OH NO WHO SAID MICHAEL STROKA AND JERRY LACY COULD SHARE A SCENE
His pattern spells “horse”
holy fuck. what kind of witchery is this?!
WHAT THE HELL.
I was like, what a pretty pattern. Now I can’t unsee the letters.
NOT NORMAL WTF
Yo dawg I heard you like horses
That is just allele spooky.
BUT…HOW
#the real barnabas #fuck all of you
hahahahaha oh they’re serious
okay
#so am i ostracized for thinking that depp!barnabas is more tolerable as a romantic hero than jfrid’s barnabas? #because lbr they’re kind of entirely different characters
I think they’re both pretty heinous in that regard, tbh, but like Brooke mentioned, I think I could buy that ~romantic longing~ from JFrid more if only because I WAS HIT OVER THE HEAD WITH IT OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN whereas Burton Shadows was sort of this Barnabas/Angie romp bonus Nightmare!Josette
HOWEVER IT’S NOT EVEN THAT OLD JFRID VS. JDEPP BULLSHIT THAT CONCERNS ME HERE because honestly guys even if you were horribly and personally offended by that performance it’s not like it’s going to affect the original series - Johnny Depp is not going to go and digitally insert himself into hundreds of episodes okay - it’s always going to be Jonathan Frid and nothing will ever change that so I just
don’t
understand
why this is such a big deal for so many people on the tag and around the internet
I GUESS WHAT I MEANT WAS THAT HE WAS ALL ~EVIL BRAINWASHING~ IN THE BEGINNING AND WE WERE SUPPOSED TO BE LIKE “NO HE CAN’T GET HIS JOSETTE THAT’S BAD”
AND THEN JFRID STARTS WITH THE ~SOULFUL LOOKS~ AND WE’RE SUPPOSED TO BE LIKE “NO HE’S THE GREATEST I WANT HIM TO BE WITH JOSETTE FOREVER!” or any lady of your choice idk.
but no i totally agree that they’re both pretty bad ngl but the - transition - with johnny was easier for me or something?
but other than that yes basically you said.
LOLL I mean yeah JFrid’s Barnabas was supposed to be evil and was supposed to be killed off after a two week arc but everyone loved the whole vampire thing and then JFrid’s SOULFUL LOOKS of “oh shit you guys I CANNOT REMEMBER MY LINES” made him look more sympathetic so they decided to make him the protagonist of the show
except instead of actually going back and redeeming him they just completely 180’d the character and LOL MAYBE NO ONE WILL NOTICE? and he ended up being a douchebag still anyway just one that the show tried to make us like so
with Depp!Barnabas they went into it knowing he was supposed to be a good guy
and then he ended up creepy and a dick anyway (like seriously “lying and stealing people’s blood is something you’re familiar with” SHE ACTUALLY HAD A VERY GOOD POINT THERE)
so basically BARNABAS IS A DOUCHE WHO CARES ABOUT HIM ANYWAY?
If I were going to be upset about who is the TRUE CHARACTER it would definitely be Julia, especially since Burton!Julia got so much attention being played by HBC and all yet the character got completely butchered in the transition to movie
I went with a friend who knew nothing about it besides what he saw in the trailers, and he was pretty lukewarm about the whole thing and mostly confused. it ended and he was like “so what was the point of that movie”, and that probably sums up what ends up being the movie’s biggest drawback right there.
in any event, while I was watching all these new thoughts and feelings and comments on it kept popping into my head and I wanted to remember them and make a big post about it analyzing the movie again
but all I have for you now is:
evil josette fic, it’s happening
On the move again.
Johnny Depp has now been moved to the man hole to the roof of our theater.
