Mood: Oh, very good =D
Listening to: Jeff Corwin on TV… he’s a funny guy…
So yeah…
I’ve already told you in the past that I found my series. I was looking for it, found the first 10 episodes on an online streaming thing… I’ve seen the show way way way in the past on sci-fi channel… and it was a show out of the ordinary. Not very normal, which I like… and after I lost the sci-fi channel I forgot all about it…
Then before christmas I stumbled upon it… I can’t really remember how it happened, but I checked it out, kinda remembered that I might have seen it before and watched the 10 first episodes. But after that I couldn’t find any more online streaming, so I checked for downloads. And because I never learn and don’t read stuff I ended up with the 9 first episodes :/
So I put it all out of my mind… But then I stumbled upon mini episodes someplace. They are pretty much condensed episodes, all riff raff and things that doesn’t matter taken out.
And I’m not almost at 300. And the show will start being in color soon =D
I have to admit that I did watch it a little wrong, because I came upon some episodes that were further into the show than I had hoped. But I did get to learn how and why Barnabas Collins (I’ll explain later) became a vampire.
Yes, the show has ghosts, vampire, female human/phoenix’, werewolves… and that’s about it, I think… OH! and a frankenstein creature called Adam..
I don’t know how I can explain properly…. at the beginning of the first episode you get to know a young woman called Victoria Winters. She’s on a train to Collinsport to work as a governess for a young boy, David Collins; son of Roger Collins; brother of Elizabeth Collins Stoddard; mother to Carolyn Stoddard. They all live in Collinwood, a manson on the slight outskirts of Collinsport. The grand house was built in the 1790’s by Josuah Collins.
But none of this is really that important.. lol
Victoria starts working there, and as the episodes pass you have love, jealously, death threats, ghosts, crazy young boy, crazy woman killing people, murder, old murder, blackmail and after about 200 episodes you get Barnabas Collins. A vampire who has been asleep for some 200 years… give or take.. when he went to sleep he had just lost the lady he loved most of all: Josette Dupres Collins. That’s right… they were kinda family. She was married to Barnies cousin or something like that because her handmaiden had bewitched her and her future husband so that they’d get married and Barnie could marry her instead… Angelique, that is…. Yeah, turns out Angelique was a witch.
But I think there was a duel or something and someone died, and so Barnie and Josette were set to live happily ever after. But remember Barnie was married to Angelique, and she had something to say about it. She cursed him.. and he died.. and then turned into a vampire… and then he got all “Sweet, if I can turn Josette into one too, we’ll live FOREVER!” But Angelique was still a bitch and showed Josette what she would be like as an undead… and so Josette jumped to her death. And then Angelique set out to kill Barnie… but he turned the tables and killed her instead.
Let’s just say that alot of people died as a result of Barbabas becoming undead. Even his sister died, but not because he bit her. When Barnie died they thought it was the plague. So the family decided that it would be better to say he “went to England” instead. But of course they didn’t tell Barnie’s 10 year old sister who was so sure she saw him one day and went after him, ending up in the family crypt.. caught pnemonia and died.
So now that Barnie has been brought back to life, so to speak, he has set out to find his Josette again, and he frankly couldn’t care less who it is. First he tried to turn the local cafè lady into Josette, but she lost her mind. Well, he kinda hypnotised her into thinking she was Josette, then she remembered who she was, played along for a while so that she could escape, got caught, put in “jail”, lost her mind and then escaped with the help from the ghost of Barnie’s sister, Sarah. The doctor said it would be best to just let everyone know she was dead so the guy who had her wouldn’t come after her… and it worked… But then Barnie got a new love interest. Victoria. And seeing as she’s in love with the past, so to speak, she seemed a more villing victim.
And this is about where I am now…. and I snapped some really cool pictures of vampire Barbabas trying to munch the local street walker.
I don’t know what it is.. I mean… he’s not the most attractive bloke in the world. But I guess it’s the darkness in him. AND he’s a pretty good actor.
And that’s another thing I love about the show. The show was recorded live, so to speak… If they made mistakes they couldn’t go back and redo it… and that means, at times, you see stage hands in the background. Which is hilarious when a person is locked in a sealed room, utterly alone, moaning about their aloneness and the camera pan out and you see a stagehand huddled in the corner.
And let’s not forget the lines. People forget lines, stumble and/or pronounce things wrong. But in a way that makes things seem more real.
So yeah.. I really love the show in all its badness… But it is pretty good too…
But I won’t drone on.. I’m sure you have no interest in it… lol
Also, on the movie site, I don’t know if I said, but we had a public viewing and ripping of a movie.
I thought it was great fun, and I think the rest of the gang thought so too…
I am now trying to find another movie to watch on Sunday.
I also, the other day, saw a little of “Scanners 3” which was… well… the acting was bad… but the blood spatter was brilliant. I’ve very rarely seen that kind of head explosion.
But now I’m off…
Ta-ra for now..
Lene