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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Willie Oleson" data-source="post: 410867" data-attributes="member: 8">I don't think I had thanked [USER=27]@Daniel Avery[/USER] for the link to darkshadowseveryday.com.Luckily/magically, the number of unavailable DS episodes has been reduced from 200 to 40, and I plan to go back to Collinsport "live" tomorrow or Monday.But reading up on those missing parts is certainly not a chore, in fact it's almost as entertaining as watching it.It's not like those synopses on wiki, like, "A goes to B, B tries to avoid C, something happens, somebody returns". Oh no, darkshadowseveryday is a passion project, and even if I didn't already consider myself a DS fan then this website would cement the feeling.It's got many quotes taken from the episodes, lots of images and it's very, very funny.There are also some shocking revelations: the Vickyist comments, apparently not  realising how important she is to this soap.Whenever there's a need for redemption, a character or the soap itself, it always comes back to her. Only she, in all her badly acted cluelessness, can decide what's acceptable and what's not.And then there's the mention of the four (!!) commercial breaks, which I think is only doable if you're born and raised in America.Here's an interesting quote from dseveryday:Then we go over to the Old House, where Barnabas is reading a book, which is not a good way to start a scene. In Monday’s post, I mentioned this regrettable trend of opening with someone knocking on the door while Barnabas is curled up with a book.The main character on your soap opera should not have this much free time. It sets a bad example for everyone else.<a href="https://darkshadowseveryday.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/553-dark-shadows-jeff-barnabas-arguing.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="https://darkshadowseveryday.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/553-dark-shadows-jeff-barnabas-arguing.jpg?w=604" alt="553 dark shadows jeff barnabas arguing" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>Soap opera characters should always be doing one of the following things: kissing, crying, drinking, gossiping, running away from something, scheming, seducing, putting on a shirt, taking off a shirt, accusing, confronting, testifying, proposing, apologizing, divorcing, misplacing, switching babies, planting explosives in a wedding cake, quitting, slapping, suspecting, outsmarting, tampering with DNA test results, realizing at the last second, waiting for the killer to make a mistake, or opening a nightclub.Reading is not on that list. We have no use for characters who read on television.I  guess it depends on how the character reads. On/in Dynasty there's a scene in which Krystle Carrington reads a magazine but clearly not in a focused way, and this tells me a lot about her state of mind. A daytime soap, and especially Dark Shadows, would give the actor a "thought bubble" to inform us about whatever dilemma.Furthermore, soap characters sitting on their ass doing nothing interesting are bound to be interrupted by something or someone unpleasant.[ATTACH=full]54510[/ATTACH]It's a soap's "sitting duck" tradition.<a href="https://darkshadowseveryday.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/553-dark-shadows-jeff-barnabas-dry.jpg" target="_blank">https://darkshadowseveryday.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/553-dark-shadows-jeff-barnabas-dry.jpg</a></blockquote>

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