Jeff of Earth-J > Rob Staeger (Grodd Mod)October 3, 2025 at 12:29pm
We're standing pat at 1199 for the time being. I figure it will take you 16 weeks to get to the end of the series (based on how long it took you to watch the last 47 episode leading up to 1202). So that's... what? January 23? That means if we start watching again on December 7, we should get to the end at roughly the same time. Otherwise, let me know when you think you're 47 days from the end.
I've seen through episode 1206 now. Melanie discovered Stella held captive by upstairs, and wants to release her, but Julia and Flora convince her to wait another day. Then she turns up dead -- a knife sticking out of her when her body is seen, but then described as strangled in the next episode. Did Melanie do it in one of her fugue states? We don't know.
Meanwhile, the Bramwell/Morgan/Catherine triangle has almost resulted in a marriage between Morgan and Catherine, but has instead resulted in a duel. Morgan and Bramwell are pacing it out in the cliffhanger.
And Bramwell's mom Josette has appeared! Her husband (and his dad) Barnabas is apparently dead in this continuity. I don't know if he was stabbed to death or strangled. Probably both.
Jeff of Earth-J > Rob Staeger (Grodd Mod)December 4, 2025 at 8:28am
Tracy and I have resumed watching. I estimate we'll be done by January 10, but we can pick up the pace if need be. I have a special post planned for after 1245 which I have already begun working on. This will be the first time we have watched 1841-PT not immediatley following 1840. I'm trying to think of it as a wholly different show (which is not too difficult)... and it's not very good. It was an odd choice to completely abandon everything that made the show what it was for its final 13 weeks.
Then she turns up dead -- a knife sticking out of her when her body is seen, but then described as strangled in the next episode.
As Danny Horn put it: "Julia tells Morgan that Stella was strangled. If that's true, she must have been strangled with a knife because that's what was sticking out of her chest yesterday."
...the Bramwell/Morgan/Catherine triangle...
Catherine does seem to love them both, but oone two occasions (the first attepmt at a the lottery and the duel) she insists on being married to Morgan first (even though that would require her to participate in the lottery in the first case) so as not to lose out on the benefits of being Margan Collins' widow.
And Bramwell's mom Josette has appeared!
This reality is essentially "What if there were no 'Angelique' in Collins family history?"
Also, it's hard to figure how the lottery could have been held in this room every generation since 1680 if the mansion wasn't built until 1795 (at least in non-PT).
I have added Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights and Shirley Jackson's The Lottery to "Dark Shadows' Séances and Sources."
Looks as if we've topped out with no fewer than 21 séances.
Having now seen the 1680 flashback, in PT the mansion -- or at least a substantial part of it -- was built by then.
Jeff of Earth-J > Jeff of Earth-JDecember 6, 2025 at 11:57am
I have a special post planned for after 1245 which I have already begun working on.
Well, forget that.
For the 200th and final VHS tape, MPI hired Roger Davis to read a short piece written by Sam Hall which extrapolated what future plot points might have been had the show not been cancelled. What I had planned to do was transcribe it, then post it here following episode 1245. What I meant when I said that I had "already begun working on [it]" was that I already went to the trouble of transcibing it. Then (just now, actually) I found out the piece was originally an article written for TV Guide and that Danny Horn had already transcribed it for his "Dark Shadows Every Day" blog. What's more, the MPI version was abridged! Also, Mr. Horn did a much better job than I would have done because he offerred commentary on the article as well.
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We're standing pat at 1199 for the time being. I figure it will take you 16 weeks to get to the end of the series (based on how long it took you to watch the last 47 episode leading up to 1202). So that's... what? January 23? That means if we start watching again on December 7, we should get to the end at roughly the same time. Otherwise, let me know when you think you're 47 days from the end.
My plan this year was to get through the series by the end of the year; that's meant 15 episodes a month, which I've pretty much stuck to.
Barnabas lives in the basement of the old house because he is nostalgic.
What good is being a vampire if you can't be rich and entitled, too?
I've seen through episode 1206 now. Melanie discovered Stella held captive by upstairs, and wants to release her, but Julia and Flora convince her to wait another day. Then she turns up dead -- a knife sticking out of her when her body is seen, but then described as strangled in the next episode. Did Melanie do it in one of her fugue states? We don't know.
Meanwhile, the Bramwell/Morgan/Catherine triangle has almost resulted in a marriage between Morgan and Catherine, but has instead resulted in a duel. Morgan and Bramwell are pacing it out in the cliffhanger.
And Bramwell's mom Josette has appeared! Her husband (and his dad) Barnabas is apparently dead in this continuity. I don't know if he was stabbed to death or strangled. Probably both.
Tracy and I have resumed watching. I estimate we'll be done by January 10, but we can pick up the pace if need be. I have a special post planned for after 1245 which I have already begun working on. This will be the first time we have watched 1841-PT not immediatley following 1840. I'm trying to think of it as a wholly different show (which is not too difficult)... and it's not very good. It was an odd choice to completely abandon everything that made the show what it was for its final 13 weeks.
Then she turns up dead -- a knife sticking out of her when her body is seen, but then described as strangled in the next episode.
As Danny Horn put it: "Julia tells Morgan that Stella was strangled. If that's true, she must have been strangled with a knife because that's what was sticking out of her chest yesterday."
...the Bramwell/Morgan/Catherine triangle...
Catherine does seem to love them both, but oone two occasions (the first attepmt at a the lottery and the duel) she insists on being married to Morgan first (even though that would require her to participate in the lottery in the first case) so as not to lose out on the benefits of being Margan Collins' widow.
And Bramwell's mom Josette has appeared!
This reality is essentially "What if there were no 'Angelique' in Collins family history?"
Also, it's hard to figure how the lottery could have been held in this room every generation since 1680 if the mansion wasn't built until 1795 (at least in non-PT).
I have added Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights and Shirley Jackson's The Lottery to "Dark Shadows' Séances and Sources."
Looks as if we've topped out with no fewer than 21 séances.
Having now seen the 1680 flashback, in PT the mansion -- or at least a substantial part of it -- was built by then.
I have a special post planned for after 1245 which I have already begun working on.
Well, forget that.
For the 200th and final VHS tape, MPI hired Roger Davis to read a short piece written by Sam Hall which extrapolated what future plot points might have been had the show not been cancelled. What I had planned to do was transcribe it, then post it here following episode 1245. What I meant when I said that I had "already begun working on [it]" was that I already went to the trouble of transcibing it. Then (just now, actually) I found out the piece was originally an article written for TV Guide and that Danny Horn had already transcribed it for his "Dark Shadows Every Day" blog. What's more, the MPI version was abridged! Also, Mr. Horn did a much better job than I would have done because he offerred commentary on the article as well.
Rats.
Aw, nuts!
Looks as if we've topped out with no fewer than 21 séances.
Scratch that! I thought we were done with séances when we moved to 1841 PT, but I just watched 1209 and it looks as if I was mistaken.
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