Dark Shadows (TV series): Difference between revisions

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{{quote|''My name is [[The Protagonist|Victoria Winters]]. My journey is beginning. A journey that I hope will open the doors of life to me, and [[Rewatch Bonus|link my past with my future]]. A journey that will bring me to a strange and dark place. To the edge of the sea, high atop Widows' Hill. A house called [[Haunted House|Collinwood]]. A world I've never known, with people I've never met. [[Big Screwed-Up Family|People who tonight are still only shadows in my mind, but who will soon fill the days and nights of my tomorrows...]]''|The opening narration of the very first episode.}}

There was a short-lived television remake in [[The Nineties]], as well as a [[Big Finish]] radio series. A [[Tim Burton]] [[Dark Shadows (film)|movie version]] came out in 2012, with [[Johnny Depp]] portraying Barnabas Collins.

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* [[Aborted Arc]]: Victoria's parentage, once the [[Driving Question]], was left unresolved once Alexandra Moltke left the show. [[Word of God]] says: {{spoiler|Elizabeth Collins Stoddard is her mother.}}

* [[Betty and Veronica]]: Barnabas Collins is torn between the memory of his fiancee, Josette du Pres, a Betty type, and the Veronica type (to the max) Angelique, the witch who gave him the vampire curse. At the end he gets over his torch for Josette, and avows to Angelique that he loves her. She is then killed, and Barnabas ends up with neither.

** Sam Hall in one of the articles of the TV Guide claimed that, had the show continue, Barnabas {{spoiler|would have married Julia and find his cure to turn him human. Both would have end up living in the Far East. There's a casual reference of their journey together away from the family danger was referred in ''Return to Collinwood''.}}

* [[Bigger Bad]]: {{spoiler|Judah Zachery, the warlock responsible for the family curse, the titular "dark shadow."}}

* [[Breakout Character]]: Barnabas.

* [[What Happened to the Mouse?]]: at one point in the 1795 flashback, Jeramiah Collins buries Angelique alive because her hypnotizing him into marrying Josette led to his death. So where the hell was he when Angelique cursed his cousin with vampirism, which in turn led to practically his whole family being wiped out?

* [[What Year Is This?]]

* [[Woman Scorned]]: It's heavily implied that Barnabas and Angelique had sex. It's not clear whether this was before or after he became engaged to Josette, but Angelique got the short end of the stick either way. These events were the catalyst for Angelique's hatred for the Collins family.

* [[You Look Familiar]]: Some have appropriately described the cast as a theater troupe. If someone's character died, there was a good chance that the same actor would be back in a few weeks playing a different character.

* [[Your Cheating Heart]]: See "[[Woman Scorned]]" above.