We'll see it all very much from Barnabas' point of view. I thought that would be interesting because we'll get all the stuff the character doesn't know. I did the count and figured out what the Barnabas episodes were, and through in the Angelique episodes. It would not take that many hours a day, and I can knock it out in about four or five weeks.
I started to get the idea of the journals again, and thought I'd just do them for BARNABAS. Strangely, it almost becomes Angelique's story. When I look at story construction, I ask, 'Who makes the most important decision in the climax of the story?' Looking at DARK SHADOWS and considering JUDAH ZACHARY to be the cause of everyone's misery, then the person who makes the most important decision in all of that is ANGELIQUE. Then I went through the "experiment" last year, and came away with a shifted perspective on who the protagonist was. I thought, 'Gosh, if you sewed together all his diary entries from the show, you'd almost have a biography of BARNABAS COLLINS. So I thought, 'Wouldn't it be great if somebody did that?' This was years ago, maybe 10-20 years ago, when I was reading PHILIP JOSE FARMER's biography of DOC SAVAGE and stuff like that. You've got this character and he travels through time and is vaguely immortal, and is in, what I thought at the time, most of the episodes. It was initially going to be an episode guide, or something I wanted to see as an episode guide.
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