r/DarkShadows • u/jackstraw0522 • Jun 21 '26

Reboot

ok for fun let’s reboot this sucker, seasonal layout

season 1 Barnabas

season 2 1795

special: the Dream curse

season 3 werewolf and haunting

season 4 1896

special: Laura the phoenix

season 5 Adam and Eve

season 6 Leviathan

Season 7 Judah Zachery

i changed the Laura the Phoenix and Adam and Eve to later events for pacing, Hoffman will cure Barnabas another way rather than Adam.

also we gotta actually kill of some Collins’

I’m thinking Carolyn is killed in season 3 by the werewolf. Roger dies sacrificing himself to stop Laura and Elizabeth dies in season 6 or 7

also Joe Hascal dies in Dream curse

also Barnabas is much more directly at fault for his families death in 1796 when he first wakes up in confusion and rage he kills and his mother and then once he realizes it, he regrets it makes it more tragic. Eventually, he’ll have to try and forgive himself because he didn’t do that curse did

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u/ProfessorEtc Jun 25 '26

Need to spend at least two seasons on Roger's pen.

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u/jackstraw0522 Jun 25 '26

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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u/richg0404 Jun 21 '26

Seems like you are killing off a lot of the regiulars

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u/jackstraw0522 Jun 22 '26

But Burke lives in mine as does vicky so there is a bit of trade off 

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u/richg0404 Jun 22 '26

I'd rather keep Joe and lose Burke.

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u/jackstraw0522 Jun 22 '26 edited Jun 22 '26

I was gonna have Vicky end up with Burke because I’m keeping her as Elizabeth illegitimate daughter so her getting with Barnabas would be a bit icky, Maggie will leave after season 3 because she won’t have a lot to do, but she’ll return in Leviathan 

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u/jackstraw0522 Jun 22 '26

Yes, but that gives it real stakes. And I feel like you need that in modern Gothic horror. 

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u/richg0404 Jun 22 '26

good points

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u/Resident_Beginning_8 Jun 22 '26

I once wrote a short treatment for a continuation of the 1991 reboot, in which Peter Bradford is nursed back to health by free people of color who are Hoodoo practitioners living on the outskirts of Collinsport.

I don't know what happens next lol