NOTES:
Okay, so Nicholas is in deep doo-doo now. Eve died, while
he was wasting valuable time on slides about Vicki and Peter Bradford,
and Liz's stupid buried alive fear, and other subplots that went
absolutely nowhere.
"Bring her! But that means she must die!" --
Nicholas doesn't seem too happy about this. He even seems a bit
peeved at Balberith, actually. This raises an interesting question.
Where do you tell someone to go when they're already in Hell?
Cleveland, maybe?
"Go, Nicholas - go back to earth - and prepare your
wedding plans!" -- "Well, we were thinking of a full church
wedding, sir... no offense!!"
His proposal met with cosmic scorn. -- That's
a great line, isn't it? You may have gotten pretty P.O.'ed at
people, but have you ever given them cosmic scorn? Try it
sometime.
Roiling masses of fog... -- Yes, "roiling" is
actually a real word. "Roil: to make turbid by stirring
up the sediment or dregs of." I'd never heard it before. And
you thought I was kidding when I said this booklet was tougher
to suss than some of the assignments we got in school?
Some things that work in print wouldn't really work onscreen, and
Nicholas coming to Collinwood surrounded by a roiling cloud around
him is definitely one of them. He'd have looked like Pigpen would
have looked if they'd ever done a live-action Peanuts movie.
...billowed about the towers of
Collinwood as Nicholas returned, creating, even by day -
dark shadows. -- Yeah, this is the end of the book. Were you
wondering what happened to Nicholas or Maggie, or Adam, or Barnabas
or even Harry Johnson? Well, tough. Viewmaster stopped 7 episodes
before the end of the story. By the time the Viewmaster came out,
they were already well into the next storyline, and almost never
referred back to this one again. There were no soap opera mags then,
and certainly no Internet, so no easy way to find out how everything
had come out except by asking around. If Viewmaster reproduces
the feeling of tuning into the middle of a soap opera you've never
seen, then the "end" here represents the feeling of frustration
after watching a few episodes, not making heads or tails of it, and
switching over to I Dream of Jeannie reruns or something. The
big difference is that if you really watched 24 episodes of a soap
opera, you'd be starting to have a pretty good idea what was going
on by that time, whereas, you'd still have almost no idea just from
reading this booklet. Moral of the Story: If you want to find out
what's happening on Dark Shadows, pick up a few re-runs on the Sci-Fi
Channel. Or study the guide to this storyline at
http://burkedevlin.freewebsites.com/06adam/.
Or download some episode summaries. Or go buy the DVD's. Or...
- Wrap Up: Characters who appeared in this package
- Barnabas Collins
- Roger Collins
- Elizabeth Collins Stoddard
- Angelique Collins
- Nicholas Blair
- Diabolos
- Dr. Julia Hoffman
- Joe Haskell
- Victoria Winters
- Maggie Evans
- Timothy Eliot Stokes
- Peter Bradford/Jeff Clark
- Harry Johnson
- Mrs. Johnson
- Adam
- Eve/Danielle Roget
- Characters who appeared in Episodes 605
- 629, but who did NOT make it into the Viewmaster Package.
See how lucky you are? You could have ended up not understanding
all these guys too.
- Carolyn Collins Stoddard
- David Collins
- Amy Jennings
- Chris Jennings
- Tom Jennings
- Willie Loomis
- Sheriff Patterson
- Mr. Wells
- Nurse Pritchett
- Nurse
- Prescott the Jailor
- Joshua Collins
- Ben Stokes
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