Oh, wow! Though I have to say, I can't imagine I'd ever get around to reading those books. Maybe one or two, but not the whole series.
I'm up to episode 375 now. David and Hallie are investigating the mysterious playroom. There's a lunar eclipse, which promises the first of PT Carolyn's portents of doom (the night of the sun and the moon). Julia, Barnabas, and Quentin seemed aligned that trouble is coming, but Elizabeth paid for several months of horoscopes from Sebastian Shaw (who looks just like Jeb) and she's anticipating smooth sailing. Daphne is starting to haunt the kids.
In other news, I've gone from watching zero soap operas a few years ago to now I'm watching three...each with something a little extra. Kathy & I have started watching SOAP, the comedy soap opera from the 70s, and with the death of David Lynch I've started a Twin Peaks rewatch (which, in maybe a half-dozen episodes or so, will probably venture into new territory for me -- I can't remember how soon I dropped off after the revelation of Laura Palmer's killer, but I know I never saw the end of season 2, thanks to its always-shifting timeslot.)
So I'm watching soap + monsters, soap + comedy, and soap + surrealism.
Shortly after Tracy and I were married (and watching Dark Shadows together for the first time) we decided to collect all of Dan "Marilyn" Ross's Dark Shadows paperbacks after finding one in a used bookstore (these 32 plus the House of Dark Shadows movie adaptation). We eventually completed the set, almost entirely through online purchases. (The later ones become increasingly difficult to find due to smaller print runs.) I read the first six or seven or so, then petered out. When Hermes Press started reissuing the entire series in larger-than-paperback trade size, I preordered them, but started reading the ones I already had, picking up where I left off. My plan had been to continue reading my originals until the reissues caught up to me (which I assumed would happen sooner or later), then switch over. I forget at what point they did, but I continued reading until I petered out again. (I've been stuck at #19 for a while now.) I'll pick them up again one of these days.
I do now have two complete sets, one original, one reissue. I'd be willing to part with the originals (except the House adaptation), but I'd want to sell them as a set. They present a kind of "alternate history" (not necessarily consistant) of the Collins family, tending to avoid the areas hit by the TV show (1795, 1840, 1897). I was taking copious notes my second time through in order to compile a "Collins Family History," but as I said, I still haven't gotten through them all. If you are still reading Danny Horn's Dark Shadows Every Day blog you have no doubt read one or two of his reviews, which are honestly more entertaining than the books (I hesiate to call them "novels") themselves.
We love SOAP. SOAP was the last TV show I watched before I went cold turkey on television for a month or so. SOAP was one of the the few things (in retrospect) my former girlfriend and I had in common, and I was pleased to discover that Tracy likes it, too. (We have it on Columbia House VHS.) I didn't watch Twin Peaks when it was first run, but that's another series Tracy and I watched together for the first time after we were married. We've been thinking about re-watching it, too, since David Lynch's death. Lost, too.
I'm going to assume you mean 1075. Here are a couple of things I noted since we left off. Barnabas and Julie are now back in the present. It was August 3 (show time) when they left parallel time, and August 3 when they returned from the future, where they spent two weeks. Quentin seems to present this as "proof" that they did not, in fact, travel to the future at all. Can it be that he does not understand how time travel works? This was before his time on the show, but Victoria Winters did spend 19 weeks in 1795 "between two ticks of the clock." Anyway, they returned from the future with six random phrases ("the night of the sun and the moon… the night Rose Cottage was destroyed… the unfinished horoscope… the night I sang my song… the picnic… the murder") which they continue to refer to as "clues." They're not that. Stokes refers to them as "riddles," but they're not that, either. I do like "portents of doom," though. Speaking of Stokes, it was said in 1995 that Collinwood was destroyed in 1970 while Stokes was in Europe, but back in the present, Stokes is not in Europe and has no plans to go, so what's up with that?
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Oh, wow! Though I have to say, I can't imagine I'd ever get around to reading those books. Maybe one or two, but not the whole series.
I'm up to episode 375 now. David and Hallie are investigating the mysterious playroom. There's a lunar eclipse, which promises the first of PT Carolyn's portents of doom (the night of the sun and the moon). Julia, Barnabas, and Quentin seemed aligned that trouble is coming, but Elizabeth paid for several months of horoscopes from Sebastian Shaw (who looks just like Jeb) and she's anticipating smooth sailing. Daphne is starting to haunt the kids.
In other news, I've gone from watching zero soap operas a few years ago to now I'm watching three...each with something a little extra. Kathy & I have started watching SOAP, the comedy soap opera from the 70s, and with the death of David Lynch I've started a Twin Peaks rewatch (which, in maybe a half-dozen episodes or so, will probably venture into new territory for me -- I can't remember how soon I dropped off after the revelation of Laura Palmer's killer, but I know I never saw the end of season 2, thanks to its always-shifting timeslot.)
So I'm watching soap + monsters, soap + comedy, and soap + surrealism.
Shortly after Tracy and I were married (and watching Dark Shadows together for the first time) we decided to collect all of Dan "Marilyn" Ross's Dark Shadows paperbacks after finding one in a used bookstore (these 32 plus the House of Dark Shadows movie adaptation). We eventually completed the set, almost entirely through online purchases. (The later ones become increasingly difficult to find due to smaller print runs.) I read the first six or seven or so, then petered out. When Hermes Press started reissuing the entire series in larger-than-paperback trade size, I preordered them, but started reading the ones I already had, picking up where I left off. My plan had been to continue reading my originals until the reissues caught up to me (which I assumed would happen sooner or later), then switch over. I forget at what point they did, but I continued reading until I petered out again. (I've been stuck at #19 for a while now.) I'll pick them up again one of these days.
I do now have two complete sets, one original, one reissue. I'd be willing to part with the originals (except the House adaptation), but I'd want to sell them as a set. They present a kind of "alternate history" (not necessarily consistant) of the Collins family, tending to avoid the areas hit by the TV show (1795, 1840, 1897). I was taking copious notes my second time through in order to compile a "Collins Family History," but as I said, I still haven't gotten through them all. If you are still reading Danny Horn's Dark Shadows Every Day blog you have no doubt read one or two of his reviews, which are honestly more entertaining than the books (I hesiate to call them "novels") themselves.
We love SOAP. SOAP was the last TV show I watched before I went cold turkey on television for a month or so. SOAP was one of the the few things (in retrospect) my former girlfriend and I had in common, and I was pleased to discover that Tracy likes it, too. (We have it on Columbia House VHS.) I didn't watch Twin Peaks when it was first run, but that's another series Tracy and I watched together for the first time after we were married. We've been thinking about re-watching it, too, since David Lynch's death. Lost, too.
I'm up to episode 375 now.
I'm going to assume you mean 1075. Here are a couple of things I noted since we left off. Barnabas and Julie are now back in the present. It was August 3 (show time) when they left parallel time, and August 3 when they returned from the future, where they spent two weeks. Quentin seems to present this as "proof" that they did not, in fact, travel to the future at all. Can it be that he does not understand how time travel works? This was before his time on the show, but Victoria Winters did spend 19 weeks in 1795 "between two ticks of the clock." Anyway, they returned from the future with six random phrases ("the night of the sun and the moon… the night Rose Cottage was destroyed… the unfinished horoscope… the night I sang my song… the picnic… the murder") which they continue to refer to as "clues." They're not that. Stokes refers to them as "riddles," but they're not that, either. I do like "portents of doom," though. Speaking of Stokes, it was said in 1995 that Collinwood was destroyed in 1970 while Stokes was in Europe, but back in the present, Stokes is not in Europe and has no plans to go, so what's up with that?
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