I guess that was James Storm doing the voiceover, and I wish it hadn't been. When Quentin was a non-speaking ghost, David Selby never did a voiceover, and his voice was a lovely surprise when we finally heard it in episode 701. I wonder if David Selby and James Storm compared notes about the experience of being a malevolent non-speaking ghost.
As Gerard was menacing Quentin, and as I was thinking about Selby and Storm comparing notes, I was also thinking: "This is the very same Quentin that we saw in 1897 when he was so conniving and manipulative." It was hard to believe. Poor Quentin, 125 years old and bereft of whatever wisdom he might have picked up during those 125 years, and apparently doomed to be insane for all eternity because of his portrait.
I felt for Barnabas in the foyer at Collinwood, after Quentin ran out the door, when Julia was falling apart. I know what it's like to be one person dealing with two people who aren't all they should be. And then later on, in the Old House, Julia recovered herself and was giving Barnabas encouragement, which was nice.
Did Julia attend dancing school as a child? She doesn't seem like the sort of person who would know a minuet when she saw one. The last time I saw this episode, I looked up the minuet on the internet, because I didn't know the steps. Today I was hoping to notice some distinctively minuettish movements, but all I saw were some bows. Oh, well, the internet was still in an extreme primordial stage in 1970, so we can't expect David Henesy and Kathy Cody to have known how to do the minuet.
