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.
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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.
Episode 1056: The Parallel Sky
I praise another commenter’s suggestion that 1970 Parallel Time (the segment I call “Meet Another Angelique”) would have been better with Alexandra Isles as an evil version of Vicki and Lara Parker as her innocent victim, the second Mrs Quentin Collins. That would make it an inversion of the 1795 storyline (which I call “Meet Angelique.”)
Episode 1080: What’s In Store
The “Meet Gerard” arc as a revision of the several hundred episodes preceding it.
Episode 1091: You, the Living
In which I point out that Dark Shadows has kept a key plot point ambiguous for two and a half years, and lament the fact that, in this week of episodes, they resolved that ambiguity in favor of a narrative dead-end.
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