to capitalize on Dark Shadows revived fame. 

I really hate seeing Willie #1; he makes the entire show an amateur, high school play sort of vibe.  And I resent that we're saturated with his presence instead of having a meaningful followup to the big conclusion of the manslaughter storyline.  Now we've seen Barnabas for the first time.  Is that it, then?  Is that all we get after 200 episodes?  It really is painful to watch Willie #1...

Oh my, it's the classic look of Christopher Lee as Dracula.  Nothing to do with Barnabas...

Q5:  In 1897, it's strongly implied that she had no physical form and needed Nora to bring her back to the land of the living.   So at least in that case, she was in limbo for a time, though that might have just been the Egyptian Gods.   I think that, generally, she reverts to being about twenty years of age and goes off to start a new life cycle soon after burning (and attempting to burn any children she might have.) 

Q11: In my opinion, it was the events which happened when Laura and Quentin were in Egypt a year or so before 1897 that virtually enslaved Laura to the Egyptian Gods for that era; but she later broke free and became independant again by 1966. 

Personally, I think that Jamison's experiences with his mother awakened a dormant clairvoyance inside him, and his out-of-control psychic abilities created a connection with David, and then produced the dream.  The I-ching is not a concious being and certainly doesn't care about people.  But Jamison went through a traumatic supernatural experience that may have changed him. 

My favorite line from one of the reviews:  "Along the way, (the author) challenges us to think, behave and live like Barnabas."

Lol, that's perfect! Barnabas taught me that we are absolutely not responsible for anything we did in the past (whether that's one hundred years, or five minutes ago); if someone remembers what you did in the past and might use it against you, they give you no choice but to kill them.

And the later fact is the reason why Littlefield eventually came to realize the error of his ways and approached DC about bringing the show back as a series of Made-for-TV movies similar to what NBC was doing at the time with Perry Mason. But DC being DC, he told Littlefield, in what I'm pretty sure was very colorful language, that, uh, he wasn't interested.

It's a real shame that DC would turn down an oppurtunity to continue the series.  Those films could have been great.   

I think one of the biggest problems with 91 is that someone couldn't convince DC to leave 1790 out of the first season altogether, or vastly strip it down to the essentials (i.e. the love triangle between Angelique/Josette/Barnabas that led to his curse) instead of trying to cram every OS element in, even though they were all thereby rendered meaningless by the lack of context.  Less 1790 episodes could have been more.    I think the real potential for 91 lay in the present time (after the HODS storyline ended), not the flashback.  I thought the triangle between Maggie, Roger, and Laura was more interesting than any of the recycled Barnabas material. 

I would hope that they do have enough wisdom to withhold judgement untill they've actually seen the film.  One thinks of Anne Rice making a big public fuss over the casting of Tom Cruise in Interview With the Vampire, only to retract her statements after she saw the final film and how good it was.   If people actually pay attention and remember what you've said, it's easy to make a fool of yourself.

Burton's Willy Wonka was based on the original book, not the earlier film.