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<blockquote data-quote="Daniel Avery" data-source="post: 172443" data-attributes="member: 27">The primetime remake/reboot/revival in 1991 picked up the stories that began with Barnabas&#039;s awakening and boiled down about a year of storylines into thirteen, hour-long episodes.&nbsp; Sitting through the original half-hour, daily episodes can be a chore at first.&nbsp; In early syndication, local stations simply skipped the pre-Barnabas episodes.&nbsp; &quot;Purists&quot; would of course demand every episode be viewed, but I think a casual viewer might do fine to start with the material around three weeks before Frid joins the cast.The best parts (to me) are the flashback periods.&nbsp; The actors seem to like getting to play other characters for a while, and the plots are written with much higher stakes since the writers can kill off those characters with reckless abandon (and usually do).&nbsp; In those plots, killing off a character didn&#039;t mean firing the actor.&nbsp; 1795 laid the groundwork, of course, but 1897 went so well, ratings-wise that they were forced to extend the trip back in time longer than originally planned.&nbsp; I also liked the parallel-time visits.&nbsp; The popularity of these trips through time and space made the present-day stuff look kind of dull in comparison, and as they got closer to the end of the series it seemed the time spent in present-day Collinsport was merely the set-up for their next trip into the past and/or a parallel universe.I love the show dearly, but I can&#039;t picture having the patience or the inclination to re-watch the show again.&nbsp; Like others have said, it&#039;s just too many episodes (1225) with many of them barely pushing any plotline along.&nbsp; There are periods where they burn through plot so fast that it would make Darren Star blush, but there are just as many periods where you watch three or four episodes in a row and wonder &quot;Did anything happen?&quot;.&nbsp; The last time I made the effort to watch it was when the Sci-Fi Channel ran four consecutive episodes every morning for about two years (?).&nbsp; By the time they started 1840-41 I was watching only so I could say I completed the task, not because it was so watchable and exciting...because frankly it was neither.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Daniel Avery, post: 172443, member: 27"] The primetime remake/reboot/revival in 1991 picked up the stories that began with Barnabas's awakening and boiled down about a year of storylines into thirteen, hour-long episodes. Sitting through the original half-hour, daily episodes can be a chore at first. In early syndication, local stations simply skipped the pre-Barnabas episodes. "Purists" would of course demand every episode be viewed, but I think a casual viewer might do fine to start with the material around three weeks before Frid joins the cast. The best parts (to me) are the flashback periods. The actors seem to like getting to play other characters for a while, and the plots are written with much higher stakes since the writers can kill off those characters with reckless abandon (and usually do). In those plots, killing off a character didn't mean firing the actor. 1795 laid the groundwork, of course, but 1897 went so well, ratings-wise that they were forced to extend the trip back in time longer than originally planned. I also liked the parallel-time visits. The popularity of these trips through time and space made the present-day stuff look kind of dull in comparison, and as they got closer to the end of the series it seemed the time spent in present-day Collinsport was merely the set-up for their next trip into the past and/or a parallel universe. I love the show dearly, but I can't picture having the patience or the inclination to re-watch the show again. Like others have said, it's just too many episodes (1225) with many of them barely pushing any plotline along. There are periods where they burn through plot so fast that it would make Darren Star blush, but there are just as many periods where you watch three or four episodes in a row and wonder "Did anything happen?". The last time I made the effort to watch it was when the Sci-Fi Channel ran four consecutive episodes every morning for about two years (?). By the time they started 1840-41 I was watching only so I could say I completed the task, not because it was so watchable and exciting...because frankly it was neither. [/QUOTE]

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