it was a pretty good reference source as well.
Oh, thanks for mentioning that. The "Guide to this Storyline" at
http://graeme.50webs.com/burkedevlin/01burke/index.htm
is actually both a comedy and a reference tool, as it has photos of
everyone who took part in the storyline, including Harvey Keitel and
"The Cab Driver From Episode 116" (excluding only a couple of extras
at the Blue Whale that I couldn't get shots of). In that sense, it's
a legit reference work as well as a joke.
There are actually 15 of these "Cast List" pages. 13 for the primary
DS storylines, plus two for the movies. I tried to market those as a
book of their own,but couldn't get any interest. As the FAQ explains,
DCP didn't want to talk to me without an agent, and an agent didn't
want to talk to me without my having the rights to DS. (I'd really
love to know how a book like "Trek Or Treat" ever got published).
I've thought of taking the captions for the two movies, changing the
names, collaborating with an artist to turn the photos into drawings,
and trying to market it as a parody. I might still do that, but this
early stuff should at least give some kind of gauge for how well it
would be received.
One advantage to doing it this way is that, knowing in advance where
the series is going, continuity errors can be either corrected, or
left in and joked about. Also, future events can be referred to. For
example, in episodes 3-4, coming up next, there's a reference to both
Quentin and Barnabas. In the speech Liz gives Roger about standing up
and fighting Burke like his ancestors would have done, she mentions
Isaac, who would have fought his way out, Quentin, who would have
drunk his way out, or Barnabas who would have bitten his way out. In
the episode where Angelique asks Tony Peterson for any artists who
have had dealings with the Collins family, Tony mentions Charles
Delaware Tate, retired and in his 90's. In the sample episode up, in
which Barnabas first rises, Natalie drools over the descriptions of
Quentin in Vicki's family history.
Or one I did recently, in which Stokes is telling Nicholas Blair about
the history of the Old House. On the actual show, he just said that
the house had been empty between 1796 and the present. In my version,
he's able to mention that the house was briefly inhabited in 1840 by
the son of the original Barnabas Collins. Nicholas innocently asks if
his name was Bramwell. Stokes says no, it was Barnabas also. At this
point our Barnabas unthinkingly objects that the original Barnabas
Collins had no son. Stokes says "I thought you were descended from
him", to which Barnabas obfuscates "Oh, THAT 'Original' Barnabas
Collins! I thought you meant Ben Cross."