I thought I knew DS quite well but I've become confused by something. In the remake, Victoria Winters was Josette's reincarnation. In this film, it's Maggie Evans. Which one was it in the original soap opera?
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It was Maggie.
shareThanks, duked. Any idea why they changed it for the remake? I do recall that in the soap opera, it was Victoria that was sent into the past. Having her as Josette's reincarnation in the remake made for a weird thing in the past because she and Josette looked exactly alike although no one seemed to notice.
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It was always maggie on the regular show.
in the 92 version, it was V.W., and they made Maggie Evans Psychic instead of Carolyn Stoddard.
I know and at the end of the '92 version, the evil bitch Angelique is in Maggie's body. Damn the Gulf War. I was loving the remake.
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as creepy as lara parker was and enjoyable too, i did like the new angelique. she had the fire needed for that character and was actually french too!!!!!
shareYes, I agree completely. Lara was wonderful and scared me silly back when I was a kid in the 60's and 70's but Lysette was just incredible in the roll. She portrayed Angelique's evil spirit getting off on the awful things she made happen much stronger IMHO.
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Lara Parker freaks me out as Angelique because she was constantly looking into the camera at "you" when she was being devious, like she was laughing with you at what she was going to be doing. that is kind of freaky.
i don't think anyone else used to do it, maybe david in the beginning.
I think you're right. She was the only one who sort of acted as if she was aware of the audience at times. Those wonderful eyes looking into the camera as she was reciting her spell or declaring how hellish she was going to make things was downright skin-crawl inducing. What creeped me most about Lysette's Angelique, though, was that laugh. I'd just gotten my VHS set back in the 90's and was watching it late one night and had dozed off. Her laugh woke me up and sent shivers down my back.
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In the early 90's version they needed to cut down the original story line so they could fit it into 12 episodes. So they kept Maggie but combined her storyline and Vickie's so Maggie no longer was the re-incarnated Josette.
Though actually in the original series Barnabas fell in love with Vicky later on and wanted to transform her into his new Josette. So basically they cut to the chase and made Vicky the reincarnation of Josette instead of Maggie Evans.
Going by the old series, Vicky and Maggie were both reincarnations. Which is quite far enough as Moltke and Scott did look quite ''same-ish'' which is why Kathryn Leigh Scott wore a blood wig for a bit, and played the ghost of Josette, who was said to look like Vicky! Chronology of this issue:
1. Vicky is looked in a room in which she sees the ghost of Josette (Kathryn Leigh Scott) who, in her words, ''LOOKS LIKE MEEEEEE!!!''
2. Barnabas arrived and talks to the painting of Josette, which looks neither like Vicky or Maggie.
3. Barnabas meets Maggie, who he sees as the reincarnation of Josette and there is some evidence to indicate he is right.
4. He wastes Maggie and thus looks for a new Josette...Vicky, and there is some evidence to suggest that she is the reincarnation of Josette...like Maggie!!!
5. Vicky leaves. Maggie stays. Barnabas doesn't go for Maggie straight away, but instead waits until he can meet the Kathryn Leigh Scotts of previous decades. In the 1890s there are two KLSs, Rachel and Kitty, who are unambiguously reincarnations of Josette (Kitty especially so). Maybe Josette always reincarnates as double!!!!!
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Lara Parker will always be the one and only 'Angelique'' to me.
shareWho is Victoria supposed to be in the original series, if Maggie Evans is David's governess?
shareVictoria was David's governess to begin with in the original series. She actually grew up in a foundling home and has no clue who she is. Then the foundling home receives a letter from Elizabeth Collins Stoddard offering Vicki the job to be David's governess. She had never heard of the Collins family nor the town of Collinsport so she thinks this may be a clue as to her true identity. Later on in the series she is transported back to the year 1795 where she is tried for witchcraft and falls in love with a man named Peter Bradford. Long story short, she later ends up going back to that year and spends the rest of her days with him. This is when Maggie takes over the job. So in all actuality they were both his governess.
I hope that answers your questions.
By the time Dan Curtis made this film, Vicki was long since history, Countess Alex Moltke had left to have a baby and her 2 replacements could not keep up where she left off. So the character was phased out. In making this movie, Dan wanted to have his established characters explore other avenues of themselves kinda like the Parallel Time storyline currently airing on the small screen at the time. Since Vicki Winters was now ancient history, Maggie became the bride of the vampire which technically she was when Frid first joined the cast.
shareAlso, wasn't KLS used for the ghost....in The Beginning Episodes (only because she was there that day, no other reason.)
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