The Gwampy Thread

[reyler]

I can't remember if that was one of the ones that got cancelled but I hope it was.

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

i haven't paid attention since dark shadows got cancelled

[reyler]

... didn't that happen like twenty-plus years ago? Long enough that most people who heard Tim Burton was making a movie didn't know it was anything before he got to it.

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

more like 30 and nearing 40 + i should think.

 

gradma and i watched it together. in the olden days.

 

yes, originally cancelled April 2, 1971... so... my math is weak, but that's 40+

Edited January 3, 2012 by cindy

[reyler]

I had certainly never heard of it before last year when my mother found out Burton was making a film and she melted into a puddle of goop.

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

that's pretty much what i did when you mentioned it just now.... admittedly, i'm sick and prone to gloopage atm, but... damn... really have to see this thing.

[reyler]

There's a promotional cast photo that was released a couple months ago floating around out there somewhere, but I'm at work and not very inclined to hunt. Has the usual Tim Burton suspects, with Johnny Depp front and center. You might try Dark Horizons.

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

mmmmmm.....

 

[reyler]

If you say so. Looks kinda like someone Photoshopped a recolored Johnny Depp face onto Brad Pitt from Interview with a Vampire. The shots I've seen all put him in fairly ordinary period-relevant suiting. Plus they misspelled the character's name.

 

Couldn't find that cast picture on Dark Horizons, but I did run across a reminder that Michelle Pfeiffer is in it. Only been like twenty years since the last time she was in a Burton film.

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

which was it, i don't recall her at all.

[reyler]

No, I mean she's in the new film. It's based on the old series, not a continuation or anything like that; don't expect to see any of the original surviving cast, except maybe in cameos.

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

i understand. i meant i don't recall michelle pfeiffer in a tim burton film which i'm sure is a major brain fail but...

 

aw, skip it.

 

um, and i know the original cast, cause for me we're talking 1971, is not... well, probably not still alive.

[reyler]

Batman Returns! She played Catwoman! It's one of my avatars!

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

.... i know enough to know that everyone else in the world would know that. and i like how exasperated your avatar looks right now... but... no way i would know that. i'm... very strange.

[reyler]

Kinda wondering now which avatar was giving you the stinkeye.

[bad company]

Must be why her avatar is snarling at you

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

it's a general pinciple

Edited January 5, 2012 by cindy

[reyler]

Pin Missile?

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

typo chat?

[reyler]

Pin Missile is a garbage attack anyway. I don't know why they were so determined to make bug-type so worthless the first time around.

[GrandpaG]

I remember being scared by Dark Shadows. It was on in the afternoon after I got home from school. As I remember it was just another boring soap opera before the vampire thing. Took it to overnight fame. Of course, back then we only had CBS, NBC and ABC to choose from unless you lived in a major city that might have PBS. Where I lived it was mainly CBS. My grandparents had no electricity and used an out house until I was probably ten. Pitcher pump for kitchen water. Wood stove in the living room for heat. Yes. I remember Dark Shadows. My mom and dad had electricity AND a television. And a phone (on a party line, of course). We had it good. But, visiting grandpa and grandma was still always a special treat. They both loved me.

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

i remember it very much the same way.

 

except mom and me lived with grandma, and we had indoor plumbing, though the remains of the outhouse were still out back. and we had a gas boiler, and radiators, though we were often out of gas.

 

i bet you're not very much older than me at all, if you were scared of dark shadows after school.

 

were you as annoyed by the watergate hearings as i was?

[GrandpaG]

i remember it very much the same way.

 

except mom and me lived with grandma, and we had indoor plumbing, though the remains of the outhouse were still out back. and we had a gas boiler, and radiators, though we were often out of gas.

 

i bet you're not very much older than me at all, if you were scared of dark shadows after school.

 

were you as annoyed by the watergate hearings as i was?

 

 

 

I'll be 58 this April Fool's Day (thus First Fool of Fiddlesticks).

 

I wasn't much into politics when Watergate took place. Come to think of it, I still don't take the whole political scene very seriously. Tremendous over use of taxpayer's money IMO. A good dictator could probably do as good much cheaper. Until he got his butt blown away by some goody two shoes democratic country that is. (just realized that some people might disagree with those thoughts).

 

Wifey needs the phone. See everybody next week (good lord willing and the creek don't rise).

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

i was about 8 for watergate, and i got in a lot of trouble at my conservative school parroting my mom's... not conservative feelings. she wanted him executed.

[reyler]

For spying on his opponents? Everyone does that, he was just sloppy. Now we have Facebook to make it easy for the Common Man.