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Post by davygallagher on Jan 20, 2016 2:18:38 GMT
Ep 679.
One aspect of the show I dislike - and I guess its a soap thing- is characters regressing for the convenience of the plot. Liz is telling Maggie that David needs to learn there are no ssuch things as ghosts and witches etc.
We're less than 10 eps from when she emerged from a waking death after being cursed by a witch....does she just forget this stuff? Are we supposed to?
Like I say, it's no doubt a trope of the soap opera but it does jar.
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Post by davygallagher on Jan 20, 2016 9:48:14 GMT
Ep 682 The minute Stokes turned up after Thayer not being in it for a while, I thought "Must be time for a seance then". Sure enough...they're trying to contact Janet Finlay  |
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Post by coldlazarou on Jan 20, 2016 10:31:04 GMT
Y'know: it had completely escaped me that not only is this year the 50th anniversary of DS, but the 25th of Revival DS! There's a rather wonderfully pleasing symmetry to that. On my third run-through at the moment: currently stalled at episode 314. I'd forgotten how tiresome the whole 'David locked in the secret room of the Mausoleum' storyline was. The 100 episodes from 210 to 310 i covered in a couple of weeks - i galloped through them, but i've suddenly slowed down to 1 or 2 episodes a day. i think it's the sudden slowdown and the knowledge that Dr Woodard is soon going to regenerate into Not Very Good Dr Woodard. Ah, well: at least there's the satisfaction of knowing he won't be around for too long. |
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Post by bobod on Jan 20, 2016 10:44:44 GMT
Y'know: it had completely escaped me that not only is this year the 50th anniversary of DS, but the 25th of Revival DS! There's a rather wonderfully pleasing symmetry to that. And the 10th anniversary of Big Finish Dark Shadows! |
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Post by davygallagher on Jan 20, 2016 11:00:05 GMT
Y'know: it had completely escaped me that not only is this year the 50th anniversary of DS, but the 25th of Revival DS! There's a rather wonderfully pleasing symmetry to that. Last Wednesday was the 25th anniversary of the first ep Now on Episode 685 Ezra, the jeweller...wow. If Groucho Marx and Abe Vigoda had a baby, and that baby lived to be 100 years old...it would be Ezra.  |
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Post by davygallagher on Jan 21, 2016 3:31:24 GMT
Ep 691 There must have been some serious time issues here - there's SIX MINUTES of the last episode in the recap. There's not even 15 minutes of episode here! I would have been TERRIFIED when Quentin, David and Amy laugh evily. Spooky stuff. |
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Post by davygallagher on Jan 21, 2016 3:33:11 GMT
Ep 692 We've got a cameo from Thing from The Addams Family  |
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Post by Hieronymus on Jan 21, 2016 5:42:53 GMT
Ep 65
What went wrong for this episode? Everyone (except Alexandra Moltke) was flubbing lines over and over throughout, and half the time they were staring off camera as if they were reading cue cards or a teleprompter. I've accepted the occasional flub in the series, but for this episode. . . wow.
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Post by davygallagher on Jan 21, 2016 5:52:24 GMT
Ep 699 This has a CRACKER of a line prompt. The camera stays on Grayson who has clearly forgotten her line or even forgotten its her turn to speak. Cue Frid, offscreen muttering: "We should be...have...eexpected something..like..this". She realises its her turn, looks directly at what I imagine are he cue cards and goes "Oh, we should have expected something like this". She seems really quite angry at herself for flubbing so badly. The "oh" she lets out seems to be a genuine "Oops, my bad" haha! |
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Post by gljohnson17 on Jan 21, 2016 5:59:42 GMT
So. A challenge to Big Finish.
In the OS we had Original Time. Altered time. And parallel time
Phyllis Wick was in Original Time and Josette was betrothed to Jeremiah who was building The Big House.
Want to give a witch story.. Angelique vs Phyllis and Trask?
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Post by davygallagher on Jan 21, 2016 6:33:57 GMT
701 I'm in 1897! Yay! And Julia and Stokes are gypsies with accents somewhere between Mexico and Romania! I'm going to enjoy this!! |
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Post by davygallagher on Jan 21, 2016 6:54:41 GMT
I love the symmetry of a Thayer David character AGAIN being the one to be involved with Barnabas' coffin. Nice symmetry with Ben in 1795. Also very reminiscent of Jason Maguire and Willie thinking that the coffin was where the Collins jewels were. In fact, there's also the fact that this is the second Grayson Hall flashback character to use tarot, after The Countess. Lots of nice callbacks here. David Selby must have been bloody glad to get some lines after 2 months of "stand there, look eerie" I think Grayson is having a ball with this role!  |
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Post by Rob Morris on Jan 21, 2016 8:13:48 GMT
I believe she did say it was her favourite role on the show, although she's also great as "Hoffman" in Parallel Time.
Magda, however, is a glorious creation.
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Post by davygallagher on Jan 21, 2016 8:28:51 GMT
I believe she did say it was her favourite role on the show, although she's also great as "Hoffman" in Parallel Time. Magda, however, is a glorious creation. Her glory is matched only by Louis Edmond's moustache They must have loved getting to play various roles like these.  |
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Post by davygallagher on Jan 21, 2016 9:29:54 GMT
Humbert's back! And he's looking like Roger Delgado! Delighted, one of the best actors in the show. Download Attachment |
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Post by davygallagher on Jan 21, 2016 19:36:59 GMT
Oh my....Angelique is back! YAY |
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Post by davygallagher on Jan 21, 2016 21:22:46 GMT
714 I love that Joan Bennett is getting a more bitchy character this time after pretty much playing Liz even when she was Naomi. She's enjoying this too. There was a line when Quentin remembered them playing together as kids - Joan Bennett must have 30 years David Selby |
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Post by davygallagher on Jan 21, 2016 23:50:31 GMT
719 Marie Wallace as poor Jenny Collins...her dishevelled and crazy look is actually how Helena Bonham Carter spent most of the last 20 years looking. |
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Post by Trace on Jan 22, 2016 2:21:07 GMT
Oh you've got some wonderful characters coming up. Nancy Barrett is brilliant in 1897...well, she's always brilliant.
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Post by davygallagher on Jan 22, 2016 2:34:56 GMT
Oh you've got some wonderful characters coming up. Nancy Barrett is brilliant in 1897...well, she's always brilliant. I can believe it - Trask is here:) This must have been after Jerry had the Woody Allen play and made quite a name. I bet his fees went up! I've actually found 1897 quite scary and spooky in a way I haven't done with the show since Nicholas Blair's days. Quentin's head superimposed with his own skull? Eek! The pace right now is frenetic. It's a new major sub-plot very few episodes. Though I'm missing Edward shouting about "THE SECRET...YOU MUST TELL ME THE SECRET!" or "THE WILL, YOU MUST GIVE ME THE WILL!" |
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