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« on: February 16, 2015, 05:42:46 AM »
DarkLady-- I guess DS really has been pretty consistent about showing vampires as not eating or drinking, and also showing that human Barnabas does, even while never, ever (to my knowledge) referring to the fact in words, in any way. Last time I watched Barnabas's early days (in the WP, which I have just now completed a full cycle of!), I noted him in the Blue Whale, with a glass of something he'd ordered, coming close to putting it to his lips two or three times, yet never actually drinking... And we shouldn't be impatient with the mere humans of Collinsport for never noticing, since I think that most of us as viewers didn't (except for DL, well done!).
"Gesso", a word I haven't heard for 30 + years possibly. Did we call it that? I majored in painting/drawing. I was actually trying and failing to remember the word for the white pre-paint covering of a canvas, once very familiar to me.
It's possible that the writers/producers did think through these plot-simplifying short-cuts. We sometimes assume a sort of crass obliviousness on their parts, and to TV makers in general, but look how complicated they have made the plots when they wanted them to be... Maybe someone said, look, Charipansy is psychic, so in the midst of these intuitive blasts of data she's receiving about the supernatural truths around her, without its showing onscreen, she also received the importance and significance of Tate's portrait of Q (which she witnessed a bit as Charity) ... and the true nature of who and what Barnabas really is... including that he means well, means to help Quentin and the family, and... this is the tricky part... really liked Carl and was just a little panicky that day...
With all of these matters, also factor in that DS writers seem to have a habit of not spelling a lot of things out, whereas in any other show, they would have been...