Yesterday, we were in the great house on the estate of Collinwood when dying nonagenarian Edith Collins met mysterious newcomer Barnabas Collins. She told Barnabas that she recognized him. Edith had been entrusted with the Collins family’s darkest secret, which was about Barnabas. He is a vampire, entombed in the 1790s to be kept forever away from the living. Now it is 1897, and Edith sees that…

l-r Perry Astor, Sergeant Pranit Singh Dhillon, Dr Leonard Winston, Françoise Pelletier and Edith Collins.

“Men such as you, don’t age well…”

Edith Collins (Isabella Hoopes) speaking with her grandson Quentin Collins (David Selby) - “Dark Shadows” Episode 701

Voice Claim Time 👀

Phuong: Emma Stone (English), Tang Thanh Ha (Vietnamese)

Keegan/“Bell”/Zhanat: Constance Wu (English), Aisulu Azimbayeva (Kazakh/Russian)

Eddie: Zoe Saldana

Three of the residents of the great house of Collinwood in the year 1897 are spinster Judith Collins, her brother, libertine Quentin Collins, and their grandmother, nonagenarian Edith Collins. At the opening of today’s episode, Judith walks in on Quentin strangling Edith in her bed. She tells him to stop it and leave the room. He complies, with a sulk. Edith shakes off her annoyance with Quentin,…

I’m rewatching the 1897 Storyline. It seems most fan of “Dark Shadow” believe the Old Edith is the same character as Young Edith from the 1840 storyline. I’ve posted here before that I do not think they are the same.

Websites like the Dark Shadows Wiki mention “negated” timelines to explain how Young Edith died in 1840 yet was still alive in 1897. If so, that involves some very complicated hoops to jump through.

A simpler answer is that Old Edith is a different character. She never mentions her husband’s by name… therefore there’s no actual proof it was Gabriel.

In one of the early 1897 episode (the arrival of Edward Collins) he states that his grandfather died 34 years earlier… making date 1863. Yet we saw Gabriel die in 1840 as well. Further proof that the 1897 characters are not Gabriel’s direct descendant’s.

The more likely answer is that sometime after 1840, Tad Collins returned to Collinwood. We know that he inherited the Collins fortune from Daniel Collins. It makes sense that he would name one of his sons after his favorite uncle, Quentin.

So who is Old Edith? It’s easier for me to believe she is either Daphne (using her middle name Edith perhaps), or the first Quentin’s wife after Daphne died.

Another new Black Ops oc 🥰 I love her already

She’s a trauma surgeon, works with Eddie, and is good friends with her and Phuong and the boys 😌 She’s also trans 👌

Fun fact: The inspiration for her was this video