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Post by sexbombsimon on Dec 17, 2015 15:02:37 GMT
Glad you're enjoying Paz, and welcome to the discussion. Keep us updates on your quest through Dark Shadows Spoilers are permitted so spill whatever you like here
I'm currently on episode 953. Jeb Hawkins is an irritating Man-child. Carolyns at it again, falling in love with the biggest freak in the room. Julia Hoffman is my new favourite person (and has been since she showed up). Kinda miss Magda, The Leviathans are so boring. Would somebody just please put a lock on the Collinswood Door, that way poeple who are out to get you CAN'T GET IN YOUR DOOR!!! Poor Barnabas is cursed again. Angelique is a Real Housewife of Collinsport, Josette is NOT a Leviathan prisoner (Barnabas you should have checked that one out!). Mad, crazyness but sheer joy every second. I am finding myself playing the Looking for the actor reading the tele-prompt alot. But Man I am too hooked for words. I watch about 4-6 eps a day. Hooked. Shamefully hooked
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Post by Deleted on Dec 19, 2015 13:46:59 GMT
Thank you! I'm enjoying the kinship between Barnabas and Jennings - both victims of a curse they cannot control. I've read that actor Don Briscoe left the show in less than ideal circumstances and didn't have a very good time for a while afterwards, which is very sad.
Regarding the series, my favourite character would have to be Roger Collins. The sardonic old grouch is actually made very watchable by Louis Edmond's arch performance. It's a shame he isn't in it more.
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Post by gljohnson17 on Dec 25, 2015 22:24:06 GMT
Thanks to Amazon dropping the price and a good buddy.... I am the Proud owner of the complete set!
Merry Christmas to me. Hahaha
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Post by sexbombsimon on Dec 30, 2015 11:44:39 GMT
So I need some re-assurance. Parralel time is a little bit boring and slow, and suffering from most of the "main" cast out filming the first movie. Please tell me it picks up. Just hit 1000 and need to know that this is not the slipping slope of a slow death? I mean Angelique / Alexis is alway good but Quentin is just blah and its all just a bit more soap and no bite, and Yeager is an as$. Someone reassure me. Many thanks
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Post by barnabaslives on Dec 30, 2015 17:56:12 GMT
Well, yeah, Yeager is abominable, but I think an awful lot of Cyrus and his assistant. Things will hopefully perk up for you near the end of that arc if not sooner (although it probably does drag in the middle a bit) and there's an interesting new character on the horizon who we still have yet to meet in an audio. Then there's another very worthwhile epic to come, in which Jim Storm and others are just fantastic and the show makes a welcome gesture or two to keep David Selby's character from being just another handsome face hopefully.
Maybe just my opinion, but even when there's probably a bit of noticeable retreading of an earlier epic, I don't think the show really loses it until the very last story that starts about episode 1200, and maybe only because it just seems to go out with an apparent attempt to get more in touch with its original soap opera intentions while trying to break the mold a bit on Frid's and Parker's characters. Even that is worth the price of admission and even then the show doesn't completely give up being spooky by a long shot.
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Post by Rob Morris on Jan 2, 2016 10:37:13 GMT
Up to episode 1021 here and thats deep in Parallel Time which I'm enjoying enormously.
I know that there's a general feeling that post-1897 it goes downhill a bit but I'm not finding that at all. I even enjoyed the Leviathan storyline (once they sorted out the Barnabas vs Julia thing).
In PT you can tell Grayson Hall's having a blast playing Mrs Danvers.
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Post by Trace on Jan 3, 2016 1:54:12 GMT
Up to episode 1021 here and thats deep in Parallel Time which I'm enjoying enormously. I know that there's a general feeling that post-1897 it goes downhill a bit but I'm not finding that at all. I even enjoyed the Leviathan storyline (once they sorted out the Barnabas vs Julia thing). In PT you can tell Grayson Hall's having a blast playing Mrs Danvers. Cheers to that, Rob! I loved the post 1897 stories--even the final one--so I can't agree with the wideheld opinion that the stories went downhill. I think they were all thoroughly watchable and quite entertaining--plus, the sets and costuming were among some of the best of the entire run!
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Post by gljohnson17 on Jan 3, 2016 4:51:28 GMT
Watching episode 411 as I type... Barnabas has awoken!
I am going find a good stopping point and then jump to the end of the 1795 time line since I have seen that two or three times now.
I want to get to the other, older stories... even the Dream Curse... haha. And I too enjoyed the Leviathan and later episodes.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2016 19:54:26 GMT
After taking a month or two off, I'm back on DS with ep 671 which so far has featured the worst Werewolf transformations I've seen on screen
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Post by gregm on Jan 4, 2016 23:45:26 GMT
I recently finished a complete watch-through. It'll be a while before I do it again, but I will. The whole thing is worthwhile, don't listen to people commenting about the early episodes of the last several months - they are different and may be not what you are expecting, but since when has that been such a great criterion for choosing what you watch?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2016 0:00:28 GMT
I agree - the early stuff is wonderful in places. I miss having Burke #1 as the focus quite a bit and also miss having Roger, evil David and the Collins family being firmly the focus of the story.
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Post by Trace on Jan 5, 2016 1:56:09 GMT
I recently finished a complete watch-through. It'll be a while before I do it again, but I will. The whole thing is worthwhile, don't listen to people commenting about the early episodes of the last several months - they are different and may be not what you are expecting, but since when has that been such a great criterion for choosing what you watch? The best (and most concise) argument that I have seen for the early pre-Barnabas stuff, and the final storylines! I wholeheartedly agree. Don't skip them--they're excellent, and essential to the complete experience.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2016 6:00:41 GMT
I'm a bit biased as 1991 was my intro to Dark Shadows. I can see why it's not beloved but I really like some elements - Ben Cross in particular. And JGL does the demon David shtick well. It's just amazing how they condense hundreds and hundreds of episodes into a dozen. Despite my bias - having seen both, I'd go with the 60s series easily. It's just so immersive. I was off work injured when I started last year and would sit and watch ep after ep, clocking up 20 a day at least. It almost consumed me with its dream curse My life is far, far richer for it.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2016 17:22:56 GMT
Episode 680 today for me, and David is behaving very badly towards Maggie, who is showing herself to be a very ineffective disciplinarian. David's behaviour verges from precocious to genuinely unsettling. I've always thought that David Henessy is a tremendous actor, but he's actually surpassing himself with this material.
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Post by sexbombsimon on Jan 5, 2016 23:56:29 GMT
Episode 1018 for me. Thank God the full cast are back. Never missed Barnabas so much
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2016 10:22:53 GMT
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Post by gljohnson17 on Jan 16, 2016 20:16:21 GMT
Just starting the Adam storyline where Vickie is back from 1795. Ep 470 just completed.
And oh my.... Addison Powell. I knew he was not well received by the rest of the group... but in my first watchthru in 2014 (after being able to see the original 1966 - 71 series) I didn't really pay much attention since I was just happy seeing it all again....
But now... woh. Loved Dr Eric Lang but don't know how.. it's just. So like if. I. You. I mean I am. Trying. Too. Er.. hard. Hahaha
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Post by Rob Morris on Jan 17, 2016 14:33:12 GMT
He's great fun to watch, but definitely for all the wrong reasons.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2016 0:58:35 GMT
Ep 676 Wow...Donna was really just bought it to get bumped off very, very quickly wasn't she? I'm glad Barnabas is bac and inolved heavily. He's been sorely missing for a wee while. We really are in "pure" Dark Shadows here, aren't we? The vampire is using the werewolf while the creepy kid is talking to the ghost
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2016 1:33:50 GMT
It's the 25th anniversary so why not? I think there's plenty to like and if nothing else, it's fun to see how arc that took hundreds of episodes are done in 13.It's also fun to watch the changes - Willie is Mrs Johnson's nephew, Joe Haskell isn't Nathan in the past but he's Peter Bradford, Roger being Trask...it's like a Dark Shadows jigsaw where the parts have been put together wrong! If you've got the videos, certainly watch those rather than the DVDs. No cropping or ration issues, the extended cuts are in place and the day-for-night filter is present. All major problem with the DVDs. Julia will tell Barnabas the sunlight will kill him and all I can think is "He was walking round in daylight with no problems about 10 times so far!" I really like Ben Cross as Barnabas and Jim Fyfe as Willie finds a way to be really creepy and slimy as Willlie without copying John Karlen. Like I say I'm probably too kind on the series as it was "my" Dark Shadows for years before I heard any BF or saw the 60s show.
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