Once again it's either scary or reassuring how much my thoughts are the same as they were five years ago. Today I read Gothick's mention of The Collector with Terence Stamp and Samantha Eggar, and I thought: "Hmm, Terence Stamp." Sure enough, in my post after Gothick's five years ago, I mentioned Terence Stamp. And I don't remember noticing five years ago, as I did today, all the references to madness in this episode - but I talked about them then. All this business about people getting more out of their experiences as they grow older may be utter hogwash. They don't see more; they've just forgotten what they saw before.
It isn't all the same, however. Previously I had accepted the idea that somehow it was Barnabas's conscience that brought Sarah into play, but today I started wondering if it was Josette that did it. I don't know why Josette would have waited so long to act. Maybe she sort of liked the idea of being re-created, until Maggie started to fight back seriously. Still, the idea of Josette's involvement grows, I assume, out of my having seen the pre-Barnabas episodes, which I hadn't done five years ago. Five years from now, when the Watching Project comes around to these episodes again, I daresay I'll be writing, "Been there, done that, nothing more to say." Never mind. I'll still love it.