Interesting post. Parallel Time Thayer heavy? Sort of light heavy.
Not nearly as evil or interesting as Petofi.
Not as interesting as Petofi, granted, but I found Parallel Eliot
Stokes to be kind of interesting. He was kind of a grungier, slobbier
version of Profesor Stokes (like a cross between Professor Stokes and
Matthew Morgan). Petfoi was more like what Professor Stokes would be
if he were Evil. Parallel Stokes had the professor's education and
intelligence, but in a kind of Homer Simpson way. Intelligent and
repulsive at the same time. And the whole story had the same kind of
absurdity we had with Dr. Lang (a normal doctor working in a hospital
who does Mad Science in his spare time). The whole thing was
delightfully absurd. A guy who dabbles in the occult has a death in
the family, so he does what any kook would do: work Black Magic to
bring her back to life the minute somebody touches her... in her
grave. In real life he'd have been waiting a long time, but on TV, it
happens sooner than you think. So she's alive again, but cause he got
his magic from a discount house in Hoboken, she can only stay that way
by sucking body heat out of random people every couple of episodes. I
wish I could make that stuff up myself.
And Angelique is a powerful witch, and her father is a powerful mad
scientist but their whole lievs are overturned because Roger (in all
universes, a guy with no particular abilities or power) had an
unrequited crush on her and killed her with a hatpin. It's so goofy
that I love it.
But I refuse to believe Stokes could have fathered two women who look
like Lara Parker. Even with magic that ain't possible.