"My name is Victoria Winters, my journey is beginning ..."

[adamski]

Thanks for that Daniel, having gone back and read the "Afton has arrived in Collinsport" thread I think I'll start at the beginning. Am kinda scared of getting hooked on such a long-running show as I'm still working my way through several other shows (including Prisoner: Cell Block H) but DS does sound awesome!

[sunshineboyuk]

Someone keeps trying to eat all the waitresses and cattle in Collinwood. Maggie the waitress is scared that someone has followed her home. There is a knock on the door! Happily it's nice Mr Barnabas, only the most sinister man who ever lived, so of course she is in no danger from him and invites him inside. He's got a thing for her dad's paintings and commissions him to do his portrait, but stipulating that they can work only at night and in the cobwebby house. Joan Bennett is not best pleased when "My name is Victoria Winters" tells her that Harvey Beth Lacey has moved into the cobwebby house with Barnabas (I knew she wouldn't be). She pops round to investigate and that weird kid tags along. He starts freaking out about how the house has changed. Joan hovers anxiously, waiting for the kid to remember his lines in the right order. (He repeats that the house has changed about fifteen times.) Turns out he's got the hots for some dead chick called Josette (whoever that is; there's a postcard of her in a wedding dress that comes with the DVD so I guess she's a big deal) and Barnabas has taken down the portrait of her that used to hang in the cobwebby house.

HA! James how subversive of you to start 200 episodes in. Thats a huge deal, I'm impressed. I think when you finally go back in time to the very beginning and watch the first 200 eps you'll be .... is enlightened the wrong word? Yes it is. You'll be...... somethinged. Especially about the weird kid and Josette, although you're now 200 million eps in from me and doubtless Josette has now rocked up as Kate Jackson or Harvey Beth Lacey in drag.