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Post by david on Oct 26, 2015 21:41:54 GMT
Hope that ankle gets better soon, David. Hang in there with the show if you can... Humberto Astredo and Thayer David both add a lot to Adam's story IMHO, and I think you're about to another important actor debut. (In a way, it will be the very first inkling of 1897 already). Thanks I love Thayer. Along with Louis Edmonds he's my favourite thing on the show. Well, along with the wonderfulness that was the tragically short lived Bathia Mapes!
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Post by david on Oct 27, 2015 19:16:33 GMT
I got chills when Roger showed Nicolas Blair to his new house by the sea...it took a few moments till I clicked - HOUSE BY THE SEA. I'm loving how much more I'm appreciating BF's Dark Shadows because of this rewatch. Loving Nicolas Blair. If anyone has seen Heaven Can Wait from the 40s, Blair reminds me of the way Laird Cregar played Old Pitch Adam's a lot better now he's literate but can the show go 30 eps without a kidnapping or a memory wipe? And Harry Johnson is terribly acted. Just awful.
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Post by Trace on Oct 29, 2015 0:42:05 GMT
Thank you!!! Isn't he the worst thing about Dark Shadows? cringe-worthy!!
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Post by barnabaslives on Oct 29, 2015 9:53:36 GMT
Well, I'm not sure... he's either really awful or he's really, really good to make everyone hate his low-life characters so much. His other character on the show actually made me cheer for firearms, which is quite an achievement in itself. :-)
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Post by sexbombsimon on Oct 29, 2015 16:04:42 GMT
I got chills when Roger showed Nicolas Blair to his new house by the sea...it took a few moments till I clicked - HOUSE BY THE SEA. I'm loving how much more I'm appreciating BF's Dark Shadows because of this rewatch. Loving Nicolas Blair. If anyone has seen Heaven Can Wait from the 40s, Blair reminds me of the way Laird Cregar played Old Pitch Adam's a lot better now he's literate but can the show go 30 eps without a kidnapping or a memory wipe? And Harry Johnson is terribly acted. Just awful. Re The house by the sea. I never imagined it to look like that having heard the play first. I thought it was a little bit like a shack or a cabin, but then i Suppose that it would have been called the Cabin by the Sea. So have just reached 702 and we have gone back in time and my God the gypsy make-up is just tanning solution. Hilarious. Re Adam, how did Carolyn fall for him? She like scars or something
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Post by david on Oct 30, 2015 0:09:06 GMT
Were the writers told they could say "kill" or "killed" becuase I swear all I ever har is "If we do not do what Adam wants...he will DESTROY Vicki" or "Barnabas! Your experiment is gonna destroy Maggie!". It's "destroy" this and "destroy" that I'm also a bit tired of the word "lifeforce" I'm on 593 now. I'm enjoying Barnabas being more vulnerable but it seems like the writers have just given up on finding anything for Roger or the Professor recently and poor Liz...I thought she was coming back but she's locked up again Now I think of it....I've not seen David in aaaages! Vicky is very much taking a back seat to Maggie these days too. Even Blair and Angelique have been absent for about 10 eps despite being quite central to this whole Adam arc.
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Post by david on Oct 30, 2015 0:12:37 GMT
Thank you!!! Isn't he the worst thing about Dark Shadows? cringe-worthy!! They all flub occasionally but I dont think Harry (or his 1795 counterpart Vicky shot) has delivered a single line well yet. They're either messed up or he fails to project his voice well enough for the microphone. It's really, really bad stuff. To think he's suppoed to be this tough, roguish badass...Mrs Johnson should be eating this idiot for breakfast! I almost wonder if he was supposed to get a bigger part - they were setting him as a Willie Loomis like Igor-figure - but after seeing his acting at length, Dan Curtis just said.."I think we'll just get John Karlen back"
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Post by david on Oct 30, 2015 2:23:21 GMT
It's Danielle Roget!!!
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Post by david on Nov 2, 2015 1:18:51 GMT
On 615 now.
This Liz-fear of death thing has been cooking for SO long it's not real. Adam and Eve seem to be out of the picture for the moment as we're getting the Joe trying to kill Barnabas thing instead. At least it's giving Mrs Johnson - such a great wee character - more scenes than she's had since her 1795 version.
It's a very, very convoluted arc the Adam and Eve one and it gets dropped for subplots so often that it seems much longer than it is. I'm looking forward to it ending as it's got little left to do now. It's been going through the motions for a good 30 es. I know the Quentin stuff isn't far off now and that's what I'm really looking forward to.
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Post by Hieronymus on Nov 2, 2015 2:57:55 GMT
I'm neither reading nor following this thread, but I have started watching the original series. Not very far along though.
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Post by david on Nov 2, 2015 3:52:10 GMT
Julia is badass in Ep 619 - I love it!
"No matter how dangerous it is *looks to camera and deepens her voice* I've got to have a showdown with Nicholas Blair"
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Post by david on Nov 2, 2015 17:37:03 GMT
Yay - back to 1795! It means I can re-live the wonderfulness that is Louis Edmonds as Joshua Collins
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Post by david on Nov 3, 2015 2:57:02 GMT
Holy Hand Grenade! 639!!! Amy Jennings is here...she's a wee lassie and she's played by Violet Beuregard from Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory! So....Violet Beauregard marries Adric and they're parents to the kid from Wizards V Alients....MIND BLOWN.
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Post by david on Nov 3, 2015 3:41:31 GMT
640. Carolyn has reappeared after being awol for ages. She's at the Blue Whale with Chris Jennings and we've got some of the classic BW jukbox music playing How the barkeep doesn't go mental having to hear the same 3 or 4 tunes on loop every day for years is beyond me! Now that Adam, Eve and Nicholas are out the way (and Peter...though I get the feeling not for long) it's good to have a clean slate again. The Adam stuff got so convoluted it was a real chore. If not for the WONDERFUL Nicolas Blair and the really charming double act of Barnabas and Julia I would have been struggling to watch it, honestly. BF have recast Barnabas...I wish they would do the same with Julia. Surely if you can recast THE most iconic character, anyone should be fair game? It would be like BF saying "Yeah, we've recast The Third Doctor but we wouldn't dare do it with Barbara Wright" I guess that the Barnabas recast was done years before Joe et al took over the range though so their feelings on recasts are clearly different to Stuart Manning and co. Is that the case? I respect the decision but there's so much potential to do stories with Stokes, Roger, Laura, Liz, Vicki...
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Post by Trace on Nov 3, 2015 4:39:27 GMT
Their stance on recasts has remained pretty much the same...they will do it for anyone IF and only if they can explain it with a plot point (i.e. a body switch or possession) OR if there is a plausible reason for the person's voice to have changed (i.e., a child character is now an adult).
I don't like the stance, but there it is! :-)
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Post by david on Nov 3, 2015 4:50:32 GMT
Their stance on recasts has remained pretty much the same...they will do it for anyone IF and only if they can explain it with a plot point (i.e. a body switch or possession) OR if there is a plausible reason for the person's voice to have changed (i.e., a child character is now an adult). I don't like the stance, but there it is! :-) Thanks! What's the Barnabas plot point that makes it OK for BF to justify a recast? I've not heard even half the stories so I don't know if there's something like those events that happen to him? I don't really get the BF stance, frankly particularly with Dark Shadows. The show recast plenty of times! Sam Evans, Matthew Morgan, Vicky Winters, Burke Devlin, Willie Loomis, Adam...plenty more and those are just on the eps I'm up to in the 600s.
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Post by sexbombsimon on Nov 4, 2015 23:25:01 GMT
So just got to 730 and the Pheonix has risen from the ashes ... Again!
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Post by barnabaslives on Nov 5, 2015 11:47:03 GMT
In the Full Cast dramas, Barnabas gets a new body in the form of actor Andy Coleman (Andrew Collins), so that there is a explanation integrated into the story for why he sounds different than the television series or The Night Whispers. (Then someone hollers "Barnabas Lives!" Music to my ears, that... and I had no idea yet it was actually in the audios when I picked it as a screen name. Imagine my delight when I heard that). :-) (Don't know why I can't make a quote work properly here...) Yes, Louis Edmonds is blusterously brilliant as Joshua... and there were some intense scenes between him and Barnabas, I was really bowled over by that in the 1795 storyline.
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Post by bobod on Nov 6, 2015 16:15:12 GMT
David, seriously, you are over the hard part, and really getting onto the good stuff. I really miss the old pre-Barnabas days. That and Barnabas-Julia-Dave Woodard hs been my favourite stuff. I've just had Eve turn up, I get the impression this isn't regarded as a good period. It's certainly stopped being about anything.
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Post by bobod on Nov 6, 2015 16:17:51 GMT
I really, really want to splurge and buy the coffin box set with the whole damn thing. I've just done that and am waiting on it arriving. It was more than I normally would shell out at once but I could kind of justify it as due to a sale I got more money off it than I actually spent on it.
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