A story idea of mine which, done as a TV movie in late 1968, might have saved Vicki as a character, resolved the mystery of her origins, and given Adam an appropriate send-off.
Tag: paul stoddard
Episode 893: The Night of the Big Lie
Why the retconning of Paul Stoddard works as well as it does.
Episode 900: The Long Con
In which I argue that the opening of the Leviathan segment is “the gayest storyline the show has taken on yet.”
Episode 962: The Second Law of Thermodynamics
How the lack of non-supernatural storylines impoverishes the human characters, making it difficult to pace the supernatural ones.
Episode 991: Parsing Sabrina
I look back at the opening of the Leviathans story, and see several moments that look a lot like men afraid of being gay.
Episode 1231: The Curse of Collinwood, or How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
I bring up the one example in Dark Shadows of a curse that originated with a Faustian bargain- Paul Stoddard’s deal with the Leviathans. I speculate that 1841 PT may have been good if they’d established the origin of its curse in a deal Brutus Collins made with the Devil.
Episode 1231: The Curse of Collinwood, or How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Dark Shadows Commentary 