6366
« on: August 26, 2015, 05:54:07 PM »
Selby VO. Roger's home! I had been dead sure that Louis's reaction to the zombies had been cringingly "unacted", as if LE couldn't be bothered, because DS had become too ridiculous for him. With this viewing, it turns out I was wrong, he acts it with believable concern and shock. One problem remains, though, the lack of reaction time. His "Oh my God" comes out of his mouth without any pause to take any of it in. All I can think is that this is Roger's reaction time with seeing simple thuglike intruders in Collinwood. If he'd had any glimmering that these were walking dead men, he'd have sputtered for a few seconds, tongue-tied.
The plans have already changed. Roger is instantly knocked unconscious and left there, not killed as was Jeb's plan for all five victims. Welcome back, millionnaire monotone playboy dufus and uninspired dresser Skyler Rumson! When Julia was pumping Sky for info, I liked it when he'd led her almost to the idea of treating Jeb, then told her "Ask one more question." It was only one question away, but Julia doesn't get it.
Julia sees the Leviathan. It/Jeb has an unexplained coffin in his/its Room. Julia sees him change back to Jeb.
Quentin, Sky and Roger... Sky's an errand boy now. The moment Sky arrives, Quentin puts it together fast what a pregnant meeting this is, what with Angelique's two ex's and ex-fiancee in the same room... but doesn't say so out loud. Big DS blooper (or maybe it's messy but just what should happen) when Selby knocks stuff over, drawing a sword on Rumson, just as he did in that same room in 1897, to Barnabas. Quentin, still engaged, on top of things, very clever. I wish Quentin had continued to serve in this sort of role in present-day DS.
Julia starts her Leviathan research. The audience is supposed to pick up on the fact that Julia is going through the motions, just stalling, and considers it too obviously ridiculous and impossible a medical task, but Jeb doesn't pick up on this. I have trouble with that. If we can tell, so should he. With the acting, they let us know a character is lying to the other, as if we the audience have been nudged in the ribs, and let in on the secret. That kind of acting makes it seem as if the other character isn't very bright for not getting it. Maybe Jeb isn't, but you know what I mean, I think.
Q charges in to the carriage house, and we find out what the coffin was for. Q is put in coffin. Jeb says to zombies, "He will soon join you." Uh oh, Quentin's going to be a zombie again! Only on DS...
It hit me that the villain of this storyline isn't a Lovecraftian creature, but the threatening image of the day: the punkish, tough, rebellious, young man, with a problem with authority. That's who the middle aged people feared, and anyone vaguely unconventional or hippie-like was dumped automatically into this category. No peaceful hippies with challenging ideas on TV, just this threatening image, expressing the idea that society was going to hell because of all those young people.
Quentin is buried alive. End.