I knew there was a joke there, Lydia, when Josette just stood there pointing, but I never got there. I was thinking about David's apparent, utter inability to get what a pointing finger means... much as with dogs, I think. Our family dog would just stand there, sniffing the end of your index finger, wondering what the frustrated human noises were all about...
Diana Millay held the slate this time, with a nice pregnant smile... Guthrie cares slightly more about knowing the undead (Laura, face-to-face in her cottage) than he does about the prospect of possibly becoming one of the dead, because of his nosing around, by which point he could probably get a few of his questions answered anyway... I like Dr. Guthrie here in this scene, for the first time. It's very sad, as if he knows something bad's going to happen. I wonder if he has a history of playing it safe, over and over, resulting in a professional career with no definite proof of the supernatural. He may have decided that he's going all the way this time, no matter what the risk, because whatever happens, he has to know. The earlier bravado's gone, from their earlier face-off, replaced by resignation.
I wonder if the makers of DS were floored at seeing this ep onscreen, the way the music and events and pacing and effects came together, and it may have been a revelation as to what they were really capable of. I'm thinking of the slow scenes with little or no dialogue, of Laura affecting Guthrie, Laura's eyes in the fire...
