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      DARK SHADOWS 640 640 “I’ve done these things lots of times,” “This house does seem scary on stormy nights, even to me.”   “I don’t like to feel my relatives. I’d like to see my relatives.”    Nancy . The reprise looks exactly the same but it is not. It’s hard to tell. For one, we see her feet and slippers as she enters the West Wing area after entering. It’s a longer shot.   I think when Amy turns around this time to look at the door (for some reason; was it supposed to close? Either way she looks creepily happy to be there; I mean would you? Amy comes off as totally disturbed in her first few episodes), this time, it is more close up to her than before but again, the reprise is so good it might be exactly the same. It’s not.    I looked again and again and in the original, we see at least three feet or so of the table or furniture the cobwebbed model of an old ship (a schooner?) is on. In this episode, we do not. AND the model looks le...

 dark shadows 639 639 “Dr. Hoffman, I could swear, it was dressed like a man.”   “Oh, David, this is so exciting.”   “David you were right.”  “Right about what?” “The west wing is haunted.”    “I think the man I’m talking to…is a ghost.”    “What’s this ghost’s name?”  “Quentin Collins.”   “I’ve never heard my father talk about a Quentin Collins.”       Grayson. Collinwood stands in majestic isolation under the brightness of…a full moon. A new and terrifying evil that prowls the woods of the Collins’ estate.   A slightly different reprise.   New material before opening titles and credit: Liz screams….badly and unlike Grayson’s screams, it’s not even funny. The creature runs away. Liz is on a rock and sees Amy. It is weird as if the show wants us to think she’s a ghost…or…the creature?   Then the theme and opening credit.   The animal ran away when it saw her. Wouldn’t you? Amy says as much. Liz says, “I...