In which I complain about “Barnabas, Quentin, and the Dumbest Possible Plan” ad give examples of ideas that I think would have been more interesting to watch play out.
Category: fanfic
Episode 883: The Tate Murders
I try to think of a less disappointing way for them to have killed off Count Petofi.
Episode 938: The Dunwich Cuckoo
In which I say that watching Dark Shadows always of necessity involves rewriting Dark Shadows. I also list cast members in common with 1776, so it’s not all fancy-pants theory.
Episode 981: The Clone Wars
I try to figure out how they could have kept the usual continuity alive during periods when most of the action took place in Parallel Time.
Episode 990: Let It Burn
I try to think of a way they could have kept us engaged with the usual continuity during periods when the show was mostly set in Parallel Time.
Episode 992: Is You Is Or Is You Ain’t
In which I say that the 1795 storyline (a.k.a. ”Meet Angelique”) would have been better if Cavada Humphrey had played a grown-up Sarah Collins who was a bossy big sister to her bratty little brother Barnabas.
Episode 1032: The Curse of Blinovitch
An easy way they could have established connections between Parallel Time Collinwood and Collinwood Prime.
Episode 1042: Still Another Murderer
My idea of how Julia came to be both a psychiatrist and a blood specialist.
Episode 1044: Weekend at Barney’s
Dark Shadows is not only inconsistent about details of vampire lore, but sometimes tangles itself up in those details in ways that make the show unnecessarily difficult to follow.
Episode 1049: All the Secrets
In which I wonder of Burke Devlin was the natural son of Quentin Collins.
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